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

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Okay, who are our shadow/stealth people currently with us.

Teana, Melisandre, Mereth and the other Erinyes, and Siduri?

I wish Garin was here.

Anyway, which of them should we send out under Superior Invisibility? I'm thinking two of them should be good, personally.

[X] Send out scouts
-[X] Mereth and Siduri, both under Superior Invisibility, Greater Blink, Ethereal Jaunt, and using Wind Walk
--[X] Have Mereth and Siduri carry a small mirror for us to look through via a Mirrorsight spell to view whatever they point the mirror at
-[X] Have the other Erinyes do very high recon under Invisibility, high enough that there's no chance of them being spotted by the Efreeti
--[X] Give them Myrish Far Eyes and task them with getting intel of the changed geography of Valyria. If there's even the slightest hint of being detected they're to teleport back.
-[X] Take the time to alert our Shaitan and Djinn allies of what the Efreeti were up to with pursuing the Valyrian Steel Spikes

Mereth because of her True Sight SLA and battle experience and Siduri because of her tactical mind which will give us a very clear accounting of what we're up against. I loved her report before we hit the Adamantine Convoy.
 
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[X] Duesal

I think we should scout so we get a map like the last time, they probably have some kind of anti air defense following the fleet that we need to prioritize.
 
So about this expedition, how do the Efreeti know where to go?

Knowledge of Planetos certainly spread already, but of Valyria's magic preserving measures few living people know.

Maybe a planar refugee like Siduri's mother settled in the City of Brass?
 
TotallyNotEvil said:
@Deliste If she was a powerful sorceresses, then she could have had a Gold Dragon Wyrmling as familiar, and that just about settles it :V

Ignoring the obvious choice of being a Dragon Familiar, a Coure Eladrin is really nice, a Winter Wolf or Hippogriff have rather good physical stats. and with PF Improved Familiars, Faerie and Tidepool Dragons are pretty good too, having a bit of Sorc casting but no greater age categories.

I think if I were to start as a Tidepool or Faerie dragon, I'd try to turn myself into a Sea Dragon or whatever the equivalent True Dragon for a Faerie is. Tidepool has an clearer evolution and better initial casting, but Faerie has a fantastic SLA and better stats.
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There should be three tiers of the challenge.

Obtain Familiar level familiars.

Improved Familiar.

Other Familiar Feats.

Otherwise yes most of that is an option, should have expected everyone to go the Dragon Route and made a fourth tier.

I'm curious about how you handle the Planeshifting.
 
Say, can somebody explain to me why the Efreeti ship are raiding Valyria in the first place? I got the impression that they just did what is the equivalent of a random Warp-Jump (40K) and somehow got there by mistake.

Or am I missing something?
 
Jack vile Ripper said:
Say, can somebody explain to me why the Efreeti ship are raiding Valyria in the first place? I got the impression that they just did what is the equivalent of a random Warp-Jump (40K) and somehow got there by mistake.

Or am I missing something?
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This was very much on purpose. Valyria is semi-linked to the Plane of Fire, and the Efreeti found one of those portals in their pursuit of this:
DragonParadox said:
Aebys' tales speak of great spikes of dragon-steel driven into the stone beneath Valyria, piercing veils of molten stone to channel the power of the earth's fiery blood to the dragonlords' will.

If anything remains of these great works, you know that even splinters will be precious beyond measure, and perhaps in the finding of them one might unearth clues to the last of Valyria's mysteries: the Doom.
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Somehow they found out about the gigantic Valyrian Steel spike artifacts, and they're intending to loot them to use for gods know what.
 
Jack vile Ripper said:
Say, can somebody explain to me why the Efreeti ship are raiding Valyria in the first place? I got the impression that they just did what is the equivalent of a random Warp-Jump (40K) and somehow got there by mistake.

Or am I missing something?
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There is a ritual that their head of state wants to do and the materials exist in the heart of the volcano so to speak. We don't know what the ritual is but we know that if they need materials from there then it is something big and needs to be stopped.
 
