New spell.
Perhaps something that rains heals down upon you enemies and you allies.

>>333229
hmmm... yeah, lets set totems to ress their dead for us on their lands.

they dont want it? too bad, lets hide that shit or give them as a welcoming gift.

>>333236
New spells. Moving a phylactry isn't going to be useful to you right now. Undead hordes will still be bearing down on your tower, lots of people will still die. It will be a good thing to know later on, but right now it's not that important.

New spells that can be applied to the current situation and destroy the enemy is useful though, very useful.

The dude has a spell or item that makes things that die in anyway within' it's area come back as zombies. What we need is a constant heal shit within an area spell or enchantment. Undead will take constant damage, and our living allies don't die as easily. Sounds win-win.

spell, yo. anything. a personal barrier would be nice, as would flying.

>>333236
I'll break that tie. Read up on a new spell first. We could use just a bit more oomph, and I feel that we won't be moving the phylactery until the undead army is defeated.

>>333236
...Yeah, new spell. Maybe research the shield thingies the undead had?

Ears 2011/07/28(Thu)19:22 No. 333272 ID: c811c4
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>"New spell, then. I'll be sending you all off to Ears to see how it's going!

Oh. Hello, everyone. Life treating you well? Erk, wait. Well, you know what I mean.

Have you become the world's greatest magician yet

Stressful. Oh, you might want to tell everyone that a tribe of gnolls is moving down here to help with the defense. Wait, I'm not sure anyone told you guys yet. There's a giant undead army rampaging out there.

Also how are all the villages looking? Or do you only have one?

Ears 2011/07/28(Thu)19:28 No. 333278 ID: c811c4
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Haha, very funny. I'm not some monster like Chee, I get tired quick. I'm better than any mage I've seen, like that's saying a damn. Yeah, Chee mentioned an undead army marching down. Could be every last soul outside of a mile radius from the sounds of it, but that doesn't mean we don't need rest. Our one village is looking swell.

I'm wondering if we should cover it from one side of this peninsula to the other. We would be spread very thin, but then the army wouldn't be able to just, ya know, walk around.

>>333278
How is the prep doing?

I don't think that be a good idea. the army is not after land, its after living things to turn into more troops and chee. gather your forces into a single area and then make geting to them harder than walking barefoot though hell

Let Chee have your soul

A non electrical mouse 2011/07/28(Thu)19:37 No. 333287 ID: 71a519
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Oh wow, fucking greedy land-hogs, I say we let 'em be until the zombies start ripping them apart, then when they retreat to us they'll be all like "Boo hoo we're sorry" and we'll be like "ahahahahahaah" and stuff.

>>333248
Indeed this is one of the more important matters, we need to find out how to negate this "soul ripping spell".

And ears, you need to stick together, if they get you, they get stronger and it's real easy if they can just pick you off little pairs at a time.

I'm not sure. You could make a wall or something but in the end your main priority is to keep yourselves and the incoming gnolls alive. If they reach the lich tower then Chee can just give them the smackdown in person. Though... you know she'll probably be on the frontlines anyway.

The lich tower isn't important, is what I'm saying. Though thinking about it, maybe it is. I mean, there's a fuckhuge crystal on top of it, maybe the necromancers could take that over and use it to fuck us over.

Go ahead and build that wall. We can put gnolls and orcs and harpies behind it, if the latter two races wise up and run back here after the zombies arrive.

Ears 2011/07/28(Thu)19:45 No. 333293 ID: c811c4
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The preparation for defending out town is going as could be expected after having Chee's power lent to us. Which is to say, mind numbingly unbelievable. Our village is unrecognizable. Almost looks like a proper outpost for a lich's tower.

Haha, I'd let Chee have my soul if it meant saving everyone. But I don't have much in my own natural talent, I don't think I would be very good.

Yeah, we're going to stick together of course. Only a few people are let out of the town at a time.

