Reconnect Undrek Naudal to Osquip cart, for UD char only

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Reconnect Undrek Naudal to Osquip cart, for UD char only

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The title. Suggest having UD characters, and only UD characters, able to go to and from Undrek Naudal via Osquip in order to facilitate neferaious meetings between surfacers and UD in the Blue Lantern Keep.
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Re: Reconnect Undrek Naudal to Osquip cart, for UD char only

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Three reasons this won't happen:
  1. It would defeat the whole purpose - at least for UDers - of having the travel checks between Oghrann and Blackrock. (The fact that you can casually teleport between Vallanar and Naudal is, IMO, already a problem... but at least you have to pay for that teleport.)
  2. It was removed via IC action (namely the ToT causing a lot of cave-ins), so it cannot be restored through OOC requests alone. At least put some IC effort into it.
  3. The trip isn't that hard, in either direction. All UD races have darkvision, meaning you'll only ever have to beat a Survival DC of 20. If you're prepared for it, you can trivially get into the Upperdark.
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Re: Reconnect Undrek Naudal to Osquip cart, for UD char only

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For it to happen it could only be a limited transport for specific characters, like the other few exceptions. Special passes to travel along with official caravans for those in the favor of Sshamath. This would require IC work, as Dalo mentioned.

General access for everyone won't be done. We have lore-accurate travel between Underdark and Upperdark/Surface now. It requires a DC 20 survival check to navigate, and is typically only undertaken by high level drow of around level 26-30 (level 13-15 in pnp). Naudal is physically cut off from the Underdark and is by necessity a self-sufficient outpost. Any travel between it and the rest of the Underdark is ICly a grueling and difficult journey.

Furthermore, the change to travel was a condition of removing the limitations on UD characters being able to gain exp/loot in surface areas, and vice versa for surfacers in the UD.
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Re: Reconnect Undrek Naudal to Osquip cart, for UD char only

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DaloLorn wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2023 2:56 am(The fact that you can casually teleport between Vallanar and Naudal is, IMO, already a problem... but at least you have to pay for that teleport.)
Teleport DCs between UD and UP/Surface still need to be adjusted. I keep forgetting to get around to that. It should be much harder.
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Re: Reconnect Undrek Naudal to Osquip cart, for UD char only

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DaloLorn wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2023 2:56 am
[*]It was removed via IC action (namely the ToT causing a lot of cave-ins), so it cannot be restored through OOC requests alone. At least put some IC effort into it.

Um... that actually sounds like an ooc decision given an ic explanation.

As to the rest, I was just thinking it would be nice to encourage interactions involving lower-level UD characters who are incapable of teleport or stealth. It seems like low level UD chars just spend all their time very much alone.
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