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It should have been implied since the ones who bring him back would expect him to serve, but done anyway. Now it's explicit.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Constructs don't have age categories.
Diomedea
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Probably not? It's not actually there, just the plinth. If we are really worried we can bring it in a few miles out of town and have the sellswords walk.
...I'm not sure how that's salient to my point? Letting Vee go home earlier with Aradia, Maelor and Glyra doesn't impact anything with the Dracolich at all.
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And years of training, famous flatulists were insanely dedicated to their Craft, taking enemas several times a day.
The bowl of beans is only enough if you don't care about the quality of the conversation.
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@TotallyNotEvil @Goldfish and everyone else, if Viserys is the one using Speak with Dead via Bloodwish, that means we have seven questions instead of six since he has a CL of fourteen and you can ask one question for every two levels. What should be the last question?
@Diomedon, @egoo actually has a point there. The Shadow Tower, for lack of a better term, is loud. It has to be closed to safely transport. When it's opened, it's like a massive gong to anyone or anything with arcane senses. All the undead in Sallosh would inevitably hear it.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Ask how he became a being of living stone?
Where ar e you getting that about the Tower? I've seen no mention of that in the quest that I can recall.
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@Goldfish, that works. Also, I'm about to walk into a test. I'm delegating to you since I'll be unable to post for the next hour.
[X] Goldfish
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Ah, damnit, not again. First Crake, now Duesal. Okay, gimme a minute.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Wonder what he will come back as if we use Reincarnation on him, the reincarnation table is for humanoids after all, the spells description say that for non-humanoids, a similar but different table should be made, and I don't think a construct count as a humanoid, so it will be interesting to see what he becomes.
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The downside of reliability and competence.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
[X] As soon as your magic is replenished, use Blood Wish to duplicate a Speak with Dead spell on the ashes of the Smith
-[X] Ask the following:
--[X] Would you answer the call to be brought back via reincarnation or resurrection?
--[X] Would you be willing serve us faithfully if brought back and treated fairly?
--[X] If reincarnated, which form would you most prefer?
--[X] Where have you hidden your spellbook and other greatest arcane treasures?
--[X] Name all the mages and monsters in the service of Illyrio Mopatis and the Golden Company and speak of how strong they currently are and what special abilities they might have.
--[X] Tell me of the ritual you were working and what its purpose was and everything that went into its making.
--[X] Through what process or misfortune did you come to be a being of living stone?
---[X] If the Smith reveals that he either wouldn't respond to a Reincarnation or Resurrection, carefully preserve the ashes to be added to the skull collection for future research.
-[X] Ask the following:
--[X] Would you answer the call to be brought back via reincarnation or resurrection?
--[X] Would you be willing serve us faithfully if brought back and treated fairly?
--[X] If reincarnated, which form would you most prefer?
--[X] Where have you hidden your spellbook and other greatest arcane treasures?
--[X] Name all the mages and monsters in the service of Illyrio Mopatis and the Golden Company and speak of how strong they currently are and what special abilities they might have.
--[X] Tell me of the ritual you were working and what its purpose was and everything that went into its making.
--[X] Through what process or misfortune did you come to be a being of living stone?
---[X] If the Smith reveals that he either wouldn't respond to a Reincarnation or Resurrection, carefully preserve the ashes to be added to the skull collection for future research.
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Oh, it was just that in your quick to do list, you had stuff like looting the city, which takes time (and I agree it is important), and I feel that getting Amrealth alive or at least situated is not... Do right now!urgent, but does need to happen very soon.
Here is something that I feel is a very good idea regardless - ask him advice or tips on how to not damage the wards when we teleport with the tower. DP was cagey on the risks of teleporting. I hoping (semi-expecting) that now there isn't a Dracolich in them trying to get out it's fine, but I would like to check.
Diomedea
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- The interblag
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Ah, I was leaving it off because I was focusing on Viserys. If we want Lya to start poking Amrelath, that's a separate thing. She doesn't really need to be present after we make it back to SD, since she wanted to come along to confront Illyrio (Who has gotten away for now). What everyone else is doing generally revolves around what Viserys is doing (the whole King thing). Lya doing a day or two of preliminary tests on him as a show of good faith isn't unwarranted, but before we figure out what each party member is doing specifically, we need to determine what we're doing as a whole with our time (since that determines if we need to concentrate force or not).