A wall isn't a bad idea, it might slow them down a little bit? Nice to know we don't have to keep the tower up, either, but it seems to hold all the lich's belongings. It's probably best to keep such treasures in our hands, we should fall back to the tower before the tower falls back to us.

hope you have the proper firepower to sustain those walls

well maybe we could de-evil the tower and use it for housing or w/e its pretty big.

>>333293
Make some walls and dig some holes. Deep, deep holes. You're going to be facing hordes and hordes of zombies. You want some place to put the bodies for burning so they don't just pile up and climb a mountain of corpses over the wall.

Worst case scenario, of course. I really hope it doesn't come to that.

In any case, a wall from shore to shore, as high and thick as possible. Then start harvesting that forest and putting it behind the wall. Wood is useful stuff, you don't want them to have it.

>>333293
How about, instead of building a wall, you make it really hard for people to go around the fort? Like, you can make ditches that funnel the enemy to you, and spikes all up in the ditches. Or just put spikes everywhere except in one route that leads up to the fort.

you know what might be a clever trick? make some large caverns underground around your town. once the undead army shows up you can collapse them taking some of the undead with them. it would also close off an avenue of attack.

Yes, lots and lots of trenches are helpful to have. Also, would it be possible to make the peninsula narrower with earth magic so it would be harder for the undead to just move around?

going along with the trench idea, can you make spikes in the trenches?

1/3 Ears 2011/07/28(Thu)20:22 No. 333314 ID: c811c4
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Good point. We have decent firepower considering our low numbers, but this isn't the time to get economical. We'll probably double the width of the walls. But absolutely, our housing is currently underground, but if this settles down then we'll make things a bit more.. liveable.

Good idea about the holes. We'll trap up the slope upward to lead into pits, and keep some fire mages blasting them.

It sounds there's a chance orcs and harpies might come, with gnolls. We'll definitely build that wall, then, and make it defendable. Funnels as well, to try and focus the enemy down certain paths with spikes and traps and the whole lot. We might be able to make the peninsula as a whole a bit thinner.. hey, yeah, maybe we really can. It would certainly take while, but at the very least we could at least make a huge chasm!

Underground paths are also good. I think we'll make them just as much for offense as much as so we have a safe passage back to the tower if we lose position.

Well, I shouldn't sit around staring at the long horizon for too long, lest I not live long enough to go over it.

2/3 Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)20:22 No. 333315 ID: c811c4
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Hello again. It seems everything is going as well as it could be. I've gotten the hang of a healing ward. It doesn't last forever, and even less time if it's overwhelmed with undead in the area, but it will definitely hurt.

Also, my messenger to the western human kingdom was just shot down, it seems.

To install the wards, I need someone to sneak into the harpy and maybe orc lands to put them in. I feel that if we mess this up, they'll feel we're betraying them. They're so hard to work with, I don't think they would believe it if I said these were healing wards. Ugh.

3/3 Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)20:26 No. 333317 ID: c811c4
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08:45 - Eastern Mountain Range: Communication with the Lich King

"Hello...?"

>"Lich King speaking. Is that you, Chee?"

a litch has gone mad is is planing on burning the world to the ground. if he succeeds there will be no new life, and after some time no death. will you help us curb his excess?

>>333317
May as well confirm it. Ask if this kind of mass undead raising is acceptable. Also, ask for an explanation as far as you're concerned. What'd he expect to happen, giving a phylactery free will of its own and so much power?

>>333317
Yes. We sorta need help because this dude is going crazy and upsetting the balance of things.

Also, Chee you need to sleep. You're no help to anyone if you get this tired.

Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)20:49 No. 333337 ID: c811c4
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>"What was two Liches is now one, you've taken out the other, and him under your power. Caught with your pants down by this other lich, now? I think not. I'm afraid I won't baby walk you through this. I gave you such power to have such power. Enough to eventually almost rival me. Almost, being the key word. Obliterate the other lich, Chee, and to me when you are ready, not a moment sooner."

>>333337
He planned this? I'm honestly not surprised. The power you have didn't look accidental at all, Chee. You just have to keep improving, keep studying. Well, not right now- you need sleep... how long until the undead army arrives?

Ask him what he wants from you.

