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[scapheap]

They dies suddenly so they could not send their souls to us.

[Rolepgeek]

It wn't a ritual sacrifice.

[Koliup]

That has disturbing implications about how this universe works.
Do they just cease to be? Or is there an afterlife of some sort?

[scapheap]

It wn't a ritual sacrifice.

That the word I couldn't spell and gave up on.

[Rolepgeek]

I think it just means their life energy isn't turned into mana, and their souls go to a generic afterlife, since we don't have one yet.

[Jbg97]

Hmmm, i wonder if asking our people to capture some orcs or maybe even some priests for ritual sacrifice to us would be too much to ask.

[Rolepgeek]

...chaos is not evil, jbg. I am very adamant about this. We will not become an evil god, especially when we have Life as a domain.

[Jbg97]

Yes, but the orcs and Maher's priests are evil. We're killing them anyway, why not get some mana from it?

[Corruptor]

As soon as Tiberius is done with the skeletons, send him to those clerics that are weakening our barrier. I wish we had more mana, we need a champion of life to get through the death barriers.

Aaaand... Godwin point.

I guess the wall is too thick to stab through. (a decent wall is several meters thick)

I'm also in favor of letting them fight, it can only work in our favor. Do stricktly nothing besides regrouping, cleaning out the village, healing the wounded with fire nectar and preventing anything to enter uninvited.

Chuckle at the older Grumugga being basically called a toddler, while we, only weeks old, are reffered as an "adult".
Also apologize for the orcs being killed. Again. They were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Again.

And damn, those are proper gods. I'm glad Maher is the playful type...

EDIT: Damn the three four ninjas!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Donut

Sphere: Chaos, Fire, Life

Chaos skill: 2
Fire skill: 2
Life skill: 3

Mana: 1
Mana Income: 32 + 31(Prayer) - 6(Boon upkeep)
Worshippers: 20

Notable Assets:

Azula: Major Fire Boon, Fire Skill 1, Health 100%
Eldrick: Minor Plant Creation Boon, Life Skill 1, Health 100%
Firejackets: 80 (20 recuperating)
Tiberius: Chaos Golem of Life and Fire, Combat Skill 5, Health 100%
Mile radius of corrupted trees around the village, hostile to everything.
Fungus Spawn: 33

"Tiberius," you say, projecting your voice to his hearing alone. "Clerics are weakening the wall from the outside, I need you to move outside and put a quick end to them. I have absolute confidence in you."

Tiberius let out a bark of laughter and bull rushed the skeletons attacking him, the wall snapping closed behind him. Clearing a path with a blast of flame, he charged around the outside of the wall. "Two dead clerics, coming right up," he roared.

The cleric nearest him saw him coming and leveled a finger at him. An orb of darkness erupted out of it, hurtling towards Tiberius - and impacting uselessly on his armor with a *fizzle*ing sound. The cleric blinked, and then laughed scornfully. "It matters not," he shouted at the Chaos Golem. "Come near me and die, monster!"

...

As the cleric's charred corpse hit the ground, the other cleric made an incomprehensible gulping sound, turned on his heel, and fled into the forest.

He collapsed before he made it past the first tree, his flesh sloughing off with decay and flickers of electricity. "And thus are cowards duly rewarded," Maher's voice announced with a wild laugh. The laughter only rose in volume as a fresh torrent of lightning stabbed at the orc army.

Tiberius, meanwhile, charged the skeletons trying to get in through the damage the two clerics had caused with a roar of challenge, met with an answering cry from behind the wall as the villagers fought on with increased resolve.

Something draws your attention from all the confusion that the battle had devolved into, the two corpses of the slain villagers are glowing with golden light that is slowly rising towards you. You zoom down to meet it, and receive the souls of the two followers. "Haven't constructed your own afterlife, have you," Maher observes, the murmur sounding close by. "You should really consider it, it's such a bother manually collecting souls. I can recommend a fantastic landscape designer, in fact."

Grumugga's furious scream resounds from the center of the ongoing melee, and Maher sighed. "Excuse me," he said, and his presence vanished, reappearing over the battlefield. "I'm curious," he asked, projecting his voice to everyone in range. "Was your master plan to drown us all in ork blood?"
"Not only that," Grumugga's voice bellowed back triumphantly. "Behold my trump card!"

Gigantic figures came into view from the gloom of the forest, each twice as large as Tiberius and roughly ork shaped. And...rather brown.
"Mud Golems?" Maher sputtered. "Seriously? God of Earth and Water and that's what you go with?"

The Mud Golems slopped forward, attempting to reinforce the (few) surviving orks. The group of 4 Maher clerics turned to join the battle, flinging spheres flickering with equal parts Death and Lightning.

You take a moment to access the village - there's still sizeable dead-ish spots in the wall, but the vast majority of the skeletons within had been disposed of. However, nearly all the defenders were at least minorly wounded, the worst off of them clutching the stump where his hand used to be.

Eldrick finishes off the last of the skeletons near him and yells, "Barricade the dead spots, now!"

What do you do? The twenty wounded firejackets seem to have recovered, and join their fellows as they swarm above the village.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Donut

Sphere: Chaos, Fire, Life

Chaos skill: 2
Fire skill: 2
Life skill: 3

Mana: 1
Souls: 2
Mana Income: 32 + 31(Prayer) - 6(Boon upkeep) + 2(Souls)
Worshippers: 20

Notable Assets:

Azula: Major Fire Boon, Fire Skill 1, Health 95%
Eldrick: Minor Plant Creation Boon, Life Skill 1, Health 90%
Firejackets: 80 (20 recuperating)
Tiberius: Chaos Golem of Life and Fire, Combat Skill 5, Health 70%
Mile radius of corrupted trees around the village, hostile to everything.
Fungus Spawn: 7

[Jbg97]

Have eldrick repair the dead spots in the hedge or at least as many as possible.

[Corai]

Enter negotiations with Maher. Urist mcOrc is annoying, we should work together to exterminate her and then split the loot. Then return to murdering each other.

[Jbg97]

Stop trying to deal with maher! He isn't going to go for it!

[Corai]

He seems like a gentleman. Plus, if he does go for it and we strike an agreement then who knows what good will come from it?

Also: Can one person worship two gods?

[Koliup]

Here's my plan for an afterlife:
We don't have one. Well, not a metaphysical 'you die and end up in heaven' deal.
No, my plan is that we create a bigass tree. Like a sort of beacon for our follower's souls. When they get consumed by it, they are reborn as something entirely different and unique(possibly with fire powers) to how they lived their lives before. A friendly chaos spawn creating tree, if you will.
Though, lets make a generic forest of metaphysical peace for anyone who doesn't feel like being reborn.

Anyway, far more relevant to the stuff at hand: consolidate our forces and barricade. Let Maher and the orc god smash their forces together. We can clean up anything that's left, if Maher doesn't give us a good reason to spare his priests. We may also want to point out to him that lightning and death rays might not work so well on mud golems, despite how cruddy they are.
Also, the guy missing his hand. He needs a new one. Make it happen.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Why not try to make a deal with Maher? It's not like it will hurt us if he'll disagree.

Try to negotiate a truce or, better, long term alliance.