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

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DragonParadox said:
"Oh never mind the bowing, it takes your eyes off the sky and that's a shame here," the sorceress waved him off. Then her smile growing a little she added in an almost conspiratorial voice. "Thinking of riding soon?"

"I... maybe next month, I'm not sure I'm ready." There was something dark behind his gaze, something worse than a moment's shyness, but she did not probe. Nightmares were dreams also and they too were the heritage of the Dragonlords.

"I do not think anyone is ever ready for their first time, to fly is to be master of all that stretches out before you and yet at the mercy of the fickle wind," she replied. "Master what you can, accept what you cannot."

Silence fell then, deep but not uncomfortable, as two pairs of eyes turned heavenward to the dance of wing and flame.
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Valaena to Joran, when he first takes wing: "I see you have taken flight already. Your skills are complete. It seems you are as powerful as the Emperor has foreseen."
 
Isn't Yss coiling around SD's Dreamlands keep pretty much all the monsters away?
Or is she going so much further out of it, then?
 
Duesal said:
... Just checking, but is she adept enough in the dreamscape to run if something like say, a Nightmare Dragon, decides to show up? It would be unfortunate if we lost her in the middle of what was meant to be relatively safe research.
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One of the first things we learned about the Dream Lands was that if you are big and flashy, you leave a bigger "wake" and thus everyone for huge "relative areas" can sense your presence there.

So it's less her being able to run away, and more her knowing the thing is coming from quite a distance. Unless it's more subtle gribblies, nothing too dangerous should be able to sneak up on her.
 
Crake said:
One of the first things we learned about the Dream Lands was that if you are big and flashy, you leave a bigger "wake" and thus everyone for huge "relative areas" can sense your presence there.

So it's less her being able to run away, and more her knowing the thing is coming from quite a distance. Unless it's more subtle gribblies, nothing too dangerous should be able to sneak up on her.
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Fingers crossed for no terrible encounter rolls, then. @DragonParadox, as part of her report, can we have a detailed summarization of the dreamscape of Sorcerer's Deep itself? The effects of Yss' protection, what the Tree of the Dawn Age looks like on the other side, the effects of Zathir's presence, the temples of the various approved gods, the dreams of the citizens, etc.
Crake said:
One of the first things we learned about the Dream Lands was that if you are big and flashy, you leave a bigger "wake" and thus everyone for huge "relative areas" can sense your presence there.

So it's less her being able to run away, and more her knowing the thing is coming from quite a distance. Unless it's more subtle gribblies, nothing too dangerous should be able to sneak up on her.
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That's true for people of the waking world, but that's a lot less true for things born of the dreamscape itself. There's an inborn skill that allows them to leave a lot less ripples. For example, when we fought the Nightmare Dragon it wasn't there before, it just showed up after we shed blood in a fight. We couldn't sense it. Heck, Dany couldn't sense it. We only realized what we were dealing with when it transformed in front of us.
 
Oh, shit...Quori. My Eberron lore is extremely weak, but I remember those things are bad, bad news. Are they regularly accessing the Material Plane, @DragonParadox? Or are they largely confined to the Dreamlands?

I bet there is a Quori dominated land on the other side of Sothoryos. :o
 
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  • [X] Decline the letter but thank him for the warning. Ser Brynden is probably someone more set with the 'proper way' of going about things, and you have enough working against you in attempting to do things the 'proper way'. Probably not enough to earn the Blackwood heir's enmity considering all the other things about your rule there is to consider, especially in relation to his own House, but enough to make him hesitate already.
    -[X] You will present it in the plainest terms for his benefit. You are already one leg over the finish line here, where before Hoster had nothing to offer but idealism and scant hopes. With the Crown arbitrating the matter in a way that is just and fair, leaving neither side feeling like they were shorted from the more 'material' concerns of the matter, the rest of the feud, fueled by the bitter hatred of one old man from the past, can finally be laid to rest.
    -[X] You have your arguments readied for how both sides might benefit already. You have your own convictions for why peace should be kept, and cogently point out that no one is going to have much time to try killing each other anyway given the pace with which you move in any conquest you've undertaken thus far, you need only look to Essos to see the truth of that.
    -[X] If Blackwood and Bracken attempt to settle their feud with any degree of urgency before then, it would be the surest madness of the entire matter despite all evidence that it serves neither House to feed into it further. Hence your efforts to try to get both sides of the dispute looking to the future, secure in the knowledge the past is a matter of history, to be learned from, but only in how to avoid repeating mistakes.
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@DragonParadox If Dreamlands natives have some kind of stealth field generator like @Duesal described, could we research a method to detect them by sensing for other fluctuations? They weren't present before, so they are doing SOMETHING to will themselves into position to attack. If we could even come up with an effect similar to Anticipate Teleport but for this kind of transition that would be ideal.
 
Crake said:
@DragonParadox If Dreamlands natives have some kind of stealth field generator like @Duesal described, could we research a method to detect them by sensing for other fluctuations? They weren't present before, so they are doing SOMETHING to will themselves into position to attack. If we could even come up with an effect similar to Anticipate Teleport but for this kind of transition that would be ideal.
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AFAIK mechanically that's all skill checks. You're asking for a Concentration-boosting item.
 
[X] Decline the letter but thank him for the warning. Ser Brynden is probably someone more set with the 'proper way' of going about things, and you have enough working against you in attempting to do things the 'proper way'. Probably not enough to earn the Blackwood heir's enmity considering all the other things about your rule there is to consider, especially in relation to his own House, but enough to make him hesitate already.
-[X] You will present it in the plainest terms for his benefit. You are already one leg over the finish line here, where before Hoster had nothing to offer but idealism and scant hopes. With the Crown arbitrating the matter in a way that is just and fair, leaving neither side feeling like they were shorted from the more 'material' concerns of the matter, the rest of the feud, fueled by the bitter hatred of one old man from the past, can finally be laid to rest.
-[X] You have your arguments readied for how both sides might benefit already. You have your own convictions for why peace should be kept. You need only find the final points upon which a true compromise hinges, one that will not be driven home only by spite and the will of one House or another ever seeking to get the last blow to the other's pride in.
 
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