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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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That's the idea, yeah.
Part MMMCCXXII: A Tale of Stone and Silk
A Tale of Stone and Silk
Twenty Fifth Day of the Eleventh Month 293 AC
You have hosted lords, magisters, archons and princes, but rarely have you hosted a king in Sorcerer's Deep. Granted, Mance Rayder is king of a few thousand Free Folk poor in gold and fine swords alike that many south of the Wall would scoff at calling lord, much less king, but the fact of the matter remains that he has gained the confidence of many of the stubborn and hardheaded northern wanderers and manged to keep them together in spite of the feuds that bubble close to the surface.
Before you can speak to the would-be King-Beyond-the-Wall of your promise to the Night's Watch or the looming threat of Winter, you seek out Vee and Waymar to see what if anything more they had learned of the mystery of Hardhome and the monster that had lain at its heart.
"The ravens have come back to Hardhome, but Bloodraven says there's still something strange in the air there, sort of a lingering bitterness that makes beasts uneasy," Vee explains. "Birds especially."
"The air is Their domain," Waymar puts in. Frowning he adds, "Only we've found no trace of Winter's power in the whole business past the the fog and the ice, six hundred years ago according to Yara. The fire and the ghouls, all of it was Drokha's work. Wishcraft gone amok is Amrelath's guess, along with some pithy comments about handing too much power to mortals."
"I can imagine," you snort. "You said Mance's cloak, mended with Asshai'i silk, did something odd when the dead mage was finally brought to bay?"
"Near as I can tell the cloak killed 'im," Vee explains. "He was pretty beaten up mind, but the silk sort of burned like fire and wind blew through the caves tossing, 'im against the rocks."
"Did it do anything else magical?" you ask intrigued.
"It bled when we got near the tainted jade in the quarry..." Vee trails off, then curses under her breath. "Should've seen it before. Drokha said something about the white tree being weak and only the black living, the jade in the rock at the old quarry looked sort of like a tree and it was black as pitch."
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One look at the veins of black stone snaking through the earth is enough to prove Vee's suspicion right, there is power here, slumbering and unfocused with none to draw it forth, but if left to endure you have no doubt it would ensnare some other damned soul to 'battle Winter'. "It is here, as much as any Ice Dragon's heart," you confirm, refraining from addressing your foe directly north of Brandon's Wall. Carefully shaping the common rock away from the jade you are left with a surprisingly small amount of the cursed stone.
As you and Vee begin to gather the pieces in a warded lead chest Waymar recalls something in turn. "Black Jade, the called it unlucky in Yi Ti, maybe even cursed, but there wasn't much about it in the books Tyene bought there last month, just parables and fables. 'Course our Calligraphy Wyrms could have missed something . The little fellows are hardworking as a bee in summertime reading or writing, but they aren't perfect."
Gained 20 lbs of Void-Touched Jade (Equivalent CL 15)
"The doom of Hardhome came from the east, but given the cloak warned of the presence of the corruption and something about it killed Drokha so it was its salvation, in a manner of speaking," you muse. "I think it is time to have a look at Mance Rayder's cloak as much as the man himself."
What do you do?
[] Speak to Mance Rayder
-[] About borrowing or buying the cloak
-[] About your pledge to move the Free Folk south before Winter
[] Speak to Yara the Shadowcat Shapeshifter
-[] Ask why she patched Mance's cloak in particular
-[] See if she might wish to pledge fealty
[] Write in
OOC: And here we are, wisdom saves passed, tainted jade recovered and birds no longer uneasy in Hardhome. Initially the jade had been dismissed as simply a means by which Drokha's influence manifested, not a medium by which he was himself influenced.
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Now this is going to be very useful. @DragonParadox, I don't suppose we can hit this with Legend Lore?
Unfortunately not, it does not appear to be legendary enough to trigger the spell in and of itself.
lockingbane
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What about the cloak and the jade together? From the sounds of things they are two parts of the tale and together they might reveal what one could not...
egoo
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Would this be useful for the Djinn Cryomancers' project, the one where they tried to figure out how to "cleanse" void-corruption off Winter Court and void-touched in general?
They needed test subjects, but this, too, seems really fitting.
