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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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[X] Face him yourself. Play up the persona of an overconfident merchant and pick a good moment in the fight to apparently panic, like after being hit.
-[X] Use Dark Sister and cast Acid Darts at CL 5 twice during the battle with Spellbattle to give a false reading on your spellcasting.
 
Azel said:
[X] Face him yourself. Play up the persona of an overconfident merchant and pick a good moment in the fight to apparently panic, like after being hit.
-[X] Use Dark Sister and cast Acid Darts at CL 5 twice during the battle with Spellbattle to give a false reading on your spellcasting.
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What's with the panic part?

We should show weakness.
 
I don't think accepting is the best solution here. How likely do you think it is that this asshole will actually back own and not raise a fuss if we play by his rules? He made the rules on the spot, he will change them on the spot.

...Very very tempted to have Oathkeeper crush him but I'm not sure if the conflict triggers would actually activate. They are
  1. Weider has less than 6 Base attack
  2. Wielder is wearing equipment of less than masterwork quality
  3. Non-Lawful alignment

Pretty sure Jonny the Giant managed to meet these.
 
@DragonParadox, I'd like to know how they made Large dragonglass blades.

That's the kind of tech we want for the coming Long Night. We're working on mass-producing Valyrian Steel with our coming archfiend blood production, but it'd be great if we could also make dragonglass weapons that aren't at risk of shattering.

While we're here could we hire some salamander smiths to come back with us and spread their smithing lore among our own smiths?

As a side note, I'd like this dragonglass blade to poke at. I want to figure out how to do that ourselves beyond simply Hardening.
 
[X] TotallyNotEvil
If videogames taught me anything, is that as long as no one survives the battle, it will still count as a successful stealth mission.
 
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Richard is obviously our bodyguard here. If we are actually going to maintain the facade of f a merchant, we should limit our acts of badassery to the bare minimum. Besides, Richard needs the XP more than we do.

[X] Allow Richard to deal with the idiot, but ask him to make the Fire Giant's end slow and painful. Idiocy does not deserve a quick, merciful death.
 
[X] Goldfish

Point.

Though we could also try to talk him down. I mean, he give of the impression that his skull was used as an anvil one time too often in his childhood, but still. I'm sure with our socials and a sock-puppet, we can get through to him that he should bugger off.
 
Azel said:
The idea is to play the plucky hero.
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Why play the hero at all? If we're doing this in our "persona" we could still crush him with high level spells. As a rich and arrogant merchant that can apparently cross planes (because we sure as fuck don't look local) it stands to reason that we'd have a number of highly valued magical 'artifacts' on hand, and very dangerous sellswords and sellspells to protect our fragile body.

Accept his challenge, make it so whatever spell we choose looks like it comes from a ring or our robe or a necklace, whatever's convenient, and laugh as he melts alive and screams in agony.

We get cred, he get's dead, and we keep the scaly surprise under wraps until it's time to burst from the birthday cake and start singing Happy Birthday Mr. President.
 
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[X] Goldfish

Point.

Though we could also try to talk him down. I mean, he give of the impression that his skull was used as an anvil one time too often in his childhood, but still. I'm sure with our socials and a sock-puppet, we can get through to him that he should bugger off.
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... but that's Goldfish's plan. Using the local dialect for social intercourse.
 
[X] Allow Ser Richard to answer the giant's challenge
-[X] Start fight in Pearl of Black Doubt stance, use Manticore Parry to redirect his best attack towards himself, Wall of Blades to try and block anything dangerous, and try nailing him with a Disrupting Blow early on. Charge if you won initiative in the first round, otherwise use the maneuver. Use Lightning Recovery if you miss with DB.
-[X] If it is successful, recharge your man users by only making a standard attack and spending a swift action while he is dazed. Try and chain Disrupting Blows, but recovering the Parrying and Wall of Blades

This is a good time to remind @DragonParadox that he should have Manticore Parry.

@edit: Hearing the Air is a stance, and Manticore Parry is lv 6, not 2.
 
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DragonParadox said:
Yes, it does not come up often but by the rules you can freely cast a spell at any CL up to your true Caster level.
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But CL and DC are generally unlinked, so a cl 5 searing agonising darts has the same chance of causing prone as a cl 16?

Provided that there is at least one hit, of course.

[X] This situation is stupid and annoying. We have some skill at magic, enough to look after ourselves at least, and not enough patience to humour you. Stand aside or I will put you on the ground. Continue after and I will take your corpse and all upon it.
-[X] If not backing down, cast agonising fire darts (3 darts).

@DragonParadox would searing be noticeable/comment worthy? Can we cause agonising without it?

Do we know anyone about this: "They look alright... alright by Lord Fajir"? Who that might be?

Can we guess based on previous context if these are Isle goons or brazen throne goons? A subigated group might be useful to appear friendly towards.

And do we have a layout of the palace area?

I kind of want to ignore the idiot and say to the mage via varys' telepathy "greetings fellow mage. We should talk" if this woman is against the brazen throne

These aren't a Problem, well, kinda, there an unfriendly information source, but we should see them as a resource! Just... One that needs a bit of, careful handling! :D
 
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[X] Adopt a patronizingly sympathetic tone: "Were you dropped on your head one too many times as a youth? Or perhaps your tribe needed an anvil on short notice and used your skull as a stopgap measure? If you'll wait until my business is done, I have a good reference to heal the brain addled for you. Run along now, don't want you tripping and then falling into the Sea of Fire."
-[X] Allow Richard to beat on him like a literal red-headed stepchild.
--[X] Use TNE's battle plan.
 
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