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

So, the quest was from the cleric's vision; it told us about the necromancer, dragolich and dark elf and it gave us a holy trap-trinket to use against said necromancer. We do some minor scouting, our rogue infiltrates dungeons and crit-succeeds (2 nat 20s in a row) his knowledge check to realise that duke has a bound demon ready to be summoned and how is it called (let it be demon A).

We hit the panic button and postpone the attack. We backtrack to complete some other quests (stopping bandits, rapists, etc), finding all sorts of criminals fit for execution. We sacrifise them in our own demonology ritual and hire another demon. It agrees to prevent demon A from appearing at our realm when it's summoned.

Next, we track down the dragolich and aproach him when he's isolated. We survive the encounted, talk him down, bribe him with magic artefacts and promises of future favours. In the end we negotiate that it'll turn on the necromancer when the time is right.

We come back to the duke's castle, infiltrate it, somehow manage to evade the dark elf. We find necromancer's spell book, but it's heavily protected with spells and chained to the altar. So we set the divine trap-trinket right in front of it and leave. As we're doing it, we find out from listening the guards talk that two Royal Witch Hunters have arrived, to investigate claims of the necromancer activity in the duchy. So far they've found nothing and decided to stay for some time to "further investigate the matter and guard the duke from evil manipulations". From how guard describes them it's obvious that they are dominated.

As we're leaving, we crit-fail and stumble upon the room where the "Dark Council" is - 5 of them (without the demon). GM evily laughs and tells us to roll initiative.

We fight for a time, and it goes poorly. Even though dragolich doesn't attack, duke fails to summon the demon and our warlock somehow fights off both Hunters at once we're loosing. Then the dragolich turns on his former ally. They fight, fell magic clashes in the air. The party retreats as planned, leaving dragolich raging about treachery and vengeance. Dominated Hunters pursue us with their last order being "slay them all"; dark elf is nowhere in sight.

We run towards the spell book, through the yard, alerting several guard posts, stumbling upon some nobles and military officers (a lot of those) on the way. The Hunters pursue us, dutifully slaughtering everyone in their path, as the part of the castle starts falling down as the necromancer slowly but surely corners desperate dragolich.

So we arrive to the altar. Necromancer teleports in front his spell book to defend it, having just finished off the traitor. And is immediately hit by divine powers of the holy trinket. He's hurt and uncertain, but he stands up and is ready to keep fighting. It's 6v1, we've run out of most of our magic, but we're full hp and the necromancer's badly hurt. We can take him.

Then the demon we hired finally looses her fight and the demon, bound to the necromancer, finally appears; at the same time the only Hunter alive arrives to the scene. He's hurt and is missing an eye, but to our relief, the stark pain allowed him to shake off the domination and he's here to slay to foul sorcerer. So it's 7v2.

Sorcerer and warlock fight the demon, while the rest 5 attack the necromancer. The fight is very much a last stand. From both parties. We can't retreat because that's our best chance at taking the duke down and he can't retreat cause his book's here, chained.

Both sides fight like beasts, with nat20s flying around and one-hit spells dodged by one point. The demon is banished, but the sorc perishes and warlock is unconscious. We tentatively cheer; then necromancer brings the cleric (and the only healer) to 0 hp. The battle's on the fence.

After 5 more rounds of combat, bloodied and half-dead, we win. Necromancer dies, and only 3 of us are left alive - wizard, rogue and warlock; and Witch Hunter NPC. The aftermath of the fight's messy - tons of dead servants, nobles and officers, not-so-gentle questioning (at least NPC healed us). It's finished when Witch Hunter gives his testimony; even though we're not exactly praised as saints or heroes, we're still acknowledged as savers of the duchy. We leave with fame and loot and lots, lots of money.

2 in-game months later, we emerge from an ancient toomb and discover that there's war going on. It turns out, that the dark elf stalked us through our fight, saw us killing the duke and immediately reported to his King. Dark elves persuaded a bordering country to attack the duke-less dutchy with most of it's castle in ruin and most military commanders slaughtered. Being the shameless weapon and war-magic producers and traders they were, dark elves even sent us a thank-you letter for providing them such opportunity; offering favour in return for which we should contact that very same dark elf assassin who claimed to be "impressed with our cunning and ruthlessness".

Sentient sorcerous jellyfish swarm. Never underestimate DP.