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[x] Goldfish
You really want to earthquake the place, huh?
You really want to earthquake the place, huh?
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Goldfish
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If they're in the house, the Earthquake will either catch them completely by surprise and trap or kill them via collapsed rubble, or prompt those who are capable to attempt to do an emergency Teleport to escape.
It would be ideal if they used Celerity, since they would arrive in our trap while Stunned for one round.
And it can easily be passed off as an act of the Kami, so our anonymity is easier to preserve.
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Goldfish
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That's actually exactly what we've already put in place. The moment anyone tries to use Teleportation magic within the house or a significant area around, above, or below it, they will instead be transported to our prepared ambush spot.
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That's actually exactly what we've already put in place. The moment anyone tries to use Teleportation magic within the house or a significant area around, above, or below it, they will instead be transported to our prepared ambush spot.
Excellent. I look forward to their suffering.
- Location
- Germany
[x] Goldfish
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
Imagine Viserys sticking his head through the bathroom door like Jack Nicholson lugging a wood axe.
Murderous grin included.
[X] Goldfish
*rolls knowledge religion on Tyene*
Not that big of a way actually. The kami usually only pay attention to their area of interest (so the kami of the general's house if he had any) or in rare cases the Shugenja they adopt. It would take something considerably more intrusive than some fire magic being thrown around to wake large number of kami without shugenja to call them forth.
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- Germany
Kami really remind me of Fey so far.
Specifically guardian fey, like hearthguards in a house or Dryads caring for a part of their forest, that direction.
I wonder if lesser spirits that would become Fey in Westeros or Essos are actually becoming Kami due to worship in Yi-Ti, but before that human-caused split they were essentially the same?
Specifically guardian fey, like hearthguards in a house or Dryads caring for a part of their forest, that direction.
I wonder if lesser spirits that would become Fey in Westeros or Essos are actually becoming Kami due to worship in Yi-Ti, but before that human-caused split they were essentially the same?
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Context also matters. Manifesting spirits also have ties to the land itself, if Kami would have formed in Westeros and Essos, other stuff which had a unifying origin in primordial times but then split development already occupy those metaphysical demesnes, so therefore a Kami can't manifest where there's a precedent for pre-existing myths and legends surrounding the place in question.
Basically, fey are tied to the land, which is why you can't just get rid of them without doing basically what the Dragons did, burning a land to the bedrock so hard that you literally scrub every metaphysical link it bore, but also made it essentially completely barren and uninhabitable in every respect, with nothing, not Void-taint and certainly not nature, able to get a foothold over it.
Basically, fey are tied to the land, which is why you can't just get rid of them without doing basically what the Dragons did, burning a land to the bedrock so hard that you literally scrub every metaphysical link it bore, but also made it essentially completely barren and uninhabitable in every respect, with nothing, not Void-taint and certainly not nature, able to get a foothold over it.
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I think you can, to some degree, cow and disorganise them by killing enough Fey Lords/Ladys or eventually a King or Queen.
The Valyrians brought the Rhoynar region under control well enough without burning it to the bare rock.
Our new vassal Silore is an example of that, a fey that preferred to wait out the Valyrians after they made examples of other fey, instead of fighting against the overwhelming power.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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That's basically just going to ground, though, getting annoyed with being stomped on repeatedly and dipping out back into the Feywild except for when there's something you want. Best of a bad bargain if you risk the prime real estate being turned into a toasty briquette if you go full ham and cheese against whatever is annoying you. It doesn't mean you can't pop back in and take over where you left off, you just have to wait for whatever evil empire was after your jock to get wiped out. Happens all the time.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
Well the hope is that someone will eat a Stun to Celerity into Teleport... right into a Teleport Trap. And then we gank them.
Goldfish
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That's why Viserys is sending in Janni scouts to check out the place before, during, and after the Earthquake hits. They'll be able to look for tunnels and survivors. I don't expect anyone to be killed, though. Possibly trapped, but more likely fled using Teleportation magic.