As far as we know, most of the risks of teleporting were due to Amrelath using his connection to lash out over the whole undeath thing. It was his leverage over us. As it appears we are moving towards giving him what he wants, he doesn't need to lash out at us. We should still ask him about it, in case there are more complications, but getting a few hundred sellswords back to SD is going to be more difficult otherwise, since we'll need to spend time stealing/securing a ship for them (and then checking in on them to ensure they don't die on the way. Makes us look bad).
Vote closed.
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Part MDCCLXXXVI: In the Light of Dying Embers
In the Light of Dying Embers
Eighteenth Day of the First Month 293 AC
Morning dawns bright and cold over the ruins of Sallosh, a thin curtain of mist clinging to the ancient stonework like a tattered grave shroud over dry bones. More than once during the night the window shutters had rattled and strange shadows glimpsed only from the corner of the eye had interposed themselves over the face of the pale waxing moon. The message is clear enough, you think—the dead of Sallosh have had enough of the living and their battles trampling upon their graves, and should you spend much longer inside the city more than starts and noises may come acalling.
Though you have not yet decided if you would try to pry their secrets and their treasures loose, there is one dead man, if man he be, whose remains you have no compunction about making use of. You do so with if not the best of intentions, then at least better ones than a declared foe would have any right to.
You take 1 Charisma Damage
Blood over ashes fall a storm of embers kindling, and for a moment you fear you had misstepped, granted more life than you had meant to, but the cloud of glowing ashes merely flies about you obedient to your will and bearing an echo of the spirit they once held.
"Would you return to life if called, even into another body?" you ask, voice firm and clear.
"One cannot die who has never truly lived, nor a spirit enduring be bound to swiftly fading flesh," the whisper from the swirling ash responds.
Of course it would give you a riddle, you sigh before trying a different track: "If I returned you to this world in a form equal in strength and only lessened in mind by the passage into death, would you then offer fair service for fair lordship?"
"I have had many masters.... too many.... I would not bear another." Beneath the words there is a screech like gears scraping together.
"I do not think the Smith was a man at all," Lya interjects, eyes wide in understanding and excitement both. "Perhaps a thinking incarnate, bound to utter servitude, such a being would not die as men do and it would have no love for the bonds of servitude."
"I'm not offering slavery," you say, frustration showing in your voice in spite of yourself.
"I doubt that can make the distinction," Dany motions to the remnant. "Try something a little broader."
"Would you ally in good faith, paying recompense for the harm you have caused?" The notion of a mere alliance with such a powerful being does not precisely sit well with you, but better to establish the limits just the same.
"Yes... service for service and recompense for harm. I would deal fairly with you and yours," comes the reply, far clearer than the first two, not that it fails to raise its own questions. By what measure is fairness to be weighed. Your judgement of the Golden Company men was fair by your measure, yet those you hanged still died cursing your names and from the looks their fellows gave you there are still plenty who bear you ill will over the judgement passed on their friends and comrades.
"Where lies your grimoire, your greatest treasures?" you ask after a moment's thought.
"Hidden in the ether's webs, beyond the grasp of those sworn to Greed Eternal." The cloud of ash begins to slow once you are past the fourth question.
"Name all the monsters and the mages you know of in service of Illyrio Mopatis and the Golden Company?" you continue your interrogation unabated.
"Nine and Six and One, the winged, the wise, the crowned," comes the answer.
You look to Lya to see if she as able to make more sense of it than you, but your love shrugs. "There are too many answers I can think of, not too few, a poor riddle in truth."
Second to last you ask for the purpose of the ritual you had interrupted and everything that went into its making. The reply you get is tantalizing in its brevity: "To wake the stone, to make it more, to let the earth remember."
You decide to probe a little further and ask why that was needed. For a moment you think the spell had failed entirely before the final answer could be given, then the faintest of whispers reaches your ears, three words bearing no trick or riddle but the simplest of human needs: "I was lonely."
What do you do next?
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OOC: This should include anyone you are sending home and preferably also a revised schedule.
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Good. I want them to rise up to challenge us. I want this entire city absolutely purged after the next few days.
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- Chile
A Cargo Airship would certainly come in useful right about now eh?
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- Germany
We should put the mercs we want to survive on ships as soon as possible.
Warriors against incorporeal Undead would a be a massacer for no benefit.