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[Kashyyk]

We spoke about a Crab unit in discord, so here is my offering. I'd want to do these, or something like it as practice for the Hashmal.

In a previous age, the coast that is now Muu's home was claimed by another Avatar. In their bid for victory, they had polluted the waters near the coast and caused all manner of mutations to occur. Most quickly died out, but one that survived to some extent were a species of Crab that quickly lost its ungainly size whilst retaining that ancestral memory.

When Muu called to the Ocean for aid, the children of these Crabs answered. Of bestial intelligence, they still understood, instinctively, that they must once more fight in the name of Good. They marched out of the waters and with Muu's blessing and a pulse of Good, they regained their great (but variable) size. At their smallest they are the size of a hunting dog, whilst others could match a cart horse, their shells are as hard as iron, and their pincers once more faithful to the name of Rock-Crusher Crabs.

And have some votes.

Actually Angles
Mwynneslri, Mother of Light: (0)
Muu, The Twisting Heaven: (3) TricMagic, Failbird, Kashyyk

Designs
Eternal Servants: (0)
Gift of the Tullikan: (0)
Hashmal, the Angelic Host of <Angel>: (0)
Forge of Cleansing: (2) Failbird, TricMagic
Goats of Golgotha: (1)  Kashyyk
Sea Servants: (3) TricMagic, Failbird, Kashyyk

[TricMagic]

Revision(hoping for difficulty check)
Ironscale Cloth Armor

Using the Forge of Cleansing, we take a bit of iron, and dip it in. Once softened, we used a knife and small hammer to cut/press it, and slowly carve it out into a shaped scale. Once hardened, we then take iron we've prepared, dip it in the lake and pound it into the resulting mold,. Done many times, we gather many Ironscales, submerge them for but a small while, and then sew them into woolen cloth, creating a length of scale cloth armor which we can use for our forces. This particular practice is slow but allows us to equip our forces with scale mail. An interesting note is that we can make many molds, and since the metal isn't hot it conforms to the mold itself. Once hardened back to iron-consistency, it can be removed with ease. While dipping the scales beforehand and removing before they fully soften allows one to use an iron sewing needle to poke holes in said scales. It's a process pretty much anyone can do once molds are made, the only thing needed is time and iron.


tldr. Make molds, Pound iron into mold. Sew into cloth. More likely to go on specific forces. Like Goat-Cav and Archers. And maybe mages, though it's a bit too heavy for our acolytes to move quickly. As a revision it's may only end up on units we specifically designate get it Nuke? So goat-cav if we make it after this. Might be better for a full design just to get everyone it, but that's also a bit too expensive and not actually optimal?

[m1895]

Actually Angles
Mwynneslri, Mother of Light: (0)
Muu, The Twisting Heaven: (4) TricMagic, Failbird, Kashyyk, m1895

Designs
Eternal Servants: (1) Kashyyk
Gift of the Tullikan: (0)
Hashmal, the Angelic Host of <Angel>: (0)
Forge of Cleansing: (3) Failbird, TricMagic, m1895
Goats of Golgotha: (0)
Sea Servants: (3) TricMagic, Failbird, m1895

[TricMagic]

Fixes again.

Actually Angles
Mwynneslri, Mother of Light: (0)
Muu, The Twisting Heaven: (4) TricMagic, Failbird, Kashyyk, m1895

Designs
Eternal Servants: (0)
Gift of the Tullikan: (0)
Hashmal, the Angelic Host of <Angel>: (0)
Forge of Cleansing: (3) Failbird, TricMagic, m1895
Goats of Golgotha: (1) Kashyyk
Sea Servants: (3) TricMagic, Failbird, m1895

[Failbird105]

Actually Angles
Mwynneslri, Mother of Light: (0)
Muu, The Twisting Heaven: (4) TricMagic, Failbird, Kashyyk, m1895

Designs
Eternal Servants: (0)
Gift of the Tullikan: (0)
Hashmal, the Angelic Host of <Angel>: (0)
Forge of Cleansing: (3) Failbird, TricMagic, m1895
Goats of Golgotha: (1) Kashyyk
Sea Servants: (4) TricMagic, Failbird, Kashyyk, m1895

Fixed the fixes

[TricMagic]

Loaves of Love
A special recipe made with water blessed with the Goodwill of Muu, the dough is baked into bread with bits of succulent fish for protein, and then have our cultists hand them out to the poor and hungry. The bread is filled with Goodwill, filling their hungry stomachs and suffusing them with Good feelings, and the thought that they should help others out too. So that when we go asking, they answer the nice bread people, and we can get them to spread the Goodwill along. And the bread. Everyone benefits, and we have some new converts who are addicted to the feeling of Goodwill. Helping people feels good after all. One good turn deserves another.


As an example influence design. May cause slight mutations to the brain.  Or dopamine, one or the other. Or both.
Fail, you want to write the egg/tentacle example?

