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

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"Come then, envoy, tell us your master's words, what does he pledge, what does he asks? Let us see if you are the liar Alequo called you or something more useful."
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[X] Plan Exploiting Psychosis For Dummies
-[X] "My lord, the unparalleled Sultan of Brass wishes for nothing more then to see a scoundrel punished for vexing him. The Targaryen, who is your enemy too, has been a nuisance to his servants for too long." // Sticking with Efreeti "diplomacy" and stating some things everyone who has been anywhere near a planar city would know to remind them why this situation is perfectly sensible. Pay no attention to the dragon behind the curtain.
-[X] "What he pledges is a small measure of his wealth and favour, coin for arms and armor and the aid of some of his most loyal and prized servants. All he asks for in return is the island of Sorcerers Deep to be set ablaze for a thousand years and the souls of the false dragon, his sister, his thug and his whore. The forges always hunger for the souls of the unworthy." // Entirely reasonable terms for both sides, assuming they could trust each other. Also leaving an opening for them to latch onto to seek duplicity by implying, but not stating that Brassy would throw Viserys and his closest allies into the forges. This is a trap for Silvertongue to get paranoid about being hoodwinked.
-[X] In the extremely likely case that they want proof of our claims that they will get aid: "It just happens that my humble personage is counted among these most skilled and esteemed servants and given recent events I will gladly prove the value of my masters favour by aiding you in paying back the false dragons servants for their deeds. A Saan for a Saan sounds fair, does it not?" // Efreeti "diplomacy". Also couching our offer into the terms of vengeance, which should appeal to Maelys.
-[X] Continuation of the above: "My lesser servants have appraised me of the lay of the land in the ruin of Gogossos. A small group could easily infiltrate his stronghold beneath the ruins, slaughter his unprepared servants and claim the riches hoarded there. Maybe certain parties would be more inclined to me, if they saw me butchering their enemies. Would you accompany me, Lord Silvertongue?" // Bait. By provoking him again we shift attention from the important matter, which is this plan itself, to another spat between us. At the same time, the others will be less inclined to give credence to Silvertongues objections or read all too deeply into the matter, as we are obviously just two assholes sniping at each other. Also, more appealing to Maelys' sensibilities by couching things in terms of gratuitous murder.
-[X] Continued if Silvertongue refuses: "Maybe someone else of your number then. The Lord of Battle seems less prone to fear and you are clearly less then fond of him, so you would risk little of value if you were to buy into the baseless slander of my person. What say you, Lord Blackfyre?" // What we actually want. By directly addressing Maelys' ego, we make it less likely for him to listen to Silvertongues paranoid ramblings.
-[X] Accept any other constellation Maelys offers too. The important bit is to get one or two of them under the anti-divination wards of the Forge so that they can be incapitated and interrogated, or flipped to our side, without triggering Divination failsafes.
 
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Azel, it's not Maegor it's Maelys. I in fact would be delighted if we were to have the Aegon the Conqueror's son as our enemy.
 
I expect them to refuse this deal. They probably promised those souls to Tiamat already, and therefore cannot hope to give them to the Sultan.
They might accept and intend to double-cross the Efreet, of course. Idiots.

[X] Azel
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
I expect them to refuse this deal. They probably promised those souls to Tiamat already, and therefore cannot hope to give them to the Sultan.
They might accept and intend to double-cross the Efreet, of course. Idiots.

[X] Azel
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Or they might try to double-cross Tiamat like Varys did by redirecting her ire at the Sultan for claiming the souls she wants.

Or they might try to split the difference by haggling for Danys soul to appease Tiamat.

Or they might try to get a free attack on Gogossos out of this by postponing commitments until afterwards.

Lots of options on their side. All this plan relies on is that Maelys thinks himself clever enough to pull a fast one on either Tiamat, the Efreeti, us, or any combination thereof. So, it mostly banks on the arrogance of an insane Blackfyre monster that was turned into an undead. I'm liking the odds on that.
 
[X] Azel

Again, this subterfuge and skullduggery combined with our act as a member of the Brass Bastards, a High Noble one at that, is REALLY amusing to read.

Sometimes wanton slaughter on Monday morning is nice, and sometimes smoke and mirrors at Thursday evening is also nice.
 
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egoo said:
As a Slav, I'm hereby oblidged to represent this as the best version.
That aside, the Saltatio Mortis's cover kinda fits the song's lyrics together with the vocal/instrumental arrangement a bit better, imo.

Sir Richard is very much a
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Slavic Solidarity is nothing in the face of Power Metal!


And while we're at it, here's Azema's theme song.

