Prompt 10

## Prompt 10-1

After defeating the dragon you had hoped to have some rest to work on your projects, but that only lasted a week. While everyone was distracted by Shallyx, the festival, the dragon, and their own projects, The Irquarim were growing in numbers. They have recently started attacking villages trying to claim them as their new homes and use the creatures living there as hosts. This has been happening in areas where all of you have followers and those followers have recently begun praying to all of you for help dealing with this threat.

## Dërżiga

> My followers and I will take to burning the infected and the dead. I will have the forgers make armor and have it cover all flesh so that those on the front line can stay safe.
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DC: 14

Roll: 13

### Result

You burn down the area where the Irquarim were, but some still survived and more entered the area afterwards. The numbers in the area have been reduced but are still there.

## Effermerus

> I'll try to find out whether or not the have a hive mind, and where it might be.
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DC: 8

Roll: 8

### Result

You discover that they are a hive mind and that it seems to be some sort of psychic telepathic link so its more peer to peer than master-slave.

## Faelar

> I'll work on a spore to paralyze the bodies of these infected. My follower will help me with its creation and spreading it around.
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DC: 18

Roll: 17

### Result

You try to create a spore that paralyzes the infected bodies. You discover that the creature is simulating the standard electrical impulses of the brain so standard methods would paralyze other creatures as well. Instead you attempt a different method of stopping them by cutting off communications between the individuals in the hive mind. Your spores don't entirely cut off their communication, but limit it to just the ones in that body, which forces those in a body to form smaller individual hives instead of one larger hive mind.

## Kreva

> I will research these creatures and try to find a way, or try to learn if it's possible to return the mortals back. My chosen will aid me in this as well
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DC: 18

Roll: 8

### Result

You discover that the hosts are killed when the Iraquim takes over so they would turn back into a corpse.

## Malia

> I’m going to surround one with a ring of fire to protect everyone else, capture the Iraquim, then experiment to find a way to kill the parasite while it’s in the host. Like a phase, viral or bacterial disease that will kill the parasite.
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DC: 16

Roll: 19

You capture one and have some up with multiple pesticide like viruses that could kill them in a host.

## Prospero

> Prospero is going to distribute as much alcohol as he can to inebriate the people so that they cannot be effectively controlled due to impaired motor functions.
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> Hank will begin considering design features for my legacy weapon and sketching out his design.
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DC: 16

Roll: 7

### Result

Unfortunately, the alcohol doesn't help since the Irquarim kill the host and are controlling the body through electrical impulses so brain functions don't matter.

Hank does that.

Ua
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> I'm going to send my chosen to protect areas the Irquarim have been attacking while I try to sort through their minds(mind?) for information.
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DC: 10/14

Roll: 10 (6+4 from Charlemagne)

### Result

You learn that the Irquarim don't have enough hosts to survive in and that the bodies seem to last too long due to decomposition so they need more. Your chosen manages to hold them off until Charlemagne's chosen shows up but gets injured on the process.

## Prompt 10-2

Continuing this since it hasn't been resolved and most of you seemed to be gathering information and developing things without taking actions against the Irquarim.

## Dërżiga

> "I have scorched enough to leave a mark. This week I will make traps and cages to ensnare the creatures with my chosen protecting the glade from those creatures."
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DC: 17

Roll: none?

## Faelar

> "I will help Ua"
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## Kreva

> "My focus this week will be protecting my oasis with my cleric, I will protect it in any way I can.
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DC: 15

Roll: 20

### Result

Your oasis is so safe at the moment. Some of the locals are using it as a safe haven. You know if this continues you will have to turn people away due to space.

## Malia

> "I'm going to research what the effects of my viruses on non-Irquarim as a matter of urgency. I want to find anti-Iquarim species that won't affect non-infected creatures and are incapable of jumping the species gap to become zoonotic. As a stop-gap I'm going to have my follower distribute to elders, priests and the like a cocktail of my best guesses for the likely candidates for "safe" anti-Irquarim viruses, and instructions to hold infected beings (and the virus) back within a ring of fire. In modern terms, I'm looking for dsDNA viruses lacking integron and transposon element in their sequence data. It's about two-three days work. How that translates to being a deity in a fantasy setting, no idea. But I figure I have some sense of how viruses jump into other species given my domain, so I'm filtering for that."
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DC: 20

Roll: 19

### Result

You begin researching this and have a decent amount of success when testing however, since your description sounded incredibly technical and this is a high fantasy setting, your only way of determining success is testing, so you don't know if the results are accurate or just luck.

## Phira

> "Phira is picking another chosen this week. It’s a young deetalie who has wondered out from his kingdom hoping to become a hero. Phira has granted him the powers of a paladin and a magic item that allows him to create healing potions that also acts as a +1 mace"
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DC: 5

Roll: N/A no chance of failure

## Prospero

> "Prosero will aid Ua and Hank will travel along in Prospero's wandering tavern helping to bring in as many worshipers, safely as possible"
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Ua
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> "I'm going to take the form of a Umanite traveler and approach the Irquarim and offer them a deal if Faelar and/or Derziga is okay with it. They receive the construct husks ,that degrade much slower than the mortal ones, on the condition they cease attacking the mortals of the world unless harmed first. I will also build a magical glyph into each husk, that allows me to sense telepathic messages being transferred through the hive conscious."
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DC: 13

Roll: 10 (6+4 from Falear and Prospero)

### Result

You offer them the deal and they are suspicious since Umanite don't usually take action, but they listen and they accept the offer. However, when investigating the bodies they find the glyphs and reject the offer since they do not want to be monitored and spied on forever.

## Prompt 10-3

This seems to still be ongoing since the only attempt to actually stop them failed.

## Areshok

Special Prompt: You get to do something cool to try to get followers this week.

## Dërżiga

> "I will send out my swarm of animated armor and mechanical spiders to capture what remains of the infestation."
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DC: 15

Roll: 12

## Faelar

> "I will install the fungus into the husks bodies we all created."
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DC: 10

Roll: 18

### Result

You take the fungus you created and lightly dust the husks with it, just enough to block contact with the rest of the swarm.

## Kreva

> "My chosen and I will search for the Irquarim. We will try to convince it that we have new better bodies that they can use."
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DC: 17

Roll: 18

### Result

You manage to convince the Irquarim. It takes some work, especially after Ua's betrayal last time, but seeing no magic runes, they willingly move into the bodies. Afterwards they are cut off from the rest of the hivemind, and while its disorienting at first, they get used to it and realize it's not that bad.

## Malia

> "I’m going to distribute anti-Irquarim virus cocktail v2 and with the aid of my chosen we're going to see how the cocktail works and whether there are any signs of spreading to other species. If everything looks good, we'll gradually relax the restrictions on use over the course of the week."
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DC: 8 (it works)

Roll: 4

### Result

You create the counteragent that would kill the Irquarim, but it doesn't matter since by the time you have it fully tested and ready, Faelar and Kreva have already convinced them to enter the husks and they have.

## Prospero

> "I will aid Faelar"
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Ua
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> "I will aid Faelar"
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