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

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Well shit, we might have needed to bring more people.
Or just sacrifice it as-is.

Oh well, can't be helped.

[X] Attempt to break the enthrallment
-[X] With a miracle

Like hell are we playing along with illithids.
 
DragonParadox said:
Though he is courteous in greeting he also proves to be a man far less free with smiles and jests, insisting first of all that he is no diviner, but a precognitive. For it is the mind freed from the empire of time, not omens and portents that the githzerai look to. You, of course, correct yourself at once. You have dealt with more prideful folk with far less cause for it.
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So is he just talking nonsense?

If not, what's the mechanical difference?
 
Huh, well this is awkward. In not even compfortable moving this thing out of the snare now. Where did we keep it before? Because where ever it was it needs a thorough cleansing now.

Do we even have a way to sacrifice it here? Because one thing is for sure. I am both uncomfortable moving it and also destroying it in any way that doesnt involve a God.

Also need to get out cloak checked out now. Eugh! God knows what the think did to it.

How much would the Gith charge to get a Permanent Null Psionics Field set up in a Second Snare?
 
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With Celerity we can use miracle to use that Psionic-to-Magic spell to give it transparency and then blast it with something powerful.
 
Abhishek M said:
Huh, well this is awkward. In not even compfortable moving this thing out of the snare now. Where did we keep it before? Because where ever it was it needs a thorough cleansing now.

Do we even have a way to sacrifice it here? Because one thing is for sure. I am both uncomfortable moving it and also destroying it in any way that doesnt involve a God.

Also need to get out cloak checked out now. Eugh! God knows what the think did to it.
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Breath Taker is here. If push comes to shove he has a special dagger for the Merling King.
 
Abhishek M said:
I thought the idea was non-sentient Forge creatures to sell to beings that are in a war like that? Specifically the Gith and Azata in what's left of Elysium.
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Slowly becoming the USA, fresh and young polit, relatively isolated, rich in materials and willing to profit from anything including the wars that grind down the juggernauts of wider existence while being just far enough removed to catch up to their diminishing strength.
 
If you don't want to move the statue, you could also try getting Yss Avatar here. Though that would take quite some time as the Snare is not designed to let you out any faster then whatever you trap in it.
 
DragonParadox said:
To Snare a Wandering Mind ​

Nineteenth Day of the Eleventh Month 293 AC

The Snare has held a great many spirits over the past few months, Daemons of plague and pestilence, Abyssal generals, and on one memorable occasion one whose trophy is now a familiar weight upon your shoulders, an Arch-Duke of Hell. Yet for all the horrors of the Dark Realms that have stood in this place, there has never been one stranger than the twisted idol that now stands within the summoning circle, not that you expect it alone to contain whatever might be lurking within. With cunning wards layered upon those already anchored into the stone, and runes of death laid out so close to the line that thin arcs of sickly green light dance between them, you hope to trap any foe even as heavy lead and a protection forged by Dany upon each mind present, aught to keep any wandering seer's eyes from glimpsing what is to come.

To his credit, Master Nazath had waited patiently through all your preparations, though his eyes never strayed from the idol for a moment. Hatred smolders there, but not un-tempered by the caution and the restraint which is a hallmark of his strange mental discipline. At your nod to proceed, he steps from between Relath and Lya opposite to you. A colorless crystal ring upon his finger that you had missed before burns with white flame, the light reflected in the scores of Pearls of Clarity scattered throughout the chamber,. Hung upon chains, spread along the ground, and fused into walls, the Pearlswill detect unseen trespass from those tainted by the Far Realm, or so at least you hope.

Thereare no incantation to the githzerai master's work, nor can you sense more from it than a vague luminescence floating though the chamber despite your sharp senses humming in anticipation. His eyes remain closed, his expression serene. Turning your gaze to Jeyne, you see her watching intently, almost fearfully. She is probably getting more out of this than you.

