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

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egoo said:
So, ah...
Shall we make more Drakenbeasts while we are at it?

We got the fire garlic seeds to make them as scary as True Dragons are when firebombing - and numbers can only do good, right?
Right?

Also, we are going to go against Tiamat's massive amount of Drakes soon enough.
Are there any Plant/draconuc creatures that would take care of those well enough?
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They're not really that pressing. We can make them for free, so we should wait until we have the bodies for it, since they fit into the CR 6 range pretty fortuitously.
 
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Crake said:
They're not really that pressing. We can make them for free, so we should wait until we have the bodies for it, since they fit into the CR 6 range pretty fortuitously.
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Alright, looks like well be making Golden Company into... Drakenbeast companies.
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH~

*snrk*

But honestly, we need to somehow alpha-strike all 3 points of interest with great success, and while I can see Azure Emps halping out in capturing spies with his forces, those Prismatic Breath Drakes are really nasty bastards, whom we cant 100% counter with Erynies - and we'll need most PCs for Shadow Fortress.

Ergo, I'm guessing that masses of Drakenbeasts would work.
 
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Part MMMCXXVII: Of Soaring Towers and Anchors Deep
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    • Of Soaring Towers and Anchors Deep​

    Ninth Day of the Eleventh Month 293 AC

    As is starting to become a habit in your visit here, you simply buy all the pearls with hardly a second thought. You can think of far more than three-thousand people you would wish to have warning of Deep Ones lurking nearby, though odds are only a handful of your subjects will be given a pearl to hold. Most would secure doors and corridors. Breath Taker even suggested constructing free standing arches to pass people under before allowing them into more sensitive locations like the Inquisition headquarters or governors' palaces. The priest is practically brimming with ideas, useful of course and much appreciated, but also a sobering reminder that his people have been laboring under the fel shadow of those creatures called the Deep Ones since time out of mind.

    Gained 3,000 Pearls of the Clear Sea

    Lost 150,000 IM

    Not all treachery is the province of dreadful minds from beyond the spheres of being, however, for mortals are worryingly adept at it and, as in all things, magic can help a great deal. Strange as it may be to think of protecting a Dragon more than five times your age from ill-intentioned seduction, that is indeed at the forefront of your mind as you wind your way up Wavespinner's pale spire, the eyes of serpents carved in every alcove almost seeming to follow you.

    ***​

    "... so then I silenced it by the most expedient means at my disposal. I bit into it. If you remember nothing else of my visit, Wisdom, remember this—apart from being horrid parasites with delusions of grandeur, Illithids taste truly atrocious," the tale told in a lighthearted tone draws laughter, as others before it have, but also a cautious gleam in her sea-green eyes. It seems she understands the warning about harming those who are under your protection.

    You take a sip of your drink and wait. Blood Wine the locals call it, though it thankfully has nothing to do with blood but instead the nodules of a particular type of kelp that grows anchored to the lowest parts of Vialesk.

    "I am not your enemy, fire-born," the sorceress says, at last abandoning the game of hints and double-meaning.

    "I never claimed you were, Wisdom," you reply instantly. If she had thought the sudden change of pace would put you off balance, then she will have to deal with disappointment.

    Wavespinner sighs, a small exhalation of bitter mist passing her lips. "I know it is uncommon for a mortal to seek to court a Dragon, but I assure you I have no interest in drawing Relath from your service, nor in any way interfering with his duties. You must know how hard it is to find peers in power and accomplishment, worthy to stand at one's side. Even having found them, they are all too likely to be distracted with their own doings, ill-mannered or too used to mastery in all things."

    You nod in cautious understanding of her point, though to your great good fortune you have never been in that position, without friends or companions at your side. No, more than that, you have never counted arcane lore or skill in battle the only worth that others might hold. How lonely it must be atop this tower, forever looking down.

    "I make no claim that my home has more great sorcerers or dragons than this sphere, but those who have gathered around my banner at least work together for the betterment of all without jealousy or arrogance," you say, convinced that her motives are genuine.

    To your surprise the sorceress laughs. "Ah... what a strange notion you must have of me. Generous as the offer may be, it is too early to think of moving my tower just yet."

    For a moment the expression strikes you as odd, then you realize that by the magic she wields Wavespinner might actually move her tower whole across the planes of being. Bidding farewell to the dragon-blooded mage with a far lighter heart than you had entered, you return to the market once more.

    There you find that Breath Taker had found a supplier of the Anchor Crafter Guild, who rather than forging mere ships' anchors is responsible for maintaining and at times expanding the coral and limestone foundation of the City of Splendid Waves. From them you acquire a set of cunningly wrought enchanted horns similar in function to the Titan Tools of the Opaline Vault, but working in living coral.

    Gained 2 Deep Song Horns (Coral Growth Titan Tools equivalents)

    Lost 20,160 IM

    What do you do next?