The reason I don't want to us go into the house to attack directly is because it sounds like a perfect place for an ambush or trap of their own. If I was using the house like they are, I would load it up with Glyphs of Warding, Symbols of various sorts, Ghoul Glyphs, etc., just waiting for it to be raided by pissed off Trader Town guards and mages.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Also, the update where Viserys nuked the Cleric of Asmodeus' hideout and he came out pissed off with all of his tricks rendered irrelevant comes to mind.
When a villain immediately starts their monologue off with "YOU'RE TOO LATE" you know you just fucked them up two ways to Sunday. Possibly why BTFO-ing the encounter with UNLIMITED POWAH from round 1 is so satisfying.
Goldfish
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Something like this?
[X] Scout the townhouse to learn if our foes have already escaped by unseen means.
-[X] Viserys casts Scintillating Scales, Shield, and Greater Arcane Sight so that Varys may benefit from them, Lya uses scrolls of Superior Invisibility and Mind Blank on her, and Varys herself activates her various enchanted items. She'll fly within range of the townhouse to determine how many unwarded minds might wait within, as well as any spells which may have been used to ward it.
--[X] Viserys expands an 8th level spell slot to cast Summon Monster VIII via his robe's enchantment to Summon 1d4+1 Jannis. They will accompany Varys while she scouts the vicinity of the townhouse, remaining Invisible and Ethereal, looking for hidden tunnels, other escape routes, and anything else of interest. They will relay anything they find to Varys, who will then share it with us via our Telepathic Bond.
---[X] Depending on what Varys and our scouts discover, we will determine how to proceed.
EDIT: Heads up, @ryuan, @Annatar, @silvanknight, @Evaunit02mark1, @enigma1995, @TotallyNotEvil, @Afforess, @Artemis1992, @Crake, @Othan763, @MTB, I've updated my plan significantly after speaking with @TalonofAnathrax (so it'll be their fault if something goes wrong!
). It doesn't hurt to check out the house more thoroughly, IMO, and I don't think the delay will matter much one way or the other.Here's my previous plan if anyone wants to keep using it.
[] Attack the townhouse seeking to capture or kill the Golden Company mages as swiftly as you can
-[] Viserys expands an 8th level spell slot to cast Summon Monster VIII via his robe's enchantment to Summon 1d4+1 Jannis. They will quickly scout the townhouse's surroundings while Invisible and Ethereal, looking for hidden tunnels and other escape routes, and relay their findings Telepathically. After sending the Jannis off to scout, Viserys uses another Miracle, this time to target the ground the townhouse sits on with an Earthquake spell.
--[] Everyone will use their Greater Ribbons of Disguise to change their appearances so that they resemble Yi-Tish natives. Tyene and Teana will take the deception one step further and use their Geniekind spells to take on the apparent form of Djinnis.
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- Location
- France
Spending a lot of spell slots there. Worse, spending actions : the enemy likely knows things have gone wrong already, and may be trying to leave the building.
It's a solid plan, but IMO it needs to be trimmed down.
Goldfish
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We've already been waiting here for a long time, as we saw in the previous chapter. The extra 18 seconds it takes to buff Varys isn't going to make a difference one way or another, IMO. They'll have fled long ago or will still be within the house. As for spells, the only slots being 'wasted' are a 1st, 2nd, and 7th level slot for Varys and an 8th level slot for the Janni scouts. The spells Lya is casting are all from scrolls. Viserys has plenty of slots to spare and this is why we have Lya scribe high level scrolls to begin with, so they can be used.
And since Viserys will also benefit from the spells he's placing on Varys, that's basically just pre-combat buffing. If a fight breaks out soon, all three of those spells will be good to have active.
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- Germany
Did we ever give Bloom some equipment?
I mean, her ability to create magic swords and her constant Holy Aura make many of the basics unneeded, but there are still some things she could profit from.
I mean, her ability to create magic swords and her constant Holy Aura make many of the basics unneeded, but there are still some things she could profit from.