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After the Long Night. Perhaps.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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We could do some enchantment like we've got with the Night's Watch Heart Trees, where ancestral spirits come back to fight for the living. It'd be so cool to have a Ghost Legion in reserve to defend Sorcerer's Deep.
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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"No refunds."
@DragonParadox So are Kami geographically isolated? Or are they just quiescent elsewhere, or like I suspected, their positions mostly occupied by all the highly developed supernatural ecosystem in the west, y'know, Fey I guess, and other local spirits?
It makes sense that they couldn't start to gestate in locations where they might otherwise, mountains and stuff, if that "real estate" is long since been occupied by stuff that already has established metaphysical links.
@DragonParadox So are Kami geographically isolated? Or are they just quiescent elsewhere, or like I suspected, their positions mostly occupied by all the highly developed supernatural ecosystem in the west, y'know, Fey I guess, and other local spirits?
It makes sense that they couldn't start to gestate in locations where they might otherwise, mountains and stuff, if that "real estate" is long since been occupied by stuff that already has established metaphysical links.
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@DragonParadox, what about Riz'Neth and Argo?
Both of them have been pretty active in terms of combat and missions.
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Part MMMCCCLX: Where Fealty Lies
Where Fealty Lies
Fourteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC
Yi Su is not a veiled servant of the Mother of Wyrms, knowingly or unknowingly. The experience of finding that fact is mentally tiring for you and you suspect harrowing for the shugenja himself, but he accepts the investigation into the deepest corners of his mind with surprising equanimity. No more than he expects from a wielder of Maho, blood sorcery. The thought is unwelcome but inescapable after all you have seen of the shugenja's thoughts. He truly believes that you are some manner of evil for wielding the powers you do, just as he believes that you will shield him from darker things as the kami had failed to.
There are worse ways to react to what he has been through than deciding that evil is ascendant in the world, you reason. With all you know you cannot even say for certain he is wrong. As Dany quietly points out it would be nothing less that cruelty to take back your protection now. Still, you could have done without being asked how to hide his true allegiance from the kami when you suggested that he does not lightly forswear them.
"At least he won't hesitate to share what knowledge he has on Yi Tish magic out of lingering devotion," Lya says as she watches the tent's opening flutter closed after the latest inducted Scholarum mage. She does not bother hiding a grimace.
"That is not a healthy mindset for anyone, much less a mage, to have," you sigh. "There are all too many powers willing to take those who already count themselves damned and make them truly so." If you had a few days, perhaps a week, you could almost certainly get through to him. You do not.
"Hopefully the introductory courses will ease him into a less bleak outlook," Dany offers, twisting a strand of silver hair around her fingers the way she does when she sees a problem she isn't sure of the solution to. "It's not as though he wants to be one of the 'blood mages' of legend and folk tale. He's simply lacking... context."
"I'll have the Inquisition keep an eye on him just in case," Garin adds pragmatically. "It's far from the oddest thing they'd dealt with."
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Alas, attempts to find or reforge by magic pieces of hair or skin from those who had escaped under cover of warding magics do not go well. It is one thing to turn back the passage of time to sift out a few flakes of skin from some dusty corner and quite another when the 'dust' ash is two feet deep and has been made so by dragonfire.
However, fortune has not entirely turned its back on you. One of the priests you captured had ambitions far beyond his skills, possibly beyond reason, though one can hardly say what Tiamat would find amusing. He had acquired some of Red Rolly's blood by trickery, hoping to use it to spy on him or perhaps even to control him.
"The bastard was creative about it, I'll give him that," Garin says with grudging admiration when you explain how the blood had been acquired. "I'll have to keep that one in mind..."
You are inclined to agree. Anyone can get someone drunk, especially if they are not particularly shy around drink, but to then slip them just enough irritant to make the inside of their mouth bleed just as they are about to divest themselves of their stomach due to the overindulgence takes a finer hand than most common poisonings. A pity the underling the priest had used to set up the whole plan was killed in the fighting. You might have hired him.
Still, you have your vial of mildly disgusting magically preserved fluid. With this and Yss' staff you can scry and find Red Rolly.
"With the Golden Company no more and Aegon captured it might be worth trying to recruit the knight rather than capturing or killing him," Tyene muses. "After all, he can't be that much worse then them..." She motions to the eleven undead knights still awaiting their promised return to flesh. Liomond had delivered more than his own fealty.