    [] Continue shopping
    -[] Write in

    [] Learn more about the political situation of the Plane of Water
    -[] Focus on the Marid Houses
    -[] Focus on the Brine Dragon Dominions

    [] Write in

    OOC: I was really tempted to try and push through with the political information, but I would like to get back to posting the last update of the day at a reasonable hour not past midnight.
     
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    • Looks like there was a slight miscalculation in your CR for the Scholarium instructors, @egoo. They're CR 8 rather than CR 9. That worked out to a 72,000 IM difference in overall cost. I increased the order of Advanced Plant-Imbued Giant Moray Eels from 20 to 50 to keep the overall cost unchanged.
     
    Abhishek M said:
    The Lotus Leshy arent Druids? Cost concerns?
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    Clerics are better for teaching, iirc..?

    We can split them 20/20/20, no biggie, but I wanted to keep ratio of arcane/divine influence they have upon what classes new images will get equal.

    Edit: Goldfish'd with practicality concerns.
    Not worth it.
     
    [X] Learn more about the political situation of the Plane of Water
    -[X] Specifically, look into the ruling trade houses - and see who might be well-disposed to support the war on Illithids, but also learning of the houses' relations and interaction with each-other - preparing the ground for later attempt at getting support against Efreeti as well.
    --[X] Additionally, look into waht each Trade House specializes in - and waht generally can be said about them, allowing us to decide on future trading partners in advance in light of some of them likely irreconcilably working agaisnt each-other.
    -[X] Same applies to local Brine Dragons - learn if any around have particular dislike for illithids and desire to see them gone.
    -[X] Also look into how Brine Dragons' feuds work according to laws and traditions. Would us helping in killing the one Relath has an eye for, be agaisnt those regulations?

    Basically, copypasted earlier vote.
    Voting on all at once, so we can think details later.
     
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    Of Soaring Towers and Anchors Deep​

    Ninth Day of the Eleventh Month 293 AC

    As is starting to become a habit in your visit here, you simply buy all the pearls with hardly a second thought. You can think of far more than three thousand people you would wish to have warning of Deep Ones lurking nearby, though odds are only a handful of your subjects will be given a pearl to hold. Most would secure doors and corridors. Breath Taker even suggested constructing free standing arches to pass people under before allowing them into more sensitive locations like inquisition headquarters or governor's palaces. The priest is practically brimming with ideas, useful of course and much appreciated, but also a sobering reminder that his people have been laboring under the fel shadow of those creatures called the Deep Ones since time out of mind.

    Gained 3000 Pearls of the Clear Sea

    Lost 150,000 IM

    Not all treachery is the province of dreadful minds from beyond the spheres of being, however, for mortals are worryingly adept at it and, as in all things, magic can help a great deal. Strange as it may be to think of protecting a dragon more than five times your age from ill-intentioned seduction, that is indeed at the forefront of your mind as you wind your way up Wavespinner's pale spire, the eyes of serpents carved in every alcove almost seeming to follow you.

    ***​

    "...so then I silenced it by the most expedient means at my disposal. I bit into it. If you remember nothing else of my visit, Wisdom, remember this; apart from being horrid parasites with delusions of grandeur, Ilithidae taste truly atrocious," the tale told in a lighthearted tone draws laughter, as others before it have, but also a cautious gleam in her sea-green eyes. It seems she understands the warning about harming those who are under your protection.

    You take a sip of your drink and wait. Blood Wine the locals call it, though it thankfully has nothing to do with blood, but instead the nodules of a particular type of kelp that grows anchored to the lowest parts of Vialesk.

    "I am not your enemy, fire-born," the sorceress says, at last abandoning the game of hints and double-meaning.

    "I never claimed you were, Wisdom," you reply instantly. If she had thought the sudden change of pace would put you off balance, then she will have to deal with disappointment.

    Wavespinner sighs, a small exhalation of bitter mist passing her lips. "I know it is uncommon for a mortal to seek to court a dragon, but I assure you I have no interest in drawing Relath from your service, nor in any way interfering with his duties. You must know how hard it is to find peers in power and accomplishment, worthy to stand at one's side. Even having found them, they are all too likely to be distracted with their own doings, ill-mannered, or too used to mastery in all things."

    You nod in cautious understanding of her point, though to your great good fortune you have never been in that position, without friends or companions at your side. No, more than that, you have never counted arcane lore or skill in battle the only worth that others might hold. How lonely it must be atop this tower, forever looking down.

    "I make no claim that my home has more great sorcerers or dragons than this sphere, but those who have gathered around my banner at least work together for the betterment of all without jealousy or arrogance," you say, convinced that her motives are genuine.

    To your surprise, the sorceress laughs. "Ah... what a strange notion you must have of me. Generous as the offer may be, it is too early to think of moving my tower just yet."

    For a moment the expression strikes you as odd, then you realize that by the magic she wields, Wavespinner might actually move her tower whole across the planes of being. Bidding farewell to the dragon-blooded mage with a far lighter heart than you had entered, you return to the market once more.

