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

Artemis1992 · Jan 25, 2019

@DragonParadox
Unrelated to the Devilish plots, did they hear about Balerion?

If he's still in the Red Keep every servant working there could tell us.

Snowfire · Jan 25, 2019

Crake said:
To be fair, it only looks like 6 months from a layman's uninspired perspective.

It's really over three years of effort consolidating into a short span of time to start enacting longer running plans and ambitions.

I am aware, yes. But it's the perception that matters.

DragonParadox · Jan 25, 2019

Goldfish said:
[X] Ask more questions
-[X] Full King's Landing infodump, please? Rumors, gossip, plots, betrayals, etc.; everything Chataya knows which may be useful to us, both in this particular instance and any other involving intrigue in this stinking cess pit of a city.

I'm going to need a bit more direction than this. There is only so much room in an update

Artemis1992 said:
@DragonParadox
Unrelated to the Devilish plots, did they hear about Balerion?

If he's still in the Red Keep every servant working there could tell us.

The bones have not been taken out of the keep to anyone's knowledge.

Artemis1992 · Jan 25, 2019

DragonParadox said:
The bones have not been taken out of the keep to anyone's knowledge.

I mean is there a black cat that could be Balerion running around the keep?

Evaunit02mark1 · Jan 25, 2019

DragonParadox said:
OOC: For anyone wondering why the brothel is such an important hotspot for intrigue, it's because of Robert and other high ranking noblemen visiting. Chataya's girls hear a lot more than most and she knows how to leverage it. The move towards Viserys is in effect her trying to cash in her chips and go home in triumph.

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that everyone in power has such a shitty home life that they willingly spend money on sex or that the only organization with anything resembling competent leadership is the damn whorehouse.

No, no, Brothel. Credit where credit is due she runs a tight enough ship to earn that title.

egoo · Jan 25, 2019

DragonParadox said:
I'm going to need a bit more direction than this. There is only so much room in an update

@Duesal, you are up.

Let's do a repeat of that "4-updates-of-asking-uncle-questions-in-a-row"-saga. :drevil:

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Walliseatscheese · Jan 25, 2019

DragonParadox said:
I try to incude that, but it's more common from other characters. Viserys has seen so much more than most.

DragonParadox said:
Fair criticism thank you. I think I may be overcompensating since characters who constantly congratulate themselves in internal monologues are the ones I find the most frustrating.

May I suggest a few interludes on the subject? We've had hints of befores and afters, but a focus on how much better life is in the Deep might be one way to swing it.

DragonParadox said:
Varys along with the Grand Maester had been the one who counseled your father to open the gates of the city leading to the sack.

I thought Varys argued against opening the gates?

Following Rhaegar's defeat during the Battle of the Trident at the end of Robert's Rebellion, Varys counseled Aerys II Targaryen against opening the city gates[22] when Tywin Lannister appeared at King's Landing with an army of twelve thousand men strong.[6] Aerys, however, decided to listen to Grand Maester Pycelle and opened his gates to the Lannister forces, who sacked the city.[22]

Or is this a case of Viserys lacking proper information?

DragonParadox said:
The move towards Viserys is in effect her trying to cash in her chips and go home in triumph.

Smart, getting out of the city before everything goes to hell in a handbasket. We might be able to hire her as part of our Summer Islands Embassy.

zxzx24 · Jan 25, 2019

DragonParadox said:
Worse shi... er, mess than the place I grew up in. At least the bloody ruins were made of stone that would keep the rain and wind out if you were careful."

Alright then. Fire and blood it is.

We know of at least one undercity faction. The rat folk.

We meant to talk with them, now is a good time.

DragonParadox said:
The move towards Viserys is in effect her trying to cash in her chips and go home in triumph.

I see no problems with this.

Tomcost said:
Hmmm.

The Red Keep is full of cats, right? Maybe we should try Warging or speaking with animals to infiltrate it.

We did say we would grab balerion right?

This is also a good idea.

DragonParadox · Jan 25, 2019

Artemis1992 said:
I mean is there a black cat that could be Balerion running around the keep?

Oh you meant the cat... yeah, there's a black cat running around.

Artemis1992 · Jan 25, 2019

DragonParadox said:
Oh you meant the cat... yeah, there's a black cat running around.

One or more?
How could we check if it's the right one once we get it out?

Crake · Jan 25, 2019

Evaunit02mark1 said:
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that everyone in power has such a shitty home life that they willingly spend money on sex or that the only organization with anything resembling competent leadership is the damn whorehouse.

No, no, Brothel. Credit where credit is due she runs a tight enough ship to earn that title.

I mean in any vernacular, as far as a Westerosi perspective goes, Courtesans in King's Landing only get better treatment due to clientele and their boss, and that only insofar as it is clear they seem to hate their jobs (but their other options aren't exactly winning bets either).

In Braavos being called a courtesan is way different, like being a local celebrity, and not known and ill-regarded on the face of it for having sex with people, but primarily being known for all the other services they provide.

