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

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...Oh wow, hey there, free sacrifices to throw at Merling King... and our own research of Psionics and anti-Illithid weaponry.

These things can be immeasurably helpful testbed for anything we cook up.
Just gotta ensure we can create a completely psi-isolated location to grow them in.

There's an RA to grow artificial brain-like mass for Mimic to feed on - I bet these things can be grown off it as well.

Hell, with tiny Illithids one can attempt even making a non-asshole variants of them.
We won't be going that far in sheer hubris of course... But the possibility is there.
 
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[X] Press on to the dragon's lair. Time spent dealing with lesser servitors and failed experiments simply gives Fearex more time to prepare for our arrival.
-[X] In addition to all relevant combat buffs, Lya will cast Mass Resist Energy (Cold and Sonic), while Dany casts a Chained Reached Energy Immunity (Acid) spell on everyone. Viserys, Dany, and Lya each cast True Seeing on themselves, via prepared spell or Blood Wish, and Lya uses a True Seeing scroll on Relath. Lastly, Viserys casts a Globe of Tranquil Water spell via Blood Wish, then uses his Orb of Mental Renewal to heal his Charisma damage.
 
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DragonParadox said:
The 'soil' around here is made of salt, brimstone, death with a sprinkling of Far Realm corruption. Just adding new soil to that will only spread the corruption, you would need to figure out a way to isolate the tree from the unfortunate effects of all that, while allowing it to draw in power and magic to purify, no small feat.



That works though keep in midn you are creating an almost inhumanly smart creature here. They are going to ask for pay and days off.
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That's cool. With an Intelligence attribute of 20, it only makes sense that it would be a more complex being. Pay, days off, and fair treatment under the law are just standard at this point.

Since it's Incorporeal, how much would you charge extra to make gear it can use, if it's even possible?
 
DragonParadox said:
The 'soil' around here is made of salt, brimstone, death with a sprinkling of Far Realm corruption. Just adding new soil to that will only spread the corruption, you would need to figure out a way to isolate the tree from the unfortunate effects of all that, while allowing it to draw in power and magic to purify, no small feat.
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Hmm sounds like a sacrifice to the Merling King for purified sea soil and then a weir wood tree on said soil with the ghosts being sacrificed to said tree to purify the soil further. Either that or we just leave this hell hole be...though it would be a nice base of operations in the Plane of Water.
 
DragonParadox said:
The 'soil' around here is made of salt, brimstone, death with a sprinkling of Far Realm corruption. Just adding new soil to that will only spread the corruption, you would need to figure out a way to isolate the tree from the unfortunate effects of all that, while allowing it to draw in power and magic to purify, no small feat.
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That's not all that hard, it just mean that instead of just having to bring something to stand on, we have to bring a sufficiently thick stone box, partly filled with soil, but with enough room for the Weirwood itself, if neccesary we add thin lead plating, to prevent the corruption from seeping in, of course there will still need to be an entrance so the spirits can get in, but preventing corruption from getting though a small door, is much easier than preventing it from seeping in from everywhere.
 
tarrangar said:
That's not all that hard, it just mean that instead of just having to bring something to stand on, we have to bring a sufficiently thick stone box, partly filled with soil, but with enough room for the Weirwood itself, if neccesary we add thin lead plating, to prevent the corruption from seeping in, of course there will still need to be an entrance so the spirits can get in, but preventing corruption from getting though a small door, is much easier than preventing it from seeping in from everywhere.
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You can't grow a heart tree tree in a planter box unfortunately, it needs to be rooted in whatever place you put it in, hence it will need more arcane protections.
 
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You can't grow a heart tree tree in a planter box unfortunately, it needs to be rooted in whatever place you put it in, hence it will need more arcane protections.
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How many roots do it need to have in whatever place we put it in? Because the planter box can still be used to protect the trunk, if it can make do with a few roots outside the planter box, then we can focus protection on just the areas those roots are in, instead of needing to make protections for the whole area.

Basically can we put it in a Planter box, with 3-5 holes for the roots to poke out though, then only have to make protections for those 3-5 roots?

Even better if it can make do with 1 root outside the Planter box, there need to be some way for it to feed on the corrupt energy anyway, it's just that protecting a huge area, is harder than protecting a small area.
 
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tarrangar said:
How many roots do it need to have in whatever place we put it in? Because the planter box can still be used to protect the trunk, if it can make do with a few roots outside the planter box, then we can focus protection on just the areas those roots are in, instead of needing to make protections for the whole area.

Basically can we put it in a Planter box, with 3-5 holes for the roots to poke out though, then only have to make protections for those 3-5 roots?
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You could do that but it would not significantly help. Think of the corruption of the Sea of Wraiths like an illness. If there is an infection vector and you are not immune it does not matter if that is one vector or ten thousand, one is enough to do you in, so in order to operate in this hostile environment you need a magic vaccine. Once you have that you can just stick all the roots in the soil.
 
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You could do that but it would not significantly help. Think of the corruption of the Sea of Wraiths like an illness. If there is an infection vector and you are not immune it does not matter if that is one vector or ten thousand, one is enough to do you in, so in order to operate in this hostile environment you need a magic vaccine. Once you have that you can just stick all the roots in the soil.
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How are we alive in the Sea of Wraiths then? We don't even seem to be affected by it, if it's due to our buffs, then we could just make those buffs the effect of the Weirwood.

Seeing as we don't seem affected, I assumed it was more of a build-up of poisons, and in such a case minimizing exposure would work.
 
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How are we alive in the Sea of Wraiths then? We don't even seem to be affected by it, if it's due to our buffs, then we could just make those buffs the effect of the Weirwood.

Seeing as we don't seem affected, I assumed it was more of a build-up of poisons, and in such a case minimizing exposure would work.
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Well Viserys is not a magical lifeforms that derives its sustenance by becoming deeply entwined with his environment as a weirood tree is. Such trees are uniquely vulnerable to pervasive corruption.
 
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Well Viserys is not a magical lifeforms that derives its sustenance by becoming deeply entwined with his environment as a weirood tree is. Such trees are uniquely vulnerable to pervasive corruption.
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How are they able to grow in Valyria then? Also I think if they're that vulnerable to such corruption, then that mean we will have to research a resistance anyway, otherwise it's a way for the Illithids to attack us.
 
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