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

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Crake said:
We have 6 Umbral Spies and 2 Umbral Stalkers. That's a massive boon for a single operation but it's a drop in the bucket for an information network. I think we can apply them more judiciously than he can, he has to switch his focus too often to apply more than lower-middle tier minions, and the occasional higher tier one, to their best use.
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Right...he is so competent that I forget he is fighting a 5-way spy war in Westeros...man I wish we got some actual rogue templates creatures to give to Bloodraven.
 
The best thing we can do for Brynden is massively expand the scope of our Inquisition presence in Westeros. Being able to delegate the busywork means he can focus on the bigger things more often.
 
Re: Mercenaries

The more I think about it, the less likely he's managed to get significant, much less reliable hirelings from Water. And if he hired True Dragons--and I really doubt that, since while we make interacting with random True Dragons seem easy, we ourselves are not only a Huge-sized chromatic, we are a Mythic Dragon Archmage on top of that.

Respect is a huge part of Dragon Diplomacy, and I don't see Golden Shield envoys being able to make it through a single sentence without stuttering and startling while conversing with one unless they were Companion-grade. Much less, again, be able to offer a high enough bounty on our head.

If one was impulsive enough to take their first offer, it was probably some young Brine. We could probably arrange a meeting with them and quietly pay them off and call it an amicable business meeting over brunch.

Secondly, we are offering literally any mercenaries in Water, from independent mages, entire free companies, what have you, an offer to fight. With contracts that just can't be beat. With the implicit implication of our direct support and involvement in any fighting.

Tywin has to either cut a deal with the Brazen Throne or Baator. I can't imagine anyone who would place their involvement as beyond the means or reason of profit, but rather a position of utter confidence and power (Baator) or supreme spite (the Sultan).

We can be reasonably certain he has been putting his feelers out toward one of the two without Lanna or Gerion being aware, if he's seriously considering outsourcing his Targaryen problems.
 
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Robert has his own mages already. The Pyromancers. Alright, he used to have his own mages, until there was a certain little incident with a sinkhole.
 
I'd say I was surprised at Robert's antics, but at this point I'm just numb.

Just, I have no words for the sheer gall it takes to not only fuck a sorceress, but to fuck one that deliberately looks like your wife that you yourself constantly cuckold at every given opportunity.

I don't even know what to call a situation like this, because stupid just doesn't seem to be adequate enough.

Also I don't even know if I want to work with the sorceress, because someone who willingly gets caught in a situation like this is someone I think is far too blindsided to work with. There's fucking your way to the top and then there's fucking your way to a knife in your throat or a suicide mission.

[X] Crake
 
Well, they were consorting with Hell, so it was all a plot form the enemies of the imps masters. We were on the other side of the world killing deep ones.
 
They try to burn our city with Wildfire? We retaliate by destroying the source and half of the city of Lamnisport and most of it's ships, if not all.

They can pretty much read the word in the wall afterwards: "try something like that again Lannisters, see what happens".
 
Azel said:
Yeah. Always these unfortunate accidents...

Also, we absolutely should not give Bloodraven a large litter of 50x Shadowcats. That too might lead to unfortunate accidents, what with black cats crossing peoples paths and so on.
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I know a lot of people will start having stair-related deaths that coincide with the arrival of the cats...totally unrelated. Promise.
 
Evaunit02mark1 said:
Also I don't even know if I want to work with the sorceress, because someone who willingly gets caught in a situation like this is someone I think is far too blindsided to work with. There's fucking your way to the top and then there's fucking your way to a knife in your throat or a suicide mission.
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Oh, believe me. When I say "approach" I meant it in the fait accompli sense of "you are fucked and I've got a lifeline and perhaps a bridge to sell you".
 
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