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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] Accept Horas' offer and approach Lord Tarly
-[X] Greet him friendly and ask him how the travel to the Stepstones was for him, and of course how he found your realm so far.
-[X] Ask him what brought him here and if he has found what he was looking for so far.
-[X] If he is nervous, put him at ease by point-blank asking him what he thinks about the Darkenbeast Company, strongly implying that he saw nothing you consider bad for him to know.
 
@DragonParadox, can we vote for all Erinyes to study the following:
DragonParadox said:
Draconis Compendium

Description: Though written by entirely independent authors, dragons of sea and flame respectively, this compilation of draconic thought is treated as a unified whole by the scholars of Sorcerer's Deep, particularly given the systematization of lesser lore around it. It pertains to history so ancient that none save the oldest of spirits or the dragons themselves can remember it.

Content: Any reader not already drawing wisdom and lore from the Dragon Dreams who spends a month studying this compilation may make a DC 20 Wisdom Check which if successful offers unique insight into the mind, mannerisms, and history of dragons, allowing them to choose one of the following benefits.
  1. Warrior's Insight: +2 to Attack and Damage against creatures of the Dragon type
  2. Way of Elder Magic: +1 Competence Bonus to spell DCs for one school of magic
  3. Lore of Wyrms: Gains the ability to re-roll one failed Knowledge check/week
Note: A character who has gained one of the tome's boons may not gain another upon re-reading, unless they have suffered some dramatic shift in perspective.
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And get the Warrior's Insight bonus in their free time?

We will need every edge we can get against the Golden Company. Would you object to us making it a side note in this vote?
 
I'd like to leave meeting Tarly until right before he is to leave.

Let him sulk about and try to find petty secrets here and there.

And when he is preparing to leave drop in and have a talk. Maybe have passage already paid for. Maybe it's only for one.

Maybe we can entertain a guest for a little bit longer.
 
@Azel, would you mind adding the following to your vote?

-[] As a side note, remember to have all Erinyes sworn to you read the Draconis Compendium and achieve the Warrior's Insight for a permanent +2 to Attack and Damage against creatures of the Dragon type. They are to do this in whatever freetime they have.

The goal is whenever we do annihilate the Golden Company our Erinyes will have an edge.
 
Artemis1992 said:
True.

I'm just annoyed when people compare Viserys short drop with actual poverty.
Living for one month with the money a commoner with decent job may have and taking two more to become able to buy a reasonably wealthy merchant's house and start investing in trade endevours is not really comparable to being a regular kid on the street or beggar in the gutter.

He never had to worry if he and Dany would have a full stomach or a dry blanket by evening. There are a lot of people like that even now in Braavos.
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This. So. Much. The. Above. Viserys got a fairly good look at poverty, lived beside it, and was broke for a while. Interacted with people who lived near the edge on occasion in the Nest. He was not poor. He does not understand it from a personal perspective, though I do acknowledge that his early observations have helped him be more empathetic with criminals and the desperate.
 
[X] Azel

@Azel if we really want to unsettle him, we could introduce Horas and Randyll to one of our Colossal-sized Gigantean Advanced Plant-Imbued Manta Rays. That should firmly situate their perspective on just how fucked they would be to mess with us.
 
[X] Azel

Can already see Tarly ask us how long we knew of him with his son and we can honestly say the moment he stepped onto our lands.
 
Takesis said:
Two out of the three families that can contest Highgarden are on a covert mission, one backed by the king-in-exile and the other absolutely failing in subterfuge.
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I'd add the Rowan's to that list, they're very large and no doubt have as much pull with the swarm of lordlings in the northern Reach as the Hightowers in the south. The only reason they don't appear more prominently in canon is that Mathis Rowan is a pleasant and content man with little interest in rocking the boat.

Speaking of which, @DragonParadox - has the inquisition picked up any Hightowers in the tourney or those suspected to be working for them? With the Hightowers, Redwynes, and Tarly's at least tacitly on our side, the Reach south of Highgarden would be ours.
 
LonelyWolf999 said:
Speaking of which, @DragonParadox - has the inquisition picked up any Hightowers in the tourney or those suspected to be working for them? With the Hightowers, Redwynes, and Tarly's at least tacitly on our side, the Reach south of Highgarden would be ours.
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While there are certainly suspected Hightower agents around there is no direct representative of the House present.
 
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LonelyWolf999 said:
I'd add the Rowan's to that list, they're very large and no doubt have as much pull with the swarm of lordlings in the northern Reach as the Hightowers in the south. The only reason they don't appear more prominently in canon is that Mathis Rowan is a pleasant and content man with little interest in rocking the boat.

Speaking of which, @DragonParadox - has the inquisition picked up any Hightowers in the tourney or those suspected to be working for them? With the Hightowers, Redwynes, and Tarly's at least tacitly on our side, the Reach south of Highgarden would be ours.
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Technically speaking House Hightower would be very unlikely to raise their hand against us if it came to an invasion for a variety of reasons-- though that doesn't exclude Oldtown acting as hotbed for various dissident factions if we didn't reach out to them.

With just Redwyne and Tarly, that clears (I think?) both sea landing and land invasion route for our fleet and Dornish contingents respectively.

Oh yes, they should be afraid.
 
We know any other houses that are here? Sent there to spy or speak in their name?

Actually aren't the Rowan's Targ loyalists?
 
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