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[Empiricist]

Use our ice control on some of the ice coating our tomb. Try and make it violently sublimate, detonate or explosively vibrate. Ensure than nothing is near the blast. Also, try to telepathically contact all the nearby dwarves simultaneously, try to allow them to telepathically contact each other as well with us as the mediator.

[10ebbor10]

How large are these airships? Would be nice to be capable of investigating the danger.

Can we try to act like an actual fossil. Maybe end up in a museum, if we're carefull.

// We're about half the size of the gondola part. Go figure.

Well, how about we try to use our icebreath + mist thing. Rapidly cooling the air around the airships will cause the air to contract, increasing the density, and greatly increasing the upward lift generated by their zepellins. They'll shoot up rapidly, enter the warm, lighter air above, and then drop again. If, the air beneath has warmed again by that point, they might crash. Otherwise, they'll be seriously shaken, or colliding.

Spoiler: Or we can just freeze a small part of the air (click to show/hide)

Unless they fly on magic, which what exactly I was aiming at.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I'd like to make it clear to both sides that they do not want to attack us, but I'm not quite sure how. We've already demonstrated the "We're a big scary dragon" thing, so we'd need some demonstration to show more...but we can't do that without picking sides (which I don't want to do) or destroying part of the landscape (the only available part being our house).

Ideas?

[Empiricist]

Rapid vibration of ice to cause violent, explosive sublimation to propel massive ice shards like a cannon.

[10ebbor10]

Ideas?

My plan, as detailed above? Wouldn't do to much harm if we limited it.

[Harbingerjm]

Ideas?

My plan, as detailed above? Wouldn't do to much harm if we limited it.

They might well treat it as a direct attack, either because they don't wait to see how effective it is or because they interpret it's lack of effect as a lack of ability on our part, and that would rapidly lead to Bad Thing.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Pretty much. I can't think of any way to do that without antagonizing one or both sides. The ice-cannon idea is a little better in that regard, but we wouldn't have any way of demonstrating how effective it is.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Well darn, it seems our ice-wall wasn't very effective. Which implies our ice-boom3 wouldn't be either.

We don't want to pick sides? Imminent destruction about to force our hand?

Plan: forget about the treasure, get the hell out of there.

[GreatWyrmGold]

We haven't even seen proof that there is a risk of "imminent destruction".

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Elves are on one side of our island, dwarven armada is on the other. They don't like each other.

[GreatWyrmGold]

It's called "go around". Besides, as you noted earlier, we don't know how far below the island they are.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

The last airship turned out to be pretty close.
The elves will use our house as cover-and for some reason they were firing on it even before there were any dwarves. Just the dwarves trying to shoot the elves will likely leave scars or worse. If that other cloud's also more elves, and they're all here for our house, (why were they trying to shoot it down before?), that'll be even more doom.


btw, -1 to taking action against the dwarves. I blame the elves for any actions the dwarves have to take.

[GreatWyrmGold]

The dwarves would be better-off flying around the rock than firing through it, and I doubt that the elves would waste time or ammunition on our house now that there are dwarves (and they know a skeletal-ice-dragon is in there). Besides, was that even a weapon? I don't think we found out exactly what it does.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

They don't have perfect accuracy, so in chasing & taking potshots at the elves they'd likely hit our house as well. And with that many ships, it might not be long before we've sustained a lot of shots.
Plus, for all we know, it really would be easier to shoot through the node- if it's rather unbalanced, it could fall down with a single volley.

If they're all here for our house anyway, we could see two things: they're more careful about shooting it (they want to preserve it), or they'll berserk (they were going to shoot down the node anyway). If the former, I still wouldn't trust things not to get out of hand. The latter also explains away the thing they shot at us as just a bomb, but you are correct in questioning that.

I don't think the elf lady gives two shits we're here.

[Haspen]

PTWing.

* Haspen lurks :3