Now the question is, what would the canny little bugger do with it? Give it to someone else? Send it nicely packaged to a personal enemy? Simply keep it to increase the fear and awe already surrounding her august presence?
I'd like to have her plan ready in case my PC's screw up and actually deliver it to her...
"Hmm... first of all I wouldn't make any public comments about having it or not. However I'd make sure to not do anything to prevent the spread of the rumors that might pop up surround that. If asked directly later I'd deny it of course."
"Secondly I wouldn't have it in Sigil. I don't care to tempt The Lady quite that much, I'd like to think that I've learned from Darkwood and every other prime sod who challanged Her Serenity and failed. Uh uh, not me, not now."
"As soon as the rumors spread enough, start putting out feelers for interested parties while at the same time finding out how the bugger actually works. Make three of them and sell two after grudgingly admitting to having the second one when the enemies of the first buyer come a'knocking. The 3rd one is for whatever the future brings."
"Step 3, profit."
"Now someone get me a cowboy hat to wave around while sitting on top of the little carnage maker."
The Nuclear.......
Missile......
at least would be the first thing in my mind...
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Originally posted by Choleric Psion
I've got a better idea. DON'T GIVE A NUKE TO A 'LOTH! DON'T EVEN BRING MODERN WEAPON INTO YOUR ADVENUTRE! No matter what it's been my experaince that modern weapons in fantasy settings are bad ideas.
Choleric Psion: I've had the opposite experience, sorry.
I assume you don't want to hear about the spinagons with laser-rifles that actually guard the thing? :D
How about mezzoloths on motercycles with katanas?
And some trolls with machine guns and some cipher phys ads and dragons and some elves and native americans and ... oh drek, I'm getting my slang and cant crossed along with my campaign settings... ;)
I don't want to be the one on the recieving end of her cryptic threat: "You have no chance to survive. Make your time."
Originally posted by Shemeska the Marauder
Please tell me there were Cornugons with monofiliment whips involved as well?
How about mezzoloths on motercycles with katanas?
And some trolls with machine guns and some cipher phys ads and dragons and some elves and native americans and ... oh drek, I'm getting my slang and cant crossed along with my campaign settings... ;)
Nah, only a baatezu mining/recovery operation on Thuldanin, (on the cube known as Nattahnam) that has recovered some strange weapons that seems to pierce tanar'ri hides pretty easily... and these two nifty boxes with strange symbols on them... One unfortunately detonetated prematurely though...
Originally posted by Shemeska the Marauder
And some trolls with machine guns and some cipher phys ads and dragons and some elves and native americans and ... oh drek, I'm getting my slang and cant crossed along with my campaign settings... ;)
;) *catchs reference to shadow run*
was a very nice RPG game.
Originally posted by CaoSlayer
;) *catchs reference to shadow run*
was a very nice RPG game.
Indeed, I adore that setting
Originally posted by CaoSlayer
;) *catchs reference to shadow run*
was a very nice RPG game.
Still is.
Originally posted by Drinnik Shoehorn
Still is.
Indeed it is, I just played in an SR oneshot pickup game a few weeks ago, and last year was in a campaign (which has since gone over to PbEM because the DM moved cross country but we wanted to still play).
Anyways, back on topic a bit here. I can just image the Tanar'ri with the bomb, the Yugoloths with chemical and biological weapons tailored to their enemies, and the Baatezu with a new world order mentality and thought control on a massive and intimate level. *grin* That would be fun...
Originally posted by mrgoat
So, television is all the Baatezu's fault? They *are* evil, aren't they.
Well, it's like the fiends said:
" GREB
I just find your laissez-faire style
to be as lame and tedious as the souls
you’re destroying. I mean, what’s the
point of being a devil if you’re not
having any fun?
BLURK
I’m afraid I’m familiar with your
methods, and I find them to be just as
crass and unpoetic.
GREB
Yeah, like an atom bomb. There’s
another plus with my technique: mass
damnation. I just did a job that
damaged millions of souls with one big
shh-bang!
TOBY
How could you manage that?
GREB
Simply by using the instruments that
Satan himself created for that very
purpose ..."
-- Millennium, Episode 2X21, "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me"
Naturally, Greb's talking about television.
Of course, I think television is the work of the yugoloths. Who else would invent such a soul-killing media?
