Padisha's Dance (Moore, Tryll; 85 days left)

[Anastasia]

Awesome. Paste me the low down you have on it real quick? (You did have one, right? I want to make sure neither of us is forgetting anything.)

[Yuthirin]

On the golem or the ritual plan?

[Anastasia]

Whichever you're doing next. Your last line confuzzled me a bit since I didn't realize you were talking about two different things.

[Yuthirin]

Okay.

Plan Ritual
Tryll and Calleigh both plan to undergo the ritual, as there don't seem to be any drawbacks to the ritual's failure. As far as I can tell, it either works or does not.
Depending on how the ritual is set up, the essences will be introduced at the appropriate times.
Tryll: Squid, Chaos, Good, & Water
Calleigh: Good, Chaos, Humor, & Color

With any luck, the additional work put in will allow either for better success, increased power granted, or both.

- The ritual is complex. It will require a great deal of work to set up. It requires the following: 50,000 gold in reagents, a bit of blood from the creature (or similar bodily fluid if the creature does not have blood) and one week of preparations and purifications.

- The ritual itself will require several K:A, K:P and Spellcraft checks. Failure results in the ritual failing and the reagents being wasted. The person conducting the ritual does not need to be the person seeking to become a paragon.

- The goal of the ritual is to define yourself as a paragon. As such, you must have what you represent as a paragon prepared and distilled to its utmost.

- The ritual is not guaranteed to work. Even if you succeed on everything, the question may not be sufficiently meaningful to your race. Alternately, there may be another paragon who already covers this. If so, you will learn the name of the paragon and the plane he is on. Finally, sometimes the ritual simply fails for reasons the author isn't certain of. It's hard to tell if a proposed question was not meaningful enough or if an unseen factor did it, after all.

- If they are available, taking levels in a racial paragon class (such as human paragon) helps somewhat, but it doe snot guarantee success.

In addition, the ritual will cost 50k in reagents and a week in prep time. Normally we would write this off, but time is rather valuable right now, so it's not something we can hand-wave anymore.

I don't know what the check DCs are, so I'll either need to borrow Moore's Knowledge Crystal or acquire one of my own. Seeing as how I only have 57k at the moment (before loot), I'm a bit short. Surru owes me money though, so there's that.

Plan Golem
So while we have the materials for the golem, there's still two pieces we absolutely need.

1. The work being put in. It'll take multiple people and it's frankly far too large for even our resident megapixie to do all on her own. MY hope is to recruit Latha and her forgers to aid us in working it.
2. It's gonna need goldenfire. Lots of it. And the only place we're gonna get it is Lathander. And I'm pretty sure Latha is the go-to person for working with it at this point.

The point of the golem is

1. Big hulking machine bent on destroying evil
2. Being a big ol target
3. Being infused with goldenfire, it is a direct conduit for Lathander's power. Lifasa hasn't seen Lathander's touch since Hell invaded. The ultimate point of the golem is for it to physically bear Lathander's power back onto Lifasa, allowing him to spread his power over the plane once again. Even in a limited capacity, this would be huge.


It would probably be wise to get the golem started first, as it'll take time. The entire golem project hinges on Lathander's cooperation, or else it loses a huge amount of power and has to be reworked. I could do it, but I'd rather have it be an awesome Lanthander engine of the sun.

[Nephrite]

Moore can help out with the checks also if needed / wanted. He could also go to Lathander's realm while Tryll does his preparations.

[Anastasia]

Looks good. So upshot is that golem first?

[Yuthirin]

Yeah, golem first. Construction will take significant time, and we can be in a week in downtime for it.

[Anastasia]

Okay. Where are you at on that mechanically?

[Yuthirin]

The golem? How do you mean? Like how the creature's stat sheet is done?

[Nephrite]

I don't think there was ever a consensus on the Dune version of the golem vs. the Yuth version of the golem.

[Anastasia]

Yeah, that. If you're gonna build it you do need a stat block.

[Yuthirin]

Let's hash it out tomorrow then.

[Nephrite]

Worst case scenario we can probably proceed with meeting Latha and explaining that we need goldenfire IC while the details for it are hashed out in nagging or wherever.

[Anastasia]

We could do stuff like that, yeah. Waiting on Yuth here.

[Yuthirin]

I'll hash out a final draft of it today, but it'll probably take an hour or two. We could do the roleplay in the mean time.