 
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[x] "The Targaryen whelp is nothing. Let me all tell you about the True Enemy."
-[x] Describe the location and nature of Romanian ISP's
 
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[x] "The Targaryen whelp is nothing. Let me all tell you about the True Enemy."
-[x] Describe the location and nature of Romanian ISP's
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Pffft-

That's like sending Undead to fight Others, mate.
Nothing can compare to the sheer life-draining unearthly powers of ISPs.

:V
 
DragonParadox's Internet: "Mr. Targaryen, I don't feel so good."
Targaryen: "Hang in there kid."
Internet: psshhhhhhhh

Romanian ISP: "I'm sorry Viserys. It was the only way." pssshhhh
 
@DragonParadox, for getting the secrets out of f!Aegon's labyrinthine mind, is it or is it not safe to take him to Bloodraven? I remember an old warning about not bringing him Others or Devils or Deep ones into his inner sanctum, and I'm unsure how far a powerful enemy cleric qualifies for that category.

Alternatively, could "Varys" make a trip to Sorcerer's Deep and aid with interrogation assisted by whatever blood sacrifice is necessary?
 
Goldfish said:
Could we just use Scribe's Binding on him? Then Commune with Texts?
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That might work better, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Labyrinthine Mind leads to the most frustratingly encrypted book we've ever seen, which could be equally useless.

In the end it might be better to not waste the effort and just toss him to Yss for something nice in exchange.
 
As you guys have guessed my internet went off again

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  • [X] Plan Exploiting Psychosis For Dummies
    -[X] "My lord, the unparalleled Sultan of Brass wishes for nothing more then to see a scoundrel punished for vexing him. The Targaryen, who is your enemy too, has been a nuisance to his servants for too long." // Sticking with Efreeti "diplomacy" and stating some things everyone who has been anywhere near a planar city would know to remind them why this situation is perfectly sensible. Pay no attention to the dragon behind the curtain.
    -[X] "What he pledges is a small measure of his wealth and favour, coin for arms and armor and the aid of some of his most loyal and prized servants. All he asks for in return is the island of Sorcerers Deep to be set ablaze for a thousand years and the souls of the false dragon, his sister, his thug and his whore. The forges always hunger for the souls of the unworthy." // Entirely reasonable terms for both sides, assuming they could trust each other. Also leaving an opening for them to latch onto to seek duplicity by implying, but not stating that Brassy would throw Viserys and his closest allies into the forges. This is a trap for Silvertongue to get paranoid about being hoodwinked.
    -[X] In the extremely likely case that they want proof of our claims that they will get aid: "It just happens that my humble personage is counted among these most skilled and esteemed servants and given recent events I will gladly prove the value of my masters favour by aiding you in paying back the false dragons servants for their deeds. A Saan for a Saan sounds fair, does it not?" // Efreeti "diplomacy". Also couching our offer into the terms of vengeance, which should appeal to Maelys.
    -[X] Continuation of the above: "My lesser servants have appraised me of the lay of the land in the ruin of Gogossos. A small group could easily infiltrate his stronghold beneath the ruins, slaughter his unprepared servants and claim the riches hoarded there. Maybe certain parties would be more inclined to me, if they saw me butchering their enemies. Would you accompany me, Lord Silvertongue?" // Bait. By provoking him again we shift attention from the important matter, which is this plan itself, to another spat between us. At the same time, the others will be less inclined to give credence to Silvertongues objections or read all too deeply into the matter, as we are obviously just two assholes sniping at each other. Also, more appealing to Maelys' sensibilities by couching things in terms of gratuitous murder.
    -[X] Continued if Silvertongue refuses: "Maybe someone else of your number then. The Lord of Battle seems less prone to fear and you are clearly less then fond of him, so you would risk little of value if you were to buy into the baseless slander of my person. What say you, Lord Blackfyre?" // What we actually want. By directly addressing Maelys' ego, we make it less likely for him to listen to Silvertongues paranoid ramblings.
    -[X] Accept any other constellation Maelys offers too. The important bit is to get one or two of them under the anti-divination wards of the Forge so that they can be incapitated and interrogated, or flipped to our side, without triggering Divination failsafes.
    [x] "The Targaryen whelp is nothing. Let me all tell you about the True Enemy."
    -[x] Describe the location and nature of Romanian ISP's
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I think Brynden could interrogate him. Brynden only said it was a bad idea to drag a goddamn Aspect of an Archduke into his sanctum, that's nothing compared to a single mortal conduit of divine power. He should have home field advantage there.

I'm not feeling the Yss thing.
 
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