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

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Artemis1992 said:
@Crake
By the way, did we plan our new (relativly) Asura minion for an action this month?
I think if we forgot her again she's been living on our payment doing nothing for two and a half months.
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Last month she was supposed (and voted) to go with Ghis-group, thanks to anti-divinatory abilities, but wasn't shown on-screen IIRC.

She's included this month too tho'
Crake said:
ESSOS:
[] Chains and Collars, of Hells and Mortals: Contain the further spread of Asmodeus pawns through the actions of High-ranking Devils that haven't been dealt with the last month. Gain insight into the best approach to take over the Slavers' Bay afterward. -- A month-long action.
---- Malarys, Garin, 1 Mind Dragon, 2 Drow!Assasins, Orphne Feylord, 1 Umbral Stalker, 3 Umbral Spies, the Asura, The Misfits (3 of them - without their alchemist).
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[X] egoo

I will vote for this plan, but I would really like a blood donation tree for SD to be added to it, promoting charity is a good thing, and it would begin to get our people some more healers.
 
There's a significant "I want to steal all this blood drive blood to enact a giant city killing ritual because lol I'm a cultist/fiend" security risk component to Tarrangar's plan.
 
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Interlude DCXCIV: Hammer and Chisel
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    • Hammer and Chisel ​

    First Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

    Aboard the Golden Wind, Sea of Fire, Approaching Iron Point

    Until about half a year passed as mortals counted time and Yrten Sword-Sunder had never imagined he would have a dragon aboard his ship, much less that he would welcome it. Now here he was in the service of said dragon with another one pacing the deck and another one shrunk down to the size of the ship's cat flying around the rigging chattering at the crew. For some damn reason that was the one Siduri was most worried about too.

    "What's it about the little one that has you scorch-stepping more than the big bastard?" he finally asked the sorceress when he saw her damn near walking into one of the devils from looking up. "Is it going to start eating the crew if it gets bored?"

    "What? No, Zavaenia is as affable as she appears, it's just that she's an extraordinarily rare breed." she replied.

    "So what's that got to do with it?" the azer captain asked frowning. Siduri wasn't the sort of mage to go mad after some strange bit of lore with no use to it like a wheel-wing with a piece of fool's gold.

    "You don't understand, there aren't any records of dragons like her not because the knowledge has been lost or someone's hoarding it, but because there can't be, she's new. Zavaenia and her brothers are the only three of their breed in all of existence, the first."

    It took Yrten a moment to realize what she had said. He'd seen some of the strange creatures popping up around Sorcerer's Deep, the little mushroom-folk and wizard flowers, but to make a whole new kind of dragon. "Fuck..."

    "Please don't, I have enough to worry about without half-dragon eggs to keep an eye on," the sorceress replied, getting a rolling belly-laugh out of Yrten.

    "What about the priestess?" the captain asked thoughtfully, running his fingers through his flame-woven beard. "How long can she turn flesh to shadow, how hot do her fires burn?"

    "Long enough and hot enough, but I don't think walking flame-caster is the right role for her, even one that strikes without warning. The Lady Malisandre can exert dominion over fire and those in whose veins fire shows even deeper than I can manage. I know the dragons make it easier to ponder what to smash and sunder, but they could also be a fallback for subtler plans, yes?" Siduri asked, a devil's smile in her gaze.

    Yrten slapped the side of the ship in surprise and spit on the deck to avert ill omen for good measure. "You want to swindle the Brass Bastard out of his ships like he's some fat merchant sailing a leaky dhow."

    "The Brass Bastard isn't here, nor are his great generals or mages," the sorceress replied, motioning over the side to the waves of the Sea of Fire burning a soft garnet-red like cooling steel under a smith's hammer. "This is a sideshow for them, an irritation from the true war against the shaitan and the djinn. Let's see if we can't make it itch until it draws blood."

    "We are going to need to make port for some serious talks before we try this," Yrten replied, surprising even himself for a moment. A smile slowly grew among the flickering light of his beard. "The efreeti aren't going to let themselves be lead around by the nose for long, but if we get the ambush right... A whole squadron captured intact or near enough to sail. Hells, we could keep going with a good enough illusionist using the captured ships as bait."

    "We should probably see to the first win before planning the streak, but yeah, that's what I had in mind," Siduri answered with satisfaction. "Tried and tested tactics, just on a greater stage."

    OOC: A bit of a short update, unfortunately, but I can't really get past the planning stage on the first day of the month. The deception and subsequent battle are going to be later on.
     
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    • Thar be Mind Dragons aboard, matey! Arr!

    Sorry, sorry, couldn't help myself.
    DragonParadox said:
    ...with another one pacing the deck and another one shrunk down to the size of the ship's cat flying around the rigging chattering at the crew...
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    Now I'm really curious about the ship's cat. What kind of cat do you have on a hip like the Golden Wind? I bet it's scary.
     
    JamesShazbond said:
    Why are we collecting blood?
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    We're not, at least not yet. @tarrangar wants to start accepting small blood sacrifices via people donating to purpose grown Heart Trees, for later use to grow creatures in the Fungal Forge. I'm not outright opposed to it, but I don't think it's as simple as he is making it out to be.

    At a minimum, it would need some sort of research action, IMO, to figure out how to set the system up, get the OG on board, and implement it. If that's the case, the earliest we could begin researching it would be next month, or the months following.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    OOC: A bit of a short update, unfortunately, but I can't really get past the planing stage on the first day of the month. The deception and subsequent battle are going to be later on. Not yet edited.
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    Is Yrten able to get prize crews for those ships? We could probably work out a deal to have them renovated by Shaitan docks. Not like we can't afford it, and they can be put to use in more places than the Sea of Fire.
     