Jack vile Ripper said:
Say, can somebody explain to me why the Efreeti ship are raiding Valyria in the first place? I got the impression that they just did what is the equivalent of a random Warp-Jump (40K) and somehow got there by mistake.

Or am I missing something?
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The equivalent of a Court Mage in the Efreeti polity sent them out to gather reagents for him; This is very much a fetch quest, only on a filthy rich and incredibly entrenched planar empire scale.

What exactly they are seeking remains unknown, but there's a good guess going on it would help along with the ascension of their leader to full blown divinity.
 
Duesal said:
This was very much on purpose. Valyria is semi-linked to the Plane of Fire, and the Efreeti found one of those portals in their pursuit of this:

Somehow they found out about the gigantic Valyrian Steel spike artifacts, and they're intending to loot them to use for gods know what.
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Well shit. Can't let that happen now can we?

[X] Duesal
 
Gorgrath177 said:
How is this quest 3.4 million words?!? WTF?!
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Three and a half years of non-stop activity, with DP writing an average of three to five updates per day, and a lot of reader participation.

Lots of fun, too. It's well worth the effort to read through it, though I wouldn't have the mental fortitude to read all of the discussion, too.
 
WOO! Like @Goldfish, I am an office drone, but today I got back from performance review, which is always a gas.

When your supervisor tells you to just goof around for twenty minutes and clock out, because you met all your numbers and they couldn't find anything for you to improve on in the short term, you're reminded why working in a cubicle isn't all bad.

Fuck working on teams though, I always kick ass as a lone wolf.
 
Jack vile Ripper said:
Why, thank you! Truth be told I'm not sure if I'm able to... contribute that is this Quest. At least of this magnitude. 'Cuz a) I know jack-shit about both ASOIAF and D&D, b) I can't plan worth-a-shit, and c) I skimmed about 90% of the Quest that aren't threadmarked.

So... it's very, VERY daunting of what is ahead of me right now. BUT! I'll see what I can do. Making OMAKE and such of the like.

(Now let's see here, where's that paper containing Viserys vs Bloodthirster[Warhammer] OMAKE idea...)
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Welcome!

Also, I am a primary example of a total plebian in terms of ASoIaF and D&D who learned on-the-go and now could be called "middling-to-competent" at both.

Generally speaking you should be able to contribute through pure osmosis. Give it several thousand pages of actively taking part in discussion and you will learn more about both of those things than you have in all the previous years of even knowing they existed.
 
Crake said:
WOO! Like @Goldfish, I am an office drone, but today I got back from performance review, which is always a gas.

When your supervisor tells you to just goof around for twenty minutes and clock out, because you met all your numbers and they couldn't find anything for you to improve on in the short term, you're reminded why working in a cubicle isn't all bad.

Fuck working on teams though, I always kick ass as a lone wolf.
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My performance review should be this week, too. I should be getting a pay raise, though it will likely be tiny.

There is something to be said for working in a climate controlled office, even if it does expose me to everyone's germs.
 
Crake said:
Welcome!

Also, I am a primary example of a total plebian in terms of ASoIaF and D&D who learned on-the-go and now could be called "middling-to-competent" at both.

Generally speaking you should be able to contribute through pure osmosis. Give it several thousand pages of actively taking part in discussion and you will learn more about both of those things than you have in all the previous years of even knowing they existed.
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Yep, @Jack vile Ripper . After all this time, my ASOIAF knowledge is extremely limited. Knowing the system or setting helps, but you can still participate without it, and learn as you go.
 
TotallyNotEvil said:
So, how are we going to pick up Balerion? Shrink him a bit and squeeze him through a Gate? I'm wary of Plane Shifting into the Valyrian heartlands.

Awesome, right?

You mean, going back to Earth?
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Bottle him?

@Duesal, Can you add having Mereth or Siduri carry a small mirror? We can use a Mirrorsight spell to view whatever they point the mirror at. It'll be like a camera.
 
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