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

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Unless they have something truly unique, we do not need to buy war beasts for our Tritons. We can make them cheaper and invariably better these days.
 
Y'all think we should include an Overseer Fungus Leahy with the group we're assigning to Vialisk's waste disposal department?

We could advance a Fungus Leshy to 9 HD, slap the Advanced template on it, plus the Rogue Creature and Sorcerer Creature templates, and end up with a CR 10 Super Ninja-Mage Fungus Leshy.

Not that we need a spy within Vialisk, but it would have a good chance of learning all sorts of interesting stuff. People don't pay much attention to the help, especially when they look like gross mushroom men, and lots of interesting gets thrown away by people without them realizing what it can tell someone willing to dig through the stuff. It would cost 4,800 IM.

Thoughts?
 
Goldfish said:
Y'all think we should include an Overseer Fungus Leahy with the group we're assigning to Vialisk's waste disposal department?

We could advance a Fungus Leshy to 9 HD, slap the Advanced template on it, plus the Rogue Creature and Sorcerer Creature templates, and end up with a CR 10 Super Ninja-Mage Fungus Leshy.

Not that we need a spy within Vialisk, but it would have a good chance of learning all sorts of interesting stuff. People don't pay much attention to the help, especially when they look like gross mushroom men, and lots of interesting gets thrown away by people without them realizing what it can tell someone willing to dig through the stuff. It would cost 4,800 IM.

Thoughts?
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Yeah, sure, fire away.

It's not like they wouldn't expect something suspicious from Leshies anyway if they are anywhat competent.

We can afford adding someone who'll ne better predisposed to solving interpersonal problems that may arise with Leshies' employment too.
 
Bottom line, we want to look for any unique seaborn creatures and/or warbeasts as Fleshforge-fodder and breeding stock.

A Deep Sea Serpent would be bullshit, but we could afford one as a matter of fact.
So better to roll and fail than not to roll at all.
 
I've updated my plan with the Overseer included.

We should give the Fungal Overseer a code name...perhaps Solid Snake? Seems pretty appropriate for a spy working as a sanitation engineer! Get it? :p

[X] Mention Fungus Leshy to the Grandmaster. They are sentient beings, so we cannot in good conscience sell them to Vialisk, but they are simple beings with simple needs capable of producing abundant fertilizer from what would otherwise be considered garbage. So long as they are treated well, we would not be adverse to assigning them to aid the Grandmaster's efforts.
-[X] Ask him if he would like us to grow a large number of Fungus Leshy to aid in waste disposal for Vialisk.
--[X] Each Fungus Leshy costs us 300 IM. In the spirit of cooperation and good will, we will supply Vialisk with 50 of them free of charge, costing us 15,000 IM. If more are needed, he is welcome to pay 300 IM each, but with the understanding that the Fungus Leshy will remain in our service and can return to the Garden whenever they choose.
---[X] We will also send an Overseer Fungus Leshy to act as a manager for its lesser brethren and an intermediary contact with the officials in Vialisk. It will also act as a spy, passively gathering information about Vialisk, focusing on the "underbelly" of the city, including any criminal activity it can discover, as well as anything interesting the other Leshy see, hear, or find in the trash.
----[X] The Fungal Overseer (an Advanced Plant-Imbued Rogue Creature Fungus Leshy which has been advanced to 9 HD) will be CR 10 and cost 4,800 IM.
-[X] Total Cost: 19,800 IM
 
@Goldfish, please no Leshies. They're sentient beings. We literally just agreed not to sell them here.

Furthermore, D&D 3.5 already has a trash-talk for creature. It's called an Otyugh. Just make a bunch of plant ones and voilà !
 
As it turns out that's redundant, Otyugh's are also intelligent creatures despite appearances, if exactly as simple-minded as Fungal Leshys.

Moreover, they're aberrations, and I don't think we can throw together those. Too weird.
 
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@Goldfish I do agree on not even leasing out Leshys to a bunch of strangers and calling it "borrowing" ahead of their even being created. If we had some that we negotiated a deal with ahead of offering, that would be different, but this has an air of Pentoshi Bondsmen, a concept that we ridiculed countless times.

We should just make some kind of garbage eating creature with iron stomachs. You know I doubt these guys have ever seen a pig?

Is there some kind of template that would let pigs eat from "almost anything" to "literally anything"?

Maybe we should research a template specifically to not only recycle tons of stuff, but turn it into something useful? Leshys already pretty much do that, so we may not even need to.
 
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@Crake, @TalonofAnathrax, ya'll make me sad. I was all set to see Solid Snake interludes in Vialisk...

I suppose we could just supply the Grandmaster with one or more Black Puddings, using the Titan's Tools to form a stone receptacle pit large enough to contain them. They're pretty much perfect for the job, it even says so in their flavor text. There are probably Black Puddings we could harvest in the Serpentfolk Necropolis. If not, we can probably grow a fungal version in the Fungal Forge.
Black puddings are the scavengers of the underworld, constantly on the lookout for a meal. They can sense organic or metallic objects within 60 feet and mindlessly attack such items or beings until they are dissolved or the ooze is killed. A black pudding reproduces by breaking off a piece of its body and forming a new, smaller black pudding, which grows to full size in 1 month's time. Some of the more intelligent creatures in the underworld use black puddings as natural garbage disposals, creating stone pits to house the pudding and throwing organic refuse or foes in as needed.
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@Shador, @RedWitch, @Duesal, @enigma1995, @Abhishek M, @egoo, @silvanknight, @Artemis1992, @Crake, @Nickan, @canute, @Absylon Quilby, @Massgamer, updating my plan to a more Leshy friendly option.

Farewell Solid Snake, you never existed, but your hypothetical adventures will live on in my memory. Until I forget you...

[X] Offer to grow Fungal equivalents of Black Puddings for the Grandmaster's organization. If he believes the Fungal Puddings could be useful, we will supply Vialisk with them and provide assistance in creating a safe enclosure to contain them while allowing for easy waste disposal/feeding.
 
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[X] Goldfish
While oozes seems like the obvious solution to a sewer problem, I don't see them producing anything of worth and reproduce kinda easily.
 
@Goldfish If we make a fungal version of those Puddings, we can piggyback off our preexisting knowledge of creating bio-organic growth material that we definitely have from Fungus Leshys. Really anything non-intelligent capable of producing that effect is exactly what they're asking for, and I don't think we need to research this subject, so we should be able to offer something.
 
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@Goldfish If we make a fungal version of those Puddings, we can piggyback off our preexisting knowledge of creating bio-organic growth material that we definitely have from Fungus Leshys. Really anything non-intelligent capable of producing that effect is exactly what they're asking for, and I don't think we need to research this subject, so we should be able to offer something.
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Think we should just skip directly to making a fungal version of a Black Pudding then? We can probably manage it.
 
Goldfish said:
Think we should just skip directly to making a fungal version of a Black Pudding then? We can probably manage it.
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I think we could do something like it, if not. Oozes are kinda weird, but not aberration weird. More wild-magic weird. But we do have several examples of them.
 
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@Goldfish, Mussels! They have oysters, because pearls. But mussels surely can exist on the Matrerial plane only. They need sunlight and tides to exist.
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But they wouldn't be able to fully process the waste products from a city as large and populous as Vialisk, and certainly not fast enough.

They would also require a huge amount of space to support the necessary number of mussels needed to handle the waste, if an environment nearby would even support them. The Plane of Water lacks sunlight and tides.

The Fungal Black Puddings just need a few deep stone pots to hold them.
 
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