In King's Landing... they're just upscale hookers. Just with less filthy and rough clients... usually.

Duesal · Jan 25, 2019

DragonParadox said:
Oh you meant the cat... yeah, there's a black cat running around.

I mean... we do also want the bones. Can we steal the bones, @DragonParadox?

Also, you know that one piece of armor that Gerion looted from Valyria? Have we heard any more rumors about that?

zxzx24 · Jan 25, 2019

I want to know if he's eaten any imps yet

DragonParadox · Jan 25, 2019

Artemis1992 said:
One or more?
How could we check if it's the right one once we get it out?

At least one
Have Vee talk to it

Walliseatscheese said:
I thought Varys argued against opening the gates?

Viserys thinks he was for it, having heard it from ser Aliser.

Goldfish · Jan 25, 2019

DragonParadox said:
I'm going to need a bit more direction than this. There is only so much room in an update.

[X] Ask more questions
-[X] King's Landing infodump, please? Rumors, plots, etc.; anything Chataya knows which may be useful to us in ferreting out Varys, especially in relation to his schedule.

Crake · Jan 25, 2019

DragonParadox said:
At least one

Have Vee talk to it

Viserys thinks he was for it, having heard it from ser Aliser.

I think he was mistaking show canon for book canon. In the show, Varys advised against it I believe.

In the books, it's left as ambiguous. Therefore you created your own answer.

Taut_Templar · Jan 25, 2019

Something to keep in mind is the order in which we carry out our objectives. Once we kill Varys, the Red Keep is going to be significantly more paranoid and on guard, which would make a bunch of other tasks much more difficult.

Dracikral · Jan 25, 2019

[X] Goldfish

Dracikral · Jan 25, 2019

LonelyWolf999 said:
Something to keep in mind is the order in which we carry out our objectives. Once we kill Varys, the Red Keep is going to be significantly more paranoid and on guard, which would make a bunch of other tasks much more difficult.

So we should probably fulfill our most important task first

Time to get Balerion (the cat) out of the Red Keep.

Tomcost · Jan 25, 2019

zxzx24 said:
I want to know if he's eaten any imps yet

It would be awesome if the cat gained racial levels by having to defend himself from all the shit happening in the Red Keep.

spiritualatheist · Jan 25, 2019

I'm late for the salt, but I agree with @Azel. While children are and should remain a hot-button issue for Viserys, irrational guilt about things he has zero control over is not the way I think it should manifest. Anger at the atrocity, yes. Sorry that it happened, yes. But the self-flagellation just doesn't feel in keeping with the tyrant who is conquering the world to me.

Chulupey · Jan 25, 2019

Goldfish said:
Advanced Barbarian Dire Fungal Leshy, because few things could be quite so terrifying as a screaming mushroom monster jumping out of your chamber pot, enraged that you have interrupted it's latest meal...

Artemis1992 said:
I mean is there a black cat that could be Balerion running around the keep?

Votes: Meow x 1

I think @Snowfire is trying to tell you something

DragonParadox · Jan 25, 2019

spiritualatheist said:
I'm late for the salt, but I agree with @Azel. While children are and should remain a hot-button issue for Viserys, irrational guilt about things he has zero control over is not the way I think it should manifest. Anger at the atrocity, yes. Sorry that it happened, yes. But the self-flagellation just doesn't feel in keeping with the tyrant who is conquering the world to me.

I get the concern, and if he had learned about it in any other way than witnessing in in person and helpless to stop it I would agree with you, but he did experience it that way.

Snowfire · Jan 25, 2019

Chulupey said:
I think @Snowfire is trying to tell you something

Gib. Kitty.

#SingleIssueVoting #CatLivesMatter

Duesal · Jan 25, 2019

@DragonParadox

1. Remember that armor that Gerion looted from Valyria?

DragonParadox said:
The Laughing Lion has returned to port triumphant, his holds bursting with the treasures of Doomed Valyria. Not only has House Lannister gained back its Valyrian steel sword, though the rumors of it being Brightroar are false, but the Warden of the West has seen fit to grant Valyrian weapons to all his senior bannermen welding them to him more closely than ever as well as gifting a set of ensorcereled armor seed to be harder than the mountains to the king. Rumor speaks of more arcane treasures... perhaps dragon eggs for there have been men carrying gold western in Lannisport recruiting Dragonseeds throughout the islands of the Narrow Sea and the Crownlands. More worrying still are the talks with the Velaryon, impoverished and out of royal favor one can scarce imagine what Tywin Lannister could wish from them if not lore of elder times.

Have there been any further rumors about that? It's been a while, there should have been something.

2. Can we steal all the dragon bones?

3. Can we hunt for dragon eggs? There have to be a bunch in the Red Keep, there's no way there aren't.

4. Can we steal skulls from beneath the Great Sept of Baelor to poke at our ancestors for where they would have hidden their caches?

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