"It's not being worse or better I'm worried about," you shake your head doubtfully. "Those are sellswords, Rolly is a knight raised from nothing by his 'king'."
"Doesn't mean he's honest, just good at flattery," Ser Richard growls, as though it pains him to recommend treachery in a good light.
What do you do next?
[] Use the Staff of Ages to reveal Ser Rolly
-[] To capture him
-[] To offer him the chance to swear fealty in light of his former lord's defeat
[] Meet with Lady Xue, you can find the missing knight later
[] Write in
OOC: Probably not the person you guys most wanted to find, but that's how the rolls worked out.
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Right, Argo, I did say he was one battle away from leveling last time. He gets a level. Riz'Neth is still a little off though.
They seem to occupy the same 'niche' as the fey yes. There are no kami west of the Jade Gates and relatively few outside of Yi Ti proper.
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@DragonParadox, can we get a big list of everyone we have captured?
How much more does Riz'Neth need?
- Sure, I'll do that in the morning
- One more solid success on a mission
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... right. Should have thought about that before nuking the area
egoo
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Red Rolly is essentially F!Aegon's Richard.
With the gear to match.
But not too nasty all on it's own.
That the Shadow Dragin is hidden too well is a fucking travesty, but oh well.
With the gear to match.
Rings of strength and arcane warding, a belt of fortune around his waist, all these you see but most telling are the enduring blessings upon him. Not so different from the ones Dany had laid upon you. This man is important to the Champion of Tiamat, or at least someone in his service as you had heard.
You go over the tales you had heard, how he had gained his name and spurs cutting down steel-clad devils who had threatened his liege, and there surrounded by the brimstone stench and black blood he had sworn himself to be the boy's shield. Connington did not like him, counting him too common company for the king no matter his skill with the sword. Supposedly he had once been naught but a smith's son in Bitterbridge who had to flee Lord Caswell's justice. "Perhaps the one who had wounded young Lorent", Lya reminded you, her
Yeah, we can't get to illyrio (have we checked his quarters in Shadow Fortress with our magics, @DragonParadox? It was voted on iirc) because of Bloodstone Emperor, and Blackheart is a nasty piece...
But not too nasty all on it's own.
That the Shadow Dragin is hidden too well is a fucking travesty, but oh well.
You did yes. He was properly paranoid unfortunately.
Goldfish
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So, that's level ups for Garin, Teana, Sandor, and Argo we need to handle. Excellent!
I'll start putting together stuff for them this evening. For now, however...
[X] Use the Staff of Ages to reveal Ser Rolly
-[X] To capture him
I'll start putting together stuff for them this evening. For now, however...
[X] Use the Staff of Ages to reveal Ser Rolly
-[X] To capture him
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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The Shadow Dragon that lived in there did not leave anything either, I take it?
Oh well.
At least now we are sure we can start looting and raising this building.
Crake
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Regarding Garin, you wanted to put together something Mystery related, like I did? Or modify what I had to work with?
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That's definitely incentive to keep him active. I'd like to try to get Svitran some XP as well. Hopefully something of sufficiently low challenge pops up for him.
None of the dragons left anything no.
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I'd say Connington also takes part of that role.
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[X] Goldfish
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For the Shadow Dragon that we did kill:
1. Can we put the corpse into the Flesh Forge for Shadow Dragonhide, Shadow Dragonbone, and Shadow Dragonblood production? The Brainstealer, while an amazing capture, wasn't exactly ideal for this. Can we get our dragon material production out of this corpse? I was hoping to equip our rangers and druids as well as providing a bit of a market to our genie allies.
2. I hope it's got some juicy info for Speak with Dead. I hope we get the lair.
Speaking of which, @DragonParadox, I hope you have the loot accounted for.
egoo
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[X] Goldfish
Btw, who wants to bet that Red Rolly is one of the last F!Aegon's precautions, and is carrying something to rezz/try to rescue him given F!aegon's death or capture?
They were preparing for fairly major confrontation and expecting us sooner or later...
Btw, who wants to bet that Red Rolly is one of the last F!Aegon's precautions, and is carrying something to rezz/try to rescue him given F!aegon's death or capture?
They were preparing for fairly major confrontation and expecting us sooner or later...
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I fully expect Red Rolly to be incredibly annoying. Possibly as annoying as Connington was before we roasted him alive.