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Quote from: Strongpoint on December 29, 2016, 10:05:11 pm

Nope, lesser demons are unreliable

Quote from: Xantalos on December 30, 2016, 12:04:29 am

Quote from: Detoxicated on December 29, 2016, 10:22:38 pm

Well, we could just send em out spreading havoc, I wanna see some of that stuff at one point.

We will, but later. Remember, an average demon has a mental and physical strength of 50. Currently, powerwise, we qualify as a lesser demon ourselves, if a fairly strong one.

So - we are unreliable ... let's fix that in a convenient way.
1: We are in a castle - let's look for the dungeons - see if there are some spirits of falsely imprisoned people there and use a bit of power to corrupt them into poltergeists. Have them haunt the surroundings - like the classical bleeding walls and moving items tricks. Have our priests spread dark incense and just tell the geists to find a new target. of course the priests will be handsomely paid...
2: There might be laws about people required to pay taxes to the church. Abolish them or work towards abolishing them.
3: Have your loyal servants be branded, so they have no way back and are left alone by the Brutewolves.Then have them retrieve the resources the brutewolves have gathered. The bones of people killed mercilessly and left for dead to a long and painful death make for a good throne material. use it as a focus to take the evil in.
4: do any of your servants have children? introduce the easily impressible children to the new way. Give all of them a minor "blessing" making them more susceptible to the temptations of evil and grow unnaturally strong if evil is done by them. Give them some lovely pets. Then after a month tell them to kill and eat them.
5: see if there are any prophecies around. We might need to change fate if any of them include some orphan slaying a demon lord. Just corrupt any orphan into an agent if there is one like that.

Hmm. All of these (and several other proposals in-thread) seem like real good long or medium-term proposals, if not ones we're in position to immediately execute. Anyone able to set up a googledocs page accessible to anyone? We can set our ideas there if we like and then extract them later for use in Novglkgnvn's plans.

Well, we could just send em out spreading havoc, I wanna see some of that stuff at one point.

We will, but later. Remember, an average demon has a mental and physical strength of 50. Currently, powerwise, we qualify as a lesser demon ourselves, if a fairly strong one.

Hmm. I'm torn between overtaxation and speaking out against the priests.
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Ah, we have some converted priests still, and turning them against us might lead to a bit more attention than we need.

Overtax the peasantry, leading to starvation and dissent.

You shall work on corrupting the courtiers of the castle.

You decide it's a bad idea to burn down Nuulyd.

The courtiers may seem unimportant, but they control the gossip and rumours of the place. With them under our control not only will we prevent the Duke from becoming isolated, which isn't what I want for him personally, but we'll maintain a facade of normality while the court slides ever deeper into darkness.

how large is the village of Brylib?

Edit: Another idea: how about assassinating the high priest?  This should fuel Duke's paranoia and it is a nice way to use this empty body

Eh, I don't think we need to do that right now - if we were on a tight schedule and needed to turn the Duke quickly, then sure, but seeing as we can apparently puppet him, he'll be useful for corrupting lesser priests under his purview.

Remember, stay focused. The duke is the centerpiece of all our efforts here, so we have to have our efforts synergize. I suggest having Mischa say he should talk to us, and focus on corrupting the Duke's advisors.

Interesting!

You will, to focus more on corrupting the Duke. He will surely come around when his prayers to Nokluvgn start giving tangible rewards, and you will be around to ensure he knows of the conspiracies his prayer has protected him from...

The New Way in Nuulyd shall focus on the more important members of the community in recruitment, who will be more able to influence the town to evil in their own right.

Seed planted successfully, time to move on I'm thinking. We've got a foothold in the Duke, now it's imperative that we corrupt him so he can start trickling it down to his subordinates.

"Well. Of course I couldn't go like five minutes without random cosmic powers trying to fuck about in my business. Well. Who needs a whuppin today, I wonder?

Also I should note that I've drastically underestimated these guys' tech base, I didn't think they knew what rubber was. Good stuff."

Approach this central figure and see who's disrupting the fabric of reality today.

"Ah, it's you. Good to see you again. What've you found out in the hells?"

'Sup Santa!