    Crake said:
    Is Yrten able to get prize crews for those ships? We could probably work out a deal to have them renovated by Shaitan docks. Not like we can't afford it, and they can be put to use in more places than the Sea of Fire.
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    We have lots of freed Azer slaves who might be willing to crew those ships temporarily.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Well it's Siduri's cat and she brought it with her from Dis. Her favorite food is skulking imps.
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    Sounds awesome.

    Funny story. I took my cat to the vet for a check-up and teeth cleaning yesterday. She was understandably pissed off when I came to pick her up. One of the vets offered to help me load her into her carrier, then before I could tell him not to worry about it, he reached into a drawer and pulled out a pair of elbow length heavy duty gloves, which he claimed were kevlar-lined. Moral of the story...there's a man who doesn't underestimate the CR of the common house cat.
     
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    Goldfish said:
    Sounds awesome.

    Funny story. I took my cat to the vet for a check-up and teeth cleaning yesterday. She was understandably pissed off when I came to pick her up. One of the vets offered to help me load her into her carrier, then before I could tell him not to worry about it, he reached into a drawer and pulled out a pair of elbow length heavy duty gloves, which he claimed were kevlar-lined. Moral of the story...there's a man who doesn't underestimate the CR of the common house cat.
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    Cats are vicious little bastards. He is a smart man. I respect his wariness
     
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    DragonParadox said:
    The Blackfish up the Mountain Swimming: Amid mounting raids Ser Brynden Tully, Knight of the Bloody Gate, has pledged to bring the Sons of the Mist and their witch to heel, though he has publicly proclaimed that he will take not aid from Tywin Lannister whom he has named responsible for the abandonment of the Vale Lords by the king. Though the Blackfish did not say so in as many words the implication is clear, in binding Jon Arryn to King's Landing as Hand he was forced to neglect his own vassals while attempting to stymie Lannister influence. The Vale, which is to say young Robert Arryn, will take no Lannister and no Lannister wizards as they drive back the clansmen just as they had done in ages past. A discrete message from Yohn Royce reveals more of the Brynden Tully's plans, he aims to go to Oldtown to speak to the Lantern Bearers, seeking magic with which to counter Dala and other sorcerers of the clans. According to the House of Mirrors other agents, however, may head east instead...

    Tourney of the Sun: Prince Doran is holding a tourney for his vassal lords and any other knights who care to join, though given that he is out of favor with the crown and not known for lavish spending it is thought not many from beyond Dorne's borders will ride to Sunspear. The Prince of Dorne has explained in confidence that the tourney is a means by which he might personally and safely explain the changes of the age to his vassal lords and share lore of fiends and horrors with them in a way that will impress upon them the gravity of the situation.

    With Book and Blade: Rodrik 'the Reader', a man disdained in many of his fellow Ironborn for his love of books and foreign ways as well as his conflicts with the Drowned Men, has put the seat of another ancient House to the torch, though this time strangely with the lady regent of the House at his side. Lady Joana Volmark was said to have sneaked into Pyke alone while carrying her young son, claiming that Volmark Keep has been overrun with monsters from the depths. What followed was a swift and brutal campaign where three of the young lord's uncles proclaimed his mother a traitor and in league with enemies of the Drowned God only to fall one by one to the Regent's men, the last by his own hand. Each was revealed in death to be not a man at all but some sort of hairless shape-shifting monster. The sight of the horrors and the implication that they might be next has shaken the faith of many still opposed to the Reader's rule and only hardened the resolve of his allies.

    By brazier the Lord Regent of Pyke has contacted you with news that the happenings were both more terrible and more heartening still. Ser Harras Harlaw, Knight of Grey Garden, together with a group of trusted armsmen, a pair of Lantern Bearers and even a lone Pyromancer have slain a cabal of four Eaters of Minds, capturing what appears to be a sanctum of their magic and several children who have been experimented upon... as was the young Maron Volmark before his mother smuggled him to safety. The children do not appear to be a danger, but he requests an expert to verify this one way or another.
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    So... do you guys want Viserys to do something about these events at all? Because they aren't mentioned in the minor actions at all.
     
    TheOneWhoLurks said:
    [X] egoo



    So... do you guys want Viserys to do something about these events at all? Because they aren't mentioned in the minor actions at all.
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    What Crake said.

    Also, I turn my brain off whenever Westeros comes up, so I have no idea what to do at any given purely political Westerosi matter, like the tourney and this Tully guys.
    If anyone wants to do stuff in Westeros you guys better throw already written-up ideas at me.

    Also also, Rodrik's problems will be brought up shortly according to DP, so no need to add them to MAs.
     
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    Crake said:
    It's not super pressing.
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    egoo said:
    What Crake said.

    Also, I turn my brain off whether Westeros comes up, so I have no idea what to do at any given purely political Westerosi matter, like the tourney and this Tully guys.
    If anyone wants to do stuff in Westeros you guys better throw already written-up ideas at me.

    Also also, Rodrik's problems will be brought up shortly according to DP, so no need to add them to MAs.
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    Okay then, thanks for answering. I figured Dorne and the Vale weren't really urgent right now but it's good to know that the stuff at Iron Islands will be brought up soon.
     
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