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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] Crake

I feel bad for the sea lord, every other meeting we have ends with him learning another awful truth about the world; usually worse than the last one he learned.

The company keeps getting stranger and stranger too. Saan is probably the closest thing he had to a peer perspective during this meeting. That bit with "none of us here have to fear death" must have thrown him through a loop.

We're probably going to give inquisitors a complex about promotions too. Each level comes with more trust, so the kind of horrible shit you see gets worse. By the time they reach full inquisitor they'll be flinching at the sight of sealed envelopes.
 
BronzeTongue said:
[X] Crake

I feel bad for the sea lord, every other meeting we have ends with him learning another awful truth about the world; usually worse than the last one he learned.

The company keeps getting stranger and stranger too. Saan is probably the closest thing he had to a peer perspective during this meeting. That bit with "none of us here have to fear death" must have thrown him through a loop.

We're probably going to give inquisitors a complex about promotions too. Each level comes with more trust, so the kind of horrible shit you see gets worse. By the time they reach full inquisitor they'll be flinching at the sight of sealed envelopes.
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Interrogator enters closed office. He glances left. Then right. Then slowly thumbs a gauge that increases the intensity of the small room's Magelight. He breathes a sigh of relief--the desk's 'In' and 'Out' paperwork bins have been sorted through already. The desk lies empty barring the fastidiously arranged series of pens, binders and folders marked with his current case.

He sits down and reaches for his desk drawer for the cigars--and draws out a sealed envelope marked 'Top Secret', a letter marked with the Three-Headed Dragon bound in crimson silk and an Inquisitorial Rosette.

"Fuck," the new Inquisitor intones.
 
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[X] Crake
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We shouldn't tell anyone else of our afterlife mending plans until it is required. Perhaps eventually we can hope Asmodeus isn't yet aware of our little plot.
If so, I'd like to keep it like that for as long as possible.
 
What if anything do you relate to religious organizations @Crake their gods could tell them at any time, and maybe they should know how important their job is now?

Following that, what if anything do we do about the new information? We have been pushing anti-god propaganda since... basically day one. What do we do about that now? Do we encourage more religious activity? Do we try and prepare people to face this rumor somehow? What is the punishment for sharing this information? Death?
 
We're not really anti-god, in fact some might say we've done more to spread godly influence than any mortal alive right now.

We're against blind fanaticism.
 
MTB said:
Well, kind of. It'd hard to be farther away from a hardcore religious fanatic than Viserys.
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That isn't anti-religious. Viserys isn't a praying theist. But he isn't an anti-theist. We don't give two shits about what god people pray to. We know they exist. We make deals with them and that is the extent of our relationship. At no point have we done anything like "Down with the gods" or passed legislation effecting them in a negative manner.

Edit: At best we are an agnostic and even then we have problems with the definition.
das_slash said:
Unless you see Gods as Pokemon, in which case He is the very best, like no one ever was.
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I mean Gotta catch them all.
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
That isn't anti-religious. Viserys isn't a praying theist. But he isn't an anti-theist. We don't give two shits about what god people pray to. We know they exist. We make deals with them and that is the extent of our relationship. At no point have we done anything like "Down with the gods" or passed legislation effecting them in a negative manner.
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Err, well, debatable. We've made it difficult for poor Evil deities to work madness, destruction, neverending desecration against all living things, and getting their rightful tribute from their followers in the form of one monthly massacre and halted long-term plans of mass genocide to feed their war machine.

But a bunch of our Gods made out like bandits.
 
Crake said:
Err, well, debatable. We've made it difficult for poor Evil deities to work madness, destruction, neverending desecration against all living things, and getting their rightful tribute from their followers in the form of one monthly massacre and halted long-term plans of mass genocide to feed their war machine.

But a bunch of our Gods made out like bandits.
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Okay I will give you this mostly because you are right and partly because I don't want you to be wrong in regards to the Evil Deities.
 
das_slash said:
Unless you see Gods as Pokemon, in which case He is the very best, like no one ever was.
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Speaking of we all good on those heart trees? Also I still wanna see about Church Grimm. We make a God I wanna make every Good Boy that dies into one in the Celestrial Bureaucracy. The Empire will be the churchyard and every soul living or dead its wards.

Also chances of making merlin king temples in every major coast city? Or atleast one in every Province that has zea access. I want that bit of extra protection and atleast the speed in pools that purge aberration taint. Would Bilestone count as a sacrifice? And did we ever get the recipe for that thing Xorn used to purge the stuff?
 
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Abhishek M said:
Speaking of we all good on those heart trees? Also I still wanna see about Church Grimm. We make a God I wanna make every Good Boy that dies into one in the Celestrial Bureaucracy. The Empire will be the churchyard and every soul living or dead its wards.

Also chances of making merlin king temples in every major coast city? I want that bit of extra protection and atleast the speed in pools that purge aberration taint. Would Bilestone count as a sacrifice? And did we ever get the recipe for that thing Xorn used to purge the stuff?
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Bilestone is a valid sacrifice, yes.
 
We have a list of approved gods and a spy agency. Now all we need to do is emotionally traumatized our child mages (on purpose) and fight the drow and we are the Dwendallian Empire.
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
We have a list of approved gods and a spy agency. Now all we need to do is emotionally traumatized our child mages (on purpose) and fight the drow and we are the Dwendallian Empire.
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Well, we're not traumatizing them on purpose... it's just a natural consequence of reaching for Phenomenal Cosmic Power. There's a lot of fucked up shit you gotta know.
 
Crake said:
Well, we're not traumatizing them on purpose... it's just a natural consequence of reaching for Phenomenal Cosmic Power. There's a lot of fucked up shit you gotta know.
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I am sure the lecture on how the Devils torture people who make pacts with them (courtesy of Unilla book) is purely scholarly. Has notihing to do with dissuading ambitious and stupid mages. :V

Edit: Although knowing the consequences of pacts should be a lesson they ought to learn.
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
I am sure the lecture on how the Devils torture people who make pacts with them (courtesy of Unilla book) is purely scholarly. Has notihing to do with dissuading ambitious and stupid mages. :V

Edit: Although knowing the consequences of pacts should be a lesson they ought to learn.
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The thing is, a lot of this stuff was performed out in the open, we sort of twisted back the diseased skin-curtain and revealed "yes, this is what cultists get up to" in Tyrosh, with the implicit subtext of "and then they get purged with fire".
 
Crake said:
The thing is, a lot of this stuff was performed out in the open, we sort of twisted back the diseased skin and revealed "yes, this is what cultists get up to" in Tyrosh, with the implicit subtext of "and then they get purged with fire".
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And sacrificed to eldritch gods, we ate the PR hit already, might as well own it up.
 
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