>>333340
Really, I hope he is just immortal-bored, because the other option is that he has some kind of kill switch stuck in you. (Though it is fairly likely he still does, and would try to activate it if he starts loosing badly when it comes to a fight.)

Damn Chee, you need some Zs. But you might not need someone to sneak the ward into the harpies. They seem a bit less warlike than the orcs, and you've already made a deal with them. You might be able to just hand the ward off to them. Present it as a gift, for when the Lich army does inevitably come, and let them know they're free to fall back to the area you control.

Instead of warding the orc lands, I say you put that effort into a ward for your own. or if you were already planning that, a stronger or second one.

1/3 Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)21:13 No. 333354 ID: c811c4
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"What do you want from me?!"
>"I don't spoil surprises. Tata for now, Chee!"

2/3 Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)21:13 No. 333355 ID: c811c4
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It's silent, now.
The messenger to the paladin was just destroyed, as well. They didn't do it themselves, it looks like they have something similar to what I just made, an anti undead field across the land.
You're right, I need to sleep, I'm about to pass out. Shabin and everyone and the gnolls are moving south. My construct will alert me if there's a problem, and I'll have a more sentient construct offer the wards to the harpies, or use Tae if they don't. But for now, I'm going to bed.

>"Master Chee. I beg profusely for your forgiveness for the timing, but we've just attained a message for your consideration."

3/3 Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)21:14 No. 333357 ID: c811c4
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>"Fool kobold! Did you think you could fortify yourself in those two days without me noticing your intentions?! I hope you've made use of today, because the offer to surrender is null. You'll appreciate the power of an unbroken lich soon, Chee!!"

get some sleep.

Chee, take a little nap, you don't look so good.

Fuck that guy. I am confident you'll have his soul soon.

>>333357
When you get up and send a message back, specifically ask what the point of all this destruction is? Destroy the world for one lousy 'boldlactery in a desperate grab for power? What would he rule as the new King? He's pathetic, this plan is unworthy of a lich of any caliber.

He's backed into a corner the only idea he can come up with is genocide, heh.

>>333357
Send actual messengers to the paladins, and have them contact the humans.
You can make NON-necromantic golems, right?

1/5 Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)22:41 No. 333417 ID: c811c4
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I should be up. I should be scrambling to prepare for a fight. Before the messengers were shot down, I got a lay of the land. The lich isn't bluffing. Sure, a zombie isn't a big deal. But over ten thousand at the least? Most are coming south. Most of the human kingdoms are fighting for their life with some strong necromancers. The elves are silent and waiting, as are the dwarves. The rest of the land, for as far as I can see, is turning black.

How could a single lich do this? Was the world always this fragile? I guess I can't worry about now. I'll take your advice for the next day. I'll attempt to contact the paladins again, but I don't know how to make actual golems yet.

2/5 Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)22:41 No. 333418 ID: c811c4
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I wonder how everyone is doing, back home? Oh, I can't worry too much about that, now. Just yesterday, this peninsula was shrouded in danger in my eyes. Now, it's worth everything of mine to defend.

3/5 Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)22:41 No. 333419 ID: c811c4
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I'm not the only one that thinks so either, it might be like a second home to me now, but it's the first home to many.

Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)22:43 No. 333422 ID: c811c4
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Nothing has changed, I think. We're still fighting for the same thing. The lich is simply coming to me, this time. It's actually convenient for my own wishes, when I stop to think about it.

Chee Quest - Part 6 : End Cheelop 2011/07/28(Thu)22:46 No. 333426 ID: c811c4
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I think the crystal at the top of the tower is just a source for all the lights inside, as well as outside. I can't be entirely sure, but I find it kind of nice. I can see why the bird lich made his throne underneath it. I won't change this part of the tower. Under it, I can sleep easily, even as the world suffocates around me.

COLORZ.

*dies a happy mouse*

Can you send us to the Winston? He seems like a capable dude. Either way send us to some one and get some shut eye.

>>333422
The lich is probably staying home while his forces go to you. He doesn't seem the type to expose himself to danger.