The mind mage's robes rustle in a breeze only he can feel before he takes half a step back, his expression momentarily pained, then determined. A muscle in his jaw twitches. Abruptly his eyes snap open. "You must destroy it quickly, before it can call for aid. There is no time for gods and sacrificial daggers! The sooner it is cleansed, the sooner the peril is passed from your realm, great lord."

You open your mouth to ask for details on just what is coming. You had dealt with Mammon in this chamber, after all. If an enemy was so considerate as to give you time to prepare... But something feels odd, rather than merely disappointing about the answer. You had not mentioned any sacrificial daggers, and Nazath had not felt the need to grant you any titles when you had first met. Mayhap it was only a moment's awkwardness. Were this any other time, any other place, you would not give the matter a second thought. Here and now, however, you strain your sight to its utmost, the contours of the room almost painfully bright... there.

Thin tendrils of corpse-pallid light now bind the deformed idol to the mystic, like strings on a puppet. The subtlest you have ever seen, and all done though the mind ward. A chill runs down your spine... no, the aura is a little too bright. Hollow, false. The idol, or whatever power inhabited it, had dispelled the ward, enthralled Nazath, and spun a false aura all under the cover of his own magic. Better than the enthrallment working though the ward, but not by much.

What do you do?

[] Attempt to break the enthrallment
-[] With dispel
-[] With an antimagic field
-[] With a miracle

[] Play along, perhaps, it does not know you have seen though the guise, perhaps you might learn something of use

[] Write in

OOC: The gith did not have much luck with rolls, but Viserys rolled quite high on his sense motive so here we are. Not yet edited.
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
 
The dagger ris our best bet to get as much from this situation as safely as possible. We are on an island anyway. Holy Site Snare.

The thing even specifically mentioned not using it to destroy the thing.
 
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I would also recommend restraining the mind controlled master psionic. Or freeing him if at all possible?
 
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Artemis1992 said:
None of this needs very much power, this sounds like skill and luck.
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No, that actually does take quite a bit of power. At a minimum, those Mind Blank spells Dany cast would have had a caster level of 19 for the purpose of resisting a Dispel. If she activated her Bead of Karma in conjunction with the casting, that increases to 23.
 
Hopefully this will be quick, the connection severed by Viserys and Nazath subdued, but we're not putting all of our eggs in one Space-Time Continuum violating basket. Viserys is doing the heavy lifting, but so are Lya and Dany. That's a lot of power.

[X] Plan Taking No Chancea
-[X] Varys Telepathically warns the others with a hurried, "Nazath is possessed. Incapacitate."
-[X] Viserys nods quickly, then begins to speak, "Step back-" but does not finish, instead having simultaneously cast a Quickened Miracle via the Greater Staff of Quickening and Wild Arcana, one intended to sever the connection between the twisted idol and Nazath.
--[X] He then targets the idol with an Antimagic Ray via Wild Arcana, followed by casting Celerity and Time Stop.
---[X] Once recovered from the effects of using Celerity, Viserys cast Arcane Spellsurge then uses Miracle to duplicate a Major Creation spell in order to sheath the idol in 20 cubic feet of lead. If he has time, he uses Miracle to place a solid Force Cage around the idol.
----[X] When Time Stop ends, Viserys immediately targets Nazath with a Quickened Amber Sarcophagus spell via Miracle if he wasn't already subdued by one of the others.
-[X] Dany cancels her Sign buff to set her Initiative check result to 24, then targets Nazath with a Reached Dreamcast Smoky Confinement spell. She uses Alter Fortune as she deems necessary.
-[X] Lya cancels her Heightened Awareness buff to gain a +4 bonus to her Initiative, then targets Nazath with an Amber Sarcophagus spell via Wild Arcana. She uses Celerity or Alter Fortune as she deems necessary.
-[X] Relath uses Wings of Cover to protect anyone targeted by Nazath and Breath Taker acts as his prepared spells allow, aiming to subdue Nazath with as little harm as possible.
 
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