Well, as we've each a mouth and two ears apiece, how abouts all y'all talk about your thing and all we all talk about our thing.

We should make this "icon" thing optional, some of us can't afford that.

...no, even if we devolve into meta later, we shouldn't start there. I propose a mandatory hour of prayer to one of the better gods begging them to save us specifically by chosen as a cleric. That's what you need for undead, you know, is good clerics.

I think that's an excellent idea. Lord Bromathan, go find somewhere quiet to pray to Sarenrae.

I already put in my hour on my knees today, it's how I'm able to prepare spells.

If you want Sarenrae to do more than just listen, I'm going to need a rock worth 25,000 sails and eight more circles of spells.

Her Excellency the Most High Priestess of Asmodeus Aspexia Rugatonn is a caster of international renown, and a trustworthy negotiating partner.

Our Lord has blessed her with magic of the highest circle, and I believe she should be able to raise a Gate 20 feet wide for a period of around two whole minutes.

There are many ways to increase the throughput that a wizard might design, the first that comes to my mind being a series of carts on wheels locked into a circular track. I am of course open to suggestions from our learned scholars if they have easier suggestions, but I am confident it should be possible to move all our souls and worldly possessions through a single casting, if we are well-organised.

I believe that with a teleport to Egorian, I should be able to arrange some appropriate compact by which this service could be purchased and by which our people could find themselves safe under the protection of the Infernal Crown of Cheliax well before the obviously upcoming mass starvation even begins.

It would only be fair that we offer to our saviour the Most High Priestess and her faction within the church of Asmodeus both a percentage of our material goods, for having rescued them, and our eternal obedience as the price of our souls. I believe that our Queen should come with as well, and while I do not believe she would have the negotiating power to remain an independent monarch she could reasonably hope for a position of high nobility and resources from which to retain her rightful control over Korvosa's rural holdings and distant territories.

Our material wealth which has not been brought to this vault, and that remains in temples and homes across Korvosa, I expect will have to be regained slowly, at least over the coming months, by a series of dangerous excursions by teleport, which shall need to be carefully planned in advance, but I see no reason we cannot all expect to regain most of our possessions within the city walls within a reasonable period and despite the city itself being doomed, even if a great share will need to be paid as compensation to adventurers.

Why we tolerate this snake in our midst is beyond me.

Besides, the last thing we need is more 'help' from the evil gods. You think it's a coincidence that this kind of attack only happened after we replaced the Arodenites with someone who can't even channel usefully? I say we just go hallow the whole city, bring things back to normal.

Is hallowing the entire city possible?

Only a fool would go it alone in straights such as these! I say, if Cheliax will help, let them!

I'm no learned master or enlightened priest, but what if we do that plan but swap out Asmodeus's favourite slave for literally any other ninth circle?

There's, what, Nefreti Clepati, Razmir, the Andoran elf one, I'm pretty sure Sarenrae has a ninth circle in a different continent but that's still an improvement...

... is Areelu Vorlesh still alive? I'd genuinely take her over Cheliax.

What do we need a ninth-circle for?

Hallowing the city may be possible with a wish or miracle!

1. I have no idea what's possible with wish or miracle.

We need the ninth-circle for the gate, genius.

Shadow's can fly at 40ft, but they can't swim!

If we dig a tunnel to the river, we can swim through the water and escape that way!

I had an idea last night that was similar, but as it turns out shadows aren't impeded by water.

Maybe if you'd spent less time last night thinking that shadows couldn't swim and more time fighting them, we wouldn't all be in here.

Just saying.

We make a shadowproof box, and then we get one guy whose really fast, and we give him Death Ward or something, and he runs through the whole city trash talking about how dumb shadows are and how they're stupid monsters who suck.

All the shadows chase him until he's got the whole city following him.

Then he runs into the shadowproof box, we close the door and he teleports out.

And then we put the box on a boat, take it to those [Expletive] [Racial Slur] bastards over in [Geographic Slur], dump it in their [Expletive] stupid drinking water, open the box and run away.

How dare you! I have family in Magnimar!

No, what we'll do is we take it to the Storval Rise...

I'm going to ignore... most of that, and ask about the shadowproof box. Can you shadowproof a box, other than by making it ten feet thick?

"No, of course hallowing an entire city isn't possible. If it was half the cities in Ustulav would be hallowed. If you tried to cover all of Korvosa, it would take nearly five thousand - no, six thousand 5th circle spells, each of which takes a day to cast and a fortune in materials, and that's before you include death ward. We could have every cleric in the city do it and not be halfway done by year's end."

> can you shadowproof a box

[Togomor nerds out about ectoplasm]

Could you hallow it all with a miracle? I was talking earlier about hallowing the city with a miracle, you might not have heard.

>If it was half the cities in Ustulav would be hallowed

If you try to cast Hallow in Ustalav a lich teleports in and immediately Unhallows it. Shadows don't have that kind of magic so they can't stop us.

Bah, you think the shadows don't have clerics and sorcerers of their own? More fool you.