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>>315129
Bongo Bongo ain't so bad a name for now. Essentially, most PCs wouldn't need to know or care about it, and the GM would be hard pressed to create a scenario in which the name was discovered, aside from having an adventure during the Great Fuckup where the players are helping escort a necromancer to the Goblin Isle in face of the Outsiders and their effects.
The whole point of naming it Bongo Bongo is because we have decided that its form is that of Bongo Bongo from LOZ, and t makes for a good, familiar yet haunting placeholder.
I agree that we need a name for the effect of the drumming, something that could be referenced too in the more 'Call of Cthulhu' style of adventures in the US.
The Death March? The Song That Ends The World? The Heart of Wotan for the more confused philosophers?
Hell, who still knows about Bongo Bongo anyhow? The Totlcatl, and maybe some goblins?
Does he even interfere in any way? I was under the impression that all he is a construct made of our materials and outsider power with the singular purpose of trapping any invading outsiders in the Entropic Beat of Time, the Universe, and Everything.
...Entropic Beat sound good?
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That being said, the Illithiad are in an unending war with the Goblin Lich Kings under the sea, so would not they be able to hear/detect the beat of BOngo Bongo pretty much consistently?
And if we intend on doing the whole sea-water=/=magic, then what about Illithiad lifewarping magic?
Maybe we should have it so that they have their own version of lifewarping that is psionic rather than magical?
I like the idea of Illithiad convincing the minds of their minions to alter their own bodies, with suicidal buffs by removing built in limiters, or destructive shutdowns by triggering a full chemical overdose, especially in potentially poisonous or explosive creatures. PUFFERFISH GRENADE!
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>>314784
I personally like the idea of the whole 'ocean flows with necrotic energy'; remember when we thought that Bongo Bongo should be made out of the unmentioned Ocean God?
Not actually pervasive in the whole ocean, just on the seafloor mostly, settling in trenches and carried along in some of the currents, and it only really show in the Sea of Ghosts, as expected, where you can expect spectral apparitions to appear before an undead force arrives.
It would make for an interesting show for the players if every couple of years a deep sea current rises up more into the shallows, causing zombies to crop up on the shores of islands and the Furnshakt, which would be where the goblin undead-hunters would spend much of their time at these times.
When are we going to get around to talking about the meteorology and oceanography of the US, anyhow? We have geography, but no real understanding of the persistent ecological and geological cycles that maintain these environments.
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>>313568
I notice that the whole Fae/Outsider/Gentry thing was never resolved, so here is my take on the issue:
-The Fae are inter universal entities that are essentially the multidimensional versions of butterflies, as in they will go from universe to universe doing whatever, but aways causing waves of change due to their nature as a technical 'Outsider' and their own reality warping fun.
-The Outsiders are literal extra universal beings that would be the equivalent of natural semi-harmless cosmic entities from whatever universe the Gentry may be found, and were drawn here by the Jareths doing a necromantic equivalent of 'digging too deep' for the lulz.
-The Gentry, from all I can read about their behavior, are extra universal beings that are what /tg/ would be if our suggestions had REAL power on the worlds we quested in, meaning that the gentry are effectively us, or another universe's version thereof.
All three forms are 'outsiders' to our universe, and the only ties they have to our own are the inter universal energies that naturally ebb and flow throughout the multiverse. This same energy is only harnessable by specific ritual and control devices but I can definitely see the 'madness/insanity' that beings such as Tiamat experience would inherently weaken the dimensional barriers around their souls that would normally shield them from said energies, paving the way for outsider influence or powers.
Note: At this rate the Unified Setting is going to have more and deadlier HFS than DorfFortress! Are we making the world a little TOO dangerous for its own survival?
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