[Failbird105]

Design Proposal:
Worms of Muu- subtle version
Muu knows that in order to grow and spread her Heaven throughout the world, she must first spread the word and love of her cult. To that end, she has chosen to take a subtle but direct approach. A small worm, so small its eggs aren't even visible. The worms eggs hatch in the body after being ingested, and from there the worm will take root, burrowing into the body.

From here, they simply live. As the host goes about their lives, little will change. The worm will get hungry, and mess with the Hosts mind, they'll start to feel subtly worse. Like they woke up just a little off today. The effect will grow gradually, until the worm simply starves. Unless, the host does a sufficient act of Good. Small acts of charity, holding open doors for others, taking care of their environment, etc. You see, the worm feeds on Good, and when the host is good, the worm, no longer hungry, stops messing with the hosts body, instead producing subtle positive feelings.

The hosts start to feel better the more Good they do. Pushing them to be more charitable, more helpful, and more friendly towards others. It is from there that the cultists of Muu, who were previously subtly seeding these eggs in water supplies and food donations, reach out to them and ask if they want to be part of a Greater Good, thus bringing them into the fold.

The worms do of course have weaknesses. As we've already mentioned they can starve if not fed for over a week, but more noticeably is that those who are already infused with the touch of Evil, or bathed in its power regularly, will rapidly purge such worms from their body before they can fill more than slightly ill.


Worms of Muu- more overt version
Muu knows that in order to grow and spread her Heaven throughout the world, she must first spread the word and love of her cult. To that end, she has chosen to take a more direct approach aimed at the wealthier and nobler. A small worm, with small, black, delicious eggs. The eggs are sold as a form of caviar, a delicacy, to those who are extravagant and wealthy. The eggs hatch in the body after being ingested, and from there the worm will take root, burrowing into the body.

From here, they simply live. As the host goes about their lives, little will change. The worm will get hungry, and mess with the Hosts mind, they'll start to feel subtly worse. Like they woke up just a little off today. The effect will grow gradually, until the worm simply starves. Unless, the host does a sufficient act of Good. Small acts of charity, holding open doors for others, taking care of their environment, etc. You see, the worm feeds on Good, and when the host is good, the worm, no longer hungry, stops messing with the hosts body, instead producing subtle positive feelings.

The hosts start to feel better the more Good they do. Pushing them to be more charitable, more helpful, and more friendly towards others. It is from there that the cultists of Muu, who had previously sold said eggs, reach out to them and ask if they want to be part of a Greater Good, thus bringing them into the fold.

The worms do of course have weaknesses. As we've already mentioned they can starve if not fed for over a week, but more noticeably is that those who are already infused with the touch of Evil, or bathed in its power regularly, will rapidly purge such worms from their body before they can fill more than slightly ill.

[m1895]

Legacy of The Norfolk
The Norfolk were sea raiders that regularly attacked along the coast long before Muu awoke. While they have not come to these shores in many years, their presence has left its mark, and not just with the cultural acceptance of tattooing and regular baths.
Some of our older cultists were trained to fend off the raiders, and while our current militia fights in the style more traditional of inlanders, the old coastal militias fought with axe and shield, counter-charging the raiders while they were still dismounting from their boats and forcing them back into the sea. Muu has decided soldiers trained in this style would fit quite well with her doctrine, so training of the next generation has begun.
The fierceness required to see the charge through naturally means more cultists washout from training, so a unit of axemen is noticeably smaller than the current militia.
For dress, the only real piece of uniform kit the have is a set of dyed blue puttees, to be wrapped herringbone style with leather low boots. The rest of their clothing varies based on the local clime. For instance, wearing a heavy coat in mayfolk to keep off the cold and damp is a necessity, but would be absurd to wear in a desert.

[NUKE9.13]

Sea Bone Charms
The sailors of Mayfolk hold a great deal of superstitions regarding symbols carved in bone, with the most coveted being made of whalebone.
Of course any wizard or scholar can tell you this is just superstition. That the charms cannot protect you from storm and shipwreck, and yet, when Muu looks upon them she gets a strange feeling of deja vu, like a half-remembered dream. Working with local scrimshanders and her initiates, Muu was able reconstruct the half-dreamed script, at least on some small level, giving us this meagre boon.
The simple charms can be made with fishbone, and are only about as powerful as our novice ward, but they can be churned out in remarkable quantities, and one can wear multiple of them if need be.

The difficulty here depends on whether the charms are intended to be consumable or reusable.
Consumable: Easy, Uncommon (about 1/5th of your forces would have access to them). It's an existing spell, put into a different format.
Reusable: Hard, Uncommon. Though it's a simple spell, there's additional work needed to make the charm capable of recharging/resetting.

In a previous age, the coast that is now Muu's home was claimed by another Avatar. In their bid for victory, they had polluted the waters near the coast and caused all manner of mutations to occur. Most quickly died out, but one that survived to some extent were a species of Crab that quickly lost its ungainly size whilst retaining that ancestral memory.

