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

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One Autumn Leaf said:
A cat is our lead. A fucking cat. Almost out of spite I want to flip this table.

Memes aside the cat has come in clutch. We find the birds and we do something?
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I remember a pen and paper adventure for very low level characters that climbed up a tree to save it the owner gave a map which turned out to be a dead dragons lair which was guarded by a demon they killed the demon and took the dragon corpse and got super duper rich. I've always believed that cats are a sign of great or disastrous things to come since.
 
LonelyWolf999 said:
At the time I didn't agree with that. Now, I think I understand a little more where he was coming from.
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That strikes me as the kind of wisdom that is best internalised only after passing through said equation-based morality stage. In that case it would be fine. Done otherwise, I'd say it's pretty much a carte blanche for motivated reasoning. IMHO, of course.

Tl;dr: Priest had a point, but such reasoning requires a certain level of ethical maturity.
 
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One Autumn Leaf said:
A cat is our lead. A fucking cat. Almost out of spite I want to flip this table.

Memes aside the cat has come in clutch. We find the birds and we do something?
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We catch the Little Birds and interrogate them about Varys whereabouts.

Then we catch him.

Then we cut off his head, throw a quickened stabilization spell on it followed by Celerity and Smokey confinement.

Next month, Lya uses runelore to craft a god-proofed chamber in the Fungus Forge, where we can do some special research.

Varys head is grafted on a Fungal Pod to keep it alive, thus preventing any of his backers from claiming his soul or resurrecting him, and keeping him fully available for Tyene to pry his mind apart.

Meanwhile, he will be the first specimen for the proposed memetic weaponry against the Illithid.

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I needed to get that out of my system.
 
Huh. Isn't anyone curious on what magic items Myrcella has on her? Or did our greater Magic Dispel destroy/ wipe away said items or spells?
 
Here's the updated plan.
Adhoc vote count started by Goldfish on Jan 29, 2019 at 1:10 PM, finished with 86 posts and 4 votes.
  • [X] After Vee thoroughly questions him about any children operating in the castle who fit the description of the one we previously encountered, who we now know serve as Varys' unwilling agents, place Balerion in a Smoky Confinemen bottle using Blood Wish, heal the Charisma damage with an Orb of Mental Renewal charge.
    -[X] Then continue the original plan to seek out Varys, Grandmaester Pycelle, and Jon Arryn, in that order of priority, for capture or elimination.
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Azel said:
We catch the Little Birds and interrogate them about Varys whereabouts.

Then we catch him.

Then we cut off his head, throw a quickened stabilization spell on it followed by Celerity and Smokey confinement.

Next month, Lya uses runelore to craft a god-proofed chamber in the Fungus Forge, where we can do some special research.

Varys head is grafted on a Fungal Pod to keep it alive, thus preventing any of his backers from claiming his soul or resurrecting him, and keeping him fully available for Tyene to pry his mind apart.

Meanwhile, he will be the first specimen for the proposed memetic weaponry against the Illithid.

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I needed to get that out of my system.
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...But Varys is competent? I thought we'd use idiots for our memetic weaponry such as Aedon or Aurane

EDIT: Also it'd be nice if we could kinda get our bearings on where we are in the Keep. For instance if we find the Armory maybe it'll have Roberts new Armor in it that @Duesal was asking about.
 
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Azel said:
We need to establish a baseline understanding of the human brain before we can even hope to unravel that of Illithids. A functional specimen is better for that purpose.
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I can see it now. Varys with the top of his skull removed, while Vee stands behind him with her set of fleshcrafting tools digging around in his grey matter, commanding him to plot various types of intrigue. It'll be like brain surgery where the patient is kept awake and talking to make certain the surgeons don't accidentally cut out something important.
 
firefrog600 said:
You know the trophy hall really needs detailed labels in just imagining some hapless fool touching a super poisonous devils skin and going to an epileptic fit or maybe touching the mucous of an aboleth when we get around to killing some of them.

It brings whole new meaning to the don't touch the exhibits when doing so fan actually straight up kill said toucher.
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We don't tend to use the full corpse, at least not for the actually dangerous trophies, as those are also excellent reagents or Fungus forge fodder, so we tend to just take a small piece of the body, and use make whole to make an identical copy, that however don't have any of the abilities of the original body, but is still just as impressive looking.
 
Goldfish said:
I can see it now. Varys with the top of his skull removed, while Vee stands behind him with her set of fleshcrafting tools digging around in his grey matter, commanding him to plot various types of intrigue. It'll be like brain surgery where the patient is kept awake and talking to make certain the surgeons don't accidentally cut out something important.
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:o
That is all kinda of horrifying imagery that's now in my head...
 
[X] Goldfish

DragonParadox, just wanted to add to the voices who really enjoyed how you syntethized the threads discussion into the latest chapter. I also appreciate how you used Dany to reveal the thread's blindspot regarding Cersei.

Sure we know Cersei has done a lot of reprehensible things, but all Viserys knows is that she made a nasty joke about the Pointmen back before magic was known and second hand rumors of cruelty. Are they or even everything she's actually done worst than say whatever Azema, the Erynies, Malayrs, that Valyrian fire dragon lady, or the magisters we're letting invest into the Royal Companies have done?
 
Ok so I was researching on the wiki where exactly Robert stored the Dragon skulls after claiming the Red Keep and it says that they were put into the Cellars of the Red Keep. We know a couple of the skulls from the wiki and here's what given:

Balerions Skull - the largest of the nineteen
Vhagar's skull
Meraxes skull
The Last Dragons Skull
Skull belonging to one of the last two hatchlings born on Dragonstone
Unidentified skull over three thousand years old.
Possibly Meleys skull
Possibly Arrax's Skull
And Possibly Caraxes Skull

These are only the named ones on the wiki and it's stated that there were nineteen skulls total. I think we should probably prioritize both Balerions Skull along with the one thats over three thousand years old.
 
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[X] Goldfish

DragonParadox, just wanted to add to the voices who really enjoyed how you syntethized the threads discussion into the latest chapter. I also appreciate how you used Dany to reveal the thread's blindspot regarding Cersei.

Sure we know Cersei has done a lot of reprehensible things, but all Viserys knows is that she made a nasty joke about the Pointmen back before magic was known and second hand rumors of cruelty. Are they or even everything she's actually done worst than say whatever Azema, the Erynies, Malayrs, that Valyrian fire dragon lady, or the magisters we're letting invest into the Royal Companies have done?
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Yeah but for us she's not really useful in the long term the magisters are sort of kind of needed in the shortish long term of governing their governments. Cersei on the other hand is incompetent and straight up more of our enemy than any if them I mean we probably need at least one lannister to inherit their house who is amenable to our rule and that's not ever going to be cersei or any of her kids of Myra if westeros wasn't so sexist but they are so she won't be.
 
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Also @Goldfish does either Viserys, Dany, or Vee have the spells to identify what types of magic items Myrcella has on her? I'm not expecting a lot but it'd be nice to have a baseline that we can account for our enemies to have.
 
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