Re: Tri-Maran Ships And Other Chit-Chats

--- "George \"Loki\" Williams" <chaos93@?????????.net>
wrote:
> > -blood helm - A Maztica (Aztec) type altar used
> for
> > human blood sacrifice to power the helm. The heart
> > belongs to the gods, but the blood powers the
> helm.
> > The altar absorbs the blood as blood points. 1
> human
> > sacrifice equals 10 blood points.
> This sounds intriguing to me. I am curious though;
> human sacrifices were
> made to their GODS (Powers in Planescape terms).
> This sounds to me like a
> divine energy helm, and that brings up the issue of
> it's operation outside
> the spheres where their gods are worshipped. Would
> you send a few more
> details no what you have developed here? One of the
> NPC crew is a Maztican
> healer and I have been trying to decide on a
> culturally specific side plot
> for her.

Okay, the blood helm used humanoid blood as a power
source, think of it as a vampiric helm. The humanoid
heart sacrifice is a religious ceremony and the blood
is also used to power the helm.

Okay, the plot would go along this line, that an evil
maztican high priest developed the blood helm after
his city-state was visited by a spelljamming ship.
After consulting his gods, he is able to fashion a
helm out of a stone altar that was placed on a wooden
ship, fashioned after the visiting spelljammer ship.
At first, the ship was used as a mobile temple within
the kingdom for humanoid sacrifices, but as the gods
demanded more sacrifices, the ship is used to raid
nearby neighboring cities. The defeated foes that fell
to the city-state's army were sacrificed on the altar.
The ship and regular spelljamming helm ship escorts
were seen entering wildspace about a year ago. What is
the fleet of ships doing in wildspace?

Blood Helm

One regular humanoid sacrifice equals to 10 blood
points, a giant is 20, a small humanoid is 5 blood
points and tiny humanoid is 1 blood point.

The helm is the size of an Aztec stone altar.

The altar can store up to 2000 blood points. It takes
250 blood points to move into spelljamming speed and 2
points to maintain spelljamming cruising speed per
hour. Tactical speed is achieved by spending 25 blood
points to initiate movement of SR 1, 2 point per 1 SR
raised per hour and 2 points to maintain cruising
speed per hour. In combat the ship use 2 blood points
per SR raised per turn/combat round.

250 BP - jump from tactical speed to speljamming speed
2 BP/Hour - maintain spelljamming cruising speed

25 BP - jump from dead stop to tactical speed SR 1
2 BP/1 SR - To raise SR by a factor of 1
Current SR (2*SR)/Hour - Maintain tactical cruising
speed
2 BP/SR - Combat rounds tactical speed

If the altar is moved to another ship, it takes 10
blood points per 1 ton of ship to initiate
spelljamming speed. It takes 1 blood point per ton to
initiate tactical speed.

1T   =    5 BP
2T   =   10 BP
3T   =   15 BP
4T   =   20 BP
5T   =   25 BP
10T  =   50 BP Ship is too small to accommodate the
helm
---------------
25T  =  125 BP
50T  =  250 BP
100T =  500 BP
200T = 1000 BP
300T = 1500 BP

Animal blood is used on a type of 'pyre' helm, pouring
the blood on the fire as a 'burnt offerings'.

I guess, you can have a divine energy helm, which
intrigues me to no end, but it might operate only
within the god's sphere of influence and it's
outer/innerplane domain for the faithful.


I hope that helps. If this is confusing, use the
formula for alternative helms on BTW. =)

Ariel

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