(Eris Raid) Helping out the Darkness

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It's probably that Ichor's too tired to help out with Reinala. To solve that, he'd have to ask Yggdra what Ichor wanted. Yggdra wanted what Eris had said, but honestly, that was perfectly justifiable.

Saying less wouldn't help, so he said more to lay their worries at rest. "Yume did stuff that didn't help Eris. He wants to patch up relations with Ichor. " 

The latter certainly wasn't included in the original mission, but it got the idea through. 

Yggdra still looked a bit suspicious anyway, but they bit their lip and spouted out that Ichor wanted more things planted, AND gave them seeds. Same as the previous mission? Did nobody help Ichor? 

Soma's actually worried about that. The last time that happened...

... He doesn't remember. Anyway, that gives off a bad feeling. He's sure abusing the embodiment of life isn't a good thing. And he admires Ichor. Not like Reinala, who's crashed his perfectly good living space and invaded his home. Not yet, but he's beyond sure they will. 

But he has his answer. He tells Yume that Ichor wants seeds to be planted, and has a stash. And of course, bleedings would work as well.

Actually, that was a pretty good idea all around. Expand chaos followers by bleeding. Help themselves. Help Ichor. Capital idea. 

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That still doesn't change that most of the nicest places to plant things are... ugh, in the valleys, where Reinala and co had set up sho--

Soma blinks, smacking his head with a paw. Of course. He definitely feels hate for the lot of them, but he needs to rein that in a little. There ARE opportunities here.

The one right here is that Order doesn't have a leg to stand on if they're eaten up from within. To do that, he has to show how silly their rules are. He dashes off to find Yume, Yggdra in his paws. 

Having another head is really good for this.

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But aside from that, he'd also thought of other ideas. Aside from entry to Reinala's city definitely being a must, the Carnivians had brought up other ideas. Like for example, their dens! They could hollow out or kick out some Carnivians and make homes for Chaos bloblings, where they'd be hidden.

Or even better, the tar pits, which were made specially for them. The bloblings could roll over the tar easily, so... 

Something coated with tar? Perhaps a lot of glow grape vines and trees woven together to make a treehouse, covered with tar? And then they could grow lots of stuff on the outside mesh of branches, so that if Reinala dared to attack their tarry heaven it'd probably offend Ichor as well.

Soma thinks about perhaps another idea which he'd keep to himself... Perhaps a home with an entrance UNDER the tar pits? that way, you'd have to sink into a pit to even get in, and that's something no other blobling would do. That would probably be a really safe way to store things!

Speaking of which, since Ichor couldn't get rid of the Tar pits, wouldn't Ichor be unable to get rid of the city? In that case, it'd probably make her happy if it could be sabotaged somehow...

Good. One idea for later. 

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Actually, that was perfect. Soma should also just hide and get stuff ready. Ichor didn't want stuff targeted, but Themis was fair game, right? Soma starts thinking up ways to mess the city up.

The bad things about walled cities is that they have to be fortified, and if they do, then starving them out was the best way to siege most of the time. 

If they could push order to the extent of not being able to provide for themselves in any way, all the bloblings within would convert mostly to disorder. How heartbreaking would it be to see their allies turn on each other like starving wolves?!

That was the best situation. No need for them to attack anything, and frankly although Soma would resort to that option if he needed to, but honestly, it was way better to have Order show their own hypocrisy.

So. Starving them out. Tar at every entrance. Tar on the roads. Tar moat instead of tar river. Some way to tie down wings. 

The last one was probably the hardest, but a hail of arrows? Lightning? Strong winds? A storm but of nasty stuff instead of... 

That gave an idea, but it'd probably also make Ichor angry, so he shelved it. 

Wait, no. He didn't even need to do all that. Just a lot of discomfort, over a long period of time should do it. Constant rain that was too hot. Constant rain that was too cold. Sewage problems. Things like that would already cripple the city. 

You lived in one for comfort, after all. 

Soma's already thinking of a particularly nasty prank. Medieval housing and places like Greek cities, victorian royal housing, and the such had problems with this in particular, and if they didn't have the right infrastructure to deal with it, problems would arise. 

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Yggdra's given Soma things to think about. Fighting back doesn't have to be active. It can be passive as well, and while he'd always thought about giving less power to the faction that would have a bone to pick with him a good thing, he also wasn't exactly sure about being proactively destructive. So this would be good.

Less seeds for the mountains, and more for the sands. That seemed good, and would arrest the blobling migration as well. Ichor seemed to have a larger base in the Smiley sands, regardless. So what would be good...

... Ah, Soma supposes that he could help out with fixing the huts that got wrecked because of him that time. That, and making sure that there was always enough food in the Smiley sands, too much opportunity for the city in the mountains to really ignore.

Oh, he could also help with innovation! That was probably better. Maybe something that could make use of the sea? Irrigation systems, of course. The tides would do it for them.

He begins shoveling sand and creating flats, trying to pack in mud. Perhaps he can take some from the swamp! Oh right, the swamp, that would be good... The sea could eventually pack the transplanted soil full of oxygen. Perfect.

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