In fact, somewhere I read the suggestion that Nybbas, Demon Prince of the Media, from In Nomine, be ported into Planescape as an ultroloth. A very interesting idea, I think.
(And if the yugoloths *were* the ones behind television, I sure a certain arcanaloth has the ego and presence to be a major star - maybe the lead anchor of the Yugoloth Propag-- ...er, News Network.)
Television, on the other hand, is the opiate of the masses. It's a nearly perfect method of control of the general views of an enitre populace, as long as it gets there first and solidifies it's claims of credibility, wether founded or not.
I'm suprised Yugoloths didn't invent it in the real world. Except, you know, there aren't any know yugoloths in real life. Pity, that.
I think Shemeska would make illusionary copies and sell them to faction leaders and then watch them try to vaporize each other. Or perhaps sell it to a certain oddities shop with a delay timer, just to clear up some competition.
Shadowrun was indeed cool. Has anyone seen this (rather disjointed) idea for d20 Shadowrun?.
I agree, though, that modern weapons are woefully out-of-place in a fantasy game. Especially if you keep everyone at a normal technology level. Case-in-point: the goblins in Dungeon Seige. As you looted their tunnels, you found flamethrowers, "lightning guns," grenade lanchers, and machineguns. Then you found tesla coils that shot bolts at you a la Command and Conquer, and mechanical sentries- robots. The worst was that you could walk out of the caves with as many guns as you could find and carry. It might be interesting to do a futuristic fantasy game, or something, but just putting nuclear weapons and lasers into standard Planescape just makes the game weird, and I would think would make the players take it less seriously.
Originally posted by mrgoat
I'm suprised Yugoloths didn't invent it in the real world. Except, you know, there aren't any know yugoloths in real life. Pity, that.
Oh aren't there? I had this really mean math teacher back in junior high... what was her name? Mrs. Shemska, or something like that. And she had the weirdest hat. It was more like a tiara or something, but it was made of ivy, from the look of it. Anyway, I think she must have been a mezzoloth or something, because she was really vicious.
Originally posted by Factol Rhys
But does it have to be nukes and lasers? I mean, I think it would just work better for the setting if it were different. Make it work the same, whatever, but don't have it be nukes and lasers. Make it a gauntlet that fires bolts of fire, or... well the nuke could still be a huge ball of fire that wipes cities off the map, but I just think it's a little contrived to grab a blaster when your opponents are using shortbows.
It'll be a box, with a strange symbol on it. That goes "BOOOM!" easily.
And teh point is that it's supposed to be non-magical, and thus revolutionary.
In a hollow cube in the module 'Doors to the Unknown' there was something similar, a gigantic bomb made on a world where wizards warred with a technologically advanced society that had rejected magic.
If the PCs in that adventure approach it, it turned on and asked them if they were a mage or not. If they identified them as a mage it announced "Enemy mage, commence countdown" or something similar, and then would explode. If they answered no, it would announce "Enemy civilian, commence countdown" and do the same.
*chuckle*
That cube was interesting, what with the dabus rebus symbols carved into iron and the suggestively 'bladed' artifact that couldn't be touched without electrocucting or otherwise killing the person who tried... love that module.
Originally posted by Arilou_skiff
Nah, only a baatezu mining/recovery operation on Thuldanin, (on the cube known as Nattahnam) that has recovered some strange weapons that seems to pierce tanar'ri hides pretty easily... and these two nifty boxes with strange symbols on them... One unfortunately detonetated prematurely though...
Ooooo...you're giving me the most wicked of ideas!
-Qit
Originally posted by Arilou_skiff
Nah, only a baatezu mining/recovery operation on Thuldanin, (on the cube known as Nattahnam) that has recovered some strange weapons that seems to pierce tanar'ri hides pretty easily... and these two nifty boxes with strange symbols on them... One unfortunately detonetated prematurely though...
Ok, I'm getting slow. I only now noticed the 'Manhattan' reference. *chuckle* Shortly thereafter we'll have a trinity test somewhere in Phlegethos, and while watching the explosion from safety down in Cania, Mephistopheles says "I have become death, destroyer of worlds... cool!"
The Tanar'ri can only exclaim, "We have GOT to get us some of those!"
"... and then Pentar woke up. 'That one's going in my dream journal.'"