When Muu called to the Ocean for aid, the children of these Crabs answered. Of bestial intelligence, they still understood, instinctively, that they must once more fight in the name of Good. They marched out of the waters and with Muu's blessing and a pulse of Good, they regained their great (but variable) size. At their smallest they are the size of a hunting dog, whilst others could match a cart horse, their shells are as hard as iron, and their pincers once more faithful to the name of Rock-Crusher Crabs.

Large crabs: Normal
Large heavily armoured crabs: Hard
Large heavily armoured armour-crushing crabs: Very Hard. Uncommon, medium unit size. Also likely to have unexpected mutations at lower rolls.

Revision(hoping for difficulty check)
Ironscale Cloth Armor

Not doing revision difficulty checks yet, since those would obviously be conditional on what you do in the design phase.

Loaves of Love

Easy, Common.

Worms of Muu- subtle version

Delightful. The same basic idea as the Loaves, but a more elaborate process that clearly leaves the door open for more advanced applications. Normal, Uncommon.

Worms of Muu- more overt version

Same as the subtle version.

Legacy of The Norfolk

Basic training and a very modest equipment upgrade, combined with decreased unit size- Easy, Common, ~40 unit size.

[Kashyyk]

I've been thinking about influence options. This one has a bit of a Chridtmas Carol vibe, but I thought it would be a fun Uncommon/Rare way to turn nobility to our side.

The Mistress/Servant relationship is a two way bond, and one Muu and her followers understand and respect. Most of the mortal kingdoms are inflicted with an imbalance that goes against this natural Order, with the Servant bearing the brunt of the cost, and seeing little of the benefit.

In their journeys, our missionaries will no doubt hear of these grievances, and have been taught a ritual to right this wrong and summon back the spirits of those who have been mistreated. These Spirits will be charged with following the Master who has wronged them, whispering in their ear and guiding them to the Right and Good path.

Naturally, the type who will allow these misdeeds to happen are not likely to listen to strange words, but when multiple Spirits come together they will be able to exert greater pressure. Moving objects, lengthening the shadows, creating apparitions, and twisting dreams to nightmares. Those who still resist the attentions of the Spirits will slowly be driven mad as they are haunted by their own Misdeeds.

[EuchreJack]

Vote: Forge of Cleansing & Loaves of Love

[TricMagic]

Actually Angles
Mwynneslri, Mother of Light: (0)
Muu, The Twisting Heaven: (4) TricMagic, Failbird, Kashyyk, m1895

Designs
Eternal Servants: (0)
Gift of the Tullikan: (0)
Hashmal, the Angelic Host of <Angel>: (0)
Forge of Cleansing: (4) Failbird, TricMagic, m1895, EuchreJack
Goats of Golgotha: (1) Kashyyk
Sea Servants: (4) TricMagic, Failbird, Kashyyk, m1895
Subtle Worms: (1) EuchreJack

Of note Jack, Loaves likely won't get voted since worms are normal. Thanks for the support though. (want to vote Muu too?)
Sea Servants are basically support in combat and at home.

[EuchreJack]

Eh, sure
Change vote from Loaves to Worms (subtle)

[Happerry]

Here's something for the future.

Liquid Light Elemental
By way of trapping an expansive amount of blessed water between a large array of silver mirrors that concentrate and refract the light of the sun, moon, and stars through the water it is possible to infuse water with the very nature of light. This does, of course, result in most of the water 'boiling off' during the process, which takes a considerable amount of time to undergo and therefor has a limited production rate. But the resulting 'Liquidized Light' can then be put to use, when gathered in sufficient amounts (multiple production runs are generally needed) to create the mystical creation known as a Liquid Light Elemental.

By inserting a central core of crystalized goodness into said sufficient amount of liquid light and infusing it with the desire to serve our most holy angel we can create what amounts to a floating shroud of semi-solid light capable of sublimating things it makes physical contact with (if at a somewhat slow rate) into non-liquid normal light, as well as being able to make the normal crushing, battering, and lashing strikes a normal water elemental is known to make.

[EuchreJack]

Here's something for the future.

Liquid Light Elemental
By way of trapping an expansive amount of blessed water between a large array of silver mirrors that concentrate and refract the light of the sun, moon, and stars through the water it is possible to infuse water with the very nature of light. This does, of course, result in most of the water 'boiling off' during the process, which takes a considerable amount of time to undergo and therefor has a limited production rate. But the resulting 'Liquidized Light' can then be put to use, when gathered in sufficient amounts (multiple production runs are generally needed) to create the mystical creation known as a Liquid Light Elemental.

By inserting a central core of crystalized goodness into said sufficient amount of liquid light and infusing it with the desire to serve our most holy angel we can create what amounts to a floating shroud of semi-solid light capable of sublimating things it makes physical contact with (if at a somewhat slow rate) into non-liquid normal light, as well as being able to make the normal crushing, battering, and lashing strikes a normal water elemental is known to make.

Could we combine this with the Forge somehow?
EDIT: Nevermind, they probably work better as separate components that can be used together.