@DragonParadox?
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Goldfish
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[X] Do Both
-[X] Speak to Mance Rayder
--[X] About borrowing or buying the cloak
--[X] About your pledge to move the Free Folk south before Winter
-[X] Speak to Yara the Shadowcat Shapeshifter
--[X] Ask why she patched Mance's cloak in particular
--[X] See if she might wish to pledge fealty
-[X] Speak to Mance Rayder
--[X] About borrowing or buying the cloak
--[X] About your pledge to move the Free Folk south before Winter
-[X] Speak to Yara the Shadowcat Shapeshifter
--[X] Ask why she patched Mance's cloak in particular
--[X] See if she might wish to pledge fealty
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Should at the very least help them identify which void separate from any Winter traits their current sample might have.
A pure void sample should help differentiate it from other powers. Get an Idea of what is Winter and what is Void.
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The cloak might work but you would have to get it off Mance first
It might help yes.
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egoo
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@Duesal, no objections to handing it over to them for a month or two, while we have no clear project to use it in mind?
It'd be an amazing material, eventually, but I'd really like to boost their research as much as we can, while we can get that freebie.
So much so, in fact, that I'd like to have us hunt some Winter-touched Beyond the Wall next month, after Timmie is dealt with...
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So next month you guys want to make a run of the Fey Courts in Westros? Like we just did for the Riverland Lords? I liked that one court we saw this turn. Might try to recruit them all. Or kill the unseemlie ones.
egoo
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Eh, most of the month's gonna be Timmie, I'm afraid.
And even if she won't take too much time - we still have more Lords to turn, and I'm sure @Crake already lined up some for us.
If we will have some free time, the Courts of the Wild and Goldengrove might be good.
Court of Depths may be useful as additional deterrent to Deep Ones if we succeed in nabbing them, too. At least in keeping watch on coastal areas of Westeros, if nothing else.
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I don't care what this is used for, but what research action is this? Thus far we've only had a joint action to poke the Heart of Winter. When did that evolve into the Djinn researching how to purge the Void from Others?
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egoo
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Erm.
I'd find it hard to find quotes right now, but so far we interacted with Djinn Criomancers on 3 projects:
1) Heart of WInter - success, they found how to use it without fucking shit up - Needs a wielder with White Chromatic ancestry.
2) Those talismans giving the agility-related feats, but cursing the wielders - So far no great progress, they are working on it.
3) Finding more on the Winter meshing with the Void, and possibly how to cleanse it - We sent Rina to help with that, and they got all they could from her tattered connection.
(We also had Danelle sent her Other-blooded companion to Djinn, and by now Brann is probably in AK, halping Djinn with his tattered connection.)
DP ruled, that we need live specimen for Djinn to get further insights on the matter - but since this Jade works as well...
Well, it's a start, beyond making a hunting trip Beyond the Wall.
@DragonParadox, am I right on these points?
I think I am, but, well...
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My stance is as long as it does not get consumed and we get it back they can have it for a few months.
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Well, the clock is ticking on clearing out the barrows in the Thenns before the Others inevitably swoop down and claim everything inside. If we're lucky/unlucky we'll find something there.
You are yes, though as a note, the jade is useful but not quite in the same way as a live test subject, so if you guys do find one the Djinn would consider it useful
On another note Morwyn and Tuin moved off the mystical subject sheet and added to the proper adventurer sheet here, with a blurb and picture.
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@DragonParadox, what would we need to do to bring back the apparently devoutly anti-Lolth cleric currently bound to the Drow Staff? We've already done a hell of a lot of research with binding old souls to new bodies (Amrelath, Anu the Warforged, Laenor Targaryen, the Caleris family, etc) and we've got mastery of the Flesh Forge of Gogossos. What else would we need to get this to work?
The problem with her is not so much the body, Lya can throw together a female drow body easily enough using Tuin and Morwyn as templates as the fact that the soul itself is significantly degraded and needs patching for lack of a better word. That is going to take not so much research on how to do it, but actual time doing it, about 15 points of progress so a proper researcher can do it in one moth with average rolls.
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Not too bad. Hardly urgent and likely not going to happen for at least the next four months, but I'm glad this is doable.