    There you find that Breath Taker had found a supplier of the Anchor Crafter Guild, who rather than forging mere ship's anchors is responsible for maintaining and at times expanding the coral and limestone foundation of the City of Splendid Waves. From them you acquire a set of cunningly wrought enchanted horns similar in function to the Titan Tools of the Opaline Vault, but working in living coral.

    Gained 2 Deep Song Horns (Coral Growth Titan Tools equivalents)

    Lost 20,160 IM

    What do you do next?

    [] Continue shopping
    -[] Write in

    [] Learn more about the political situation of the Plane of Water
    -[] Focus on the Marid Houses
    -[] Focus on the Brine Dragon Dominions

    [] Write in

    OOC: I was really tempted to try and push through with the political information, bu I would like to get back to posting the last update of the day at a reasonable hour not past midnight. Not yet edited
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
     
    Points of interest left here, iirc:
    [] Try to get Marid support against Deep Ones

    [] See if Brines (or those serving them) may be of any use against Deep Ones, and try to get them to support us if yes.

    [] Visit Moonsingers' holy star.

    [] (maybe) deal with the Brine that drew Relath's ire, and set someone else in his place.

    Anything else, that I'm forgetting?
    @Duesal?
     
    egoo said:
    We can split them 20/20/20, no biggie, but I wanted to keep ratio of arcane/divine influence they have upon what classes new images will get equal.
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    I meant the ones for guards but yeah Goldfish covered it. And what about the seaweed Druid Leshy as support? Atleast one per Manymta was the original plan right?

    Personally would not mind the cost for that many more Druids though. If we are making them anyway might as well make them casters too.

    [X] egoo
     
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    If ya'll are interested in spending a bit more money, as in 172,800 IM more, we can upgrade all of the guardian Advanced Lotus Leshy to be Druid Creatures. That leaves enough unused HD to further increase our aquatic forces, increasing Mantas from 50 to 60, Hippocampi from 780 to 900, and add 123 Advanced Druid Creature Seaweed Leshys.

    Which version do ya'll prefer? I like this one a bit more. Overall, it's only costing us around 1% of our total currency reserves.

    [] Fungal Forge Order: 11th Month
    -[] Supplementary Scholarium Instructors:
    --[] 30 Advanced Cleric Lotus Leshy (CR 8, 7 HD) - 2,400 IM each (72,000 IM)
    --[] 30 Advanced Wizard Lotus Leshy (CR 8, 7 HD) - 2,400 IM each (72,000 IM)
    -[] Heart Tree Guardians:
    --[] 52 Verdant Wolves (CR 6, 6 HD) - 936 HD consumed
    --[] 52 Advanced Druid Lotus Leshy (CR 8, 7 HD) - 2,400 IM each (124,800 IM)
    --[] 26 Druid Creature Treants (CR 10, 7 HD) - 4,800 IM each (Total: 124,800 IM)
    -[] Flesh Forge Guardians:
    --[] 20 Verdant Wolves (CR 6, 6 HD) - 360 HD consumed
    --[] 20 Advanced Druid Lotus Leshy (CR 8, 7 HD) - 2,400 IM each (48,000 IM)
    --[] 10 Druid Creature Treants (CR 10, 7 HD) - 4,800 IM each (Total: 48,000 IM)
    -[] Aquatic Forces:
    --[] 60 Advanced Plant-Imbued Gigantean Manta Ray (CR 6, 12 HD) - 2,160 HD consumed
    --[] 900 Advanced Plant-Imbued Giant Hippocampus (CR 6, 2 HD) - 5,400 HD consumed
    --[] 123 Advanced Druid Creature Seaweed Leshy (CR 6, 4 HD) - 300 HD consumed
    --[] 20 Plant-Imbued Coral Drake (CR 10, 12 HD) - 4,800 IM each (96,000 IM)
    --[] 25 Advanced Plant-Imbued Sea Drake (CR 10, 7 HD) - 4,800 IM each (120,000 IM)
    --[] 100 Advanced Plant-Imbued Orca (CR 8, 9 HD) - 2,400 IM each (Total: 240,000 IM)
    --[] 20 Advanced Plant-Imbued Druid Creature Orca (CR 10, 9 HD) - 4,800 IM each (Total: 96,000 IM)
    -[] Total Cost: 1,041,600 IM
    -[] Total HD Expenditure: 9,248
     
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    Goldfish said:
    1% of our total currency reserves.
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    Goldfish said:
    1,041,600 IM
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    Kinda fucking scary, ain't it?

    This is such an isnane amount of money...
    Well, I daresay even Lannisters can't dish out willy-nilly.
    And we are all but "throwing it around".

    God, thank the Efreeti.
    However much their ships may have broken the economy even further, they were also an awesome boost.

    I'm okay with the latest version.

    Also, vote egoo for sooner update!
     
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