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

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hmmm i feel it probebly has some counter mesure against being brain spidered but i don't know enough about 3.5 to know how it would do so
 
If peeling back its mind layer by layer using Brain Spider doesn't work, generally the only thing you can do is use 9th Circle Magic to get rid of whatever is in the way or bypass it entirely.


[X] Goldfish
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on May 29, 2020 at 8:56 AM, finished with 20 posts and 7 votes.
  • [X] Plan Team Effort
    -[X] Wherever the group chooses to set up for the interrogation, they will use a Mage's Private Sanctum spell to obscure the location, then use a Lya's Magnificent Mansion scroll to generate a temporary extradimensional space in which to work.
    -[X] In preparation for releasing the Belier from Malarys' Sacramental Seal for interrogation, everyone present buffs up as normal, including Tyene, Malarys, and Teana casting Battlemagic Perception spells on themselves. Tyene and Malarys also activate their Beads of Karma to increase their caster level by +4. All three of them will use their Rings of Spell-Battle and Battlemagic Perception spells to Counterspell anything the Belier tries to cast upon being released from the Seal.
    --[X] If the Snare is used, skip to the "Upon the Belier's release" section.
    -[X] Before releasing the Belier, Malarys casts Summon Monster VIII to Summon a Barbed Devil and Teana sacrifices two 7th level spell slots to Summon a Shedu and a Movanic Deva. All three of them will aid Mereth and Liomond in physically restraining the Belier until it is properly subdued. Violently, if necessary.
    -[X] Upon the Belier's release:
    --[X] Tyene targets it with her Quickened Chains of Light (DC 24 Reflex save) spell as a Swift Action. If this fails, she casts it again as a Standard Action.
    --[X] Teana casts Assay Spell Resistance and targets it with a Solid Shadows modified Greater Shadow Enchantment spell Heightened to 7th level to duplicate a Feeblemind spell (100% real, DC 37 Will save) spell.
    --[X] Malarys casts Assay Spell Resistance and uses the Fate-Breaker's Runestaff (sacrificing his prepared Dictum spell) to target it with a Greater Bestow Curse (DC 26 Will save) spell to reduce its Wisdom attribute to 1.
    -[X] Once the Belier has been subdued, Malarys and Tyene will use their Brain Spider spells to sift through it mind, extracting all useful information.
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Do we have a list of creatures NOT to make in the fleshforge?

I'd add false hydra to that list, as that is the definition of murphy's law.

(it is a homebrew monster that has multiple heads, and sings to make no one comprehend that it is everywere in a town or village, eating who it wants, all of its victims being wiped from all possible memory, no matter how close their relationships are. blocking your ears or being deaf or far enough away helps you notice it though.)
 
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Do we have a list of creatures NOT to make in the fleshforge?

I'd add false hydra to that list, as that is the definition of murphy's law.

(it is a homebrew monster that has multiple heads, and sings to make no one comprehend that it is everywere in a town or village, eating who it wants, all of its victims being wiped from all possible memory, no matter how close their relationships are. blocking your ears or being deaf or far enough away helps you notice it though.)
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Self replicating bioterrorism agents?
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on May 29, 2020 at 8:56 AM, finished with 20 posts and 7 votes.
  • [X] Plan Team Effort
    -[X] Wherever the group chooses to set up for the interrogation, they will use a Mage's Private Sanctum spell to obscure the location, then use a Lya's Magnificent Mansion scroll to generate a temporary extradimensional space in which to work.
    -[X] In preparation for releasing the Belier from Malarys' Sacramental Seal for interrogation, everyone present buffs up as normal, including Tyene, Malarys, and Teana casting Battlemagic Perception spells on themselves. Tyene and Malarys also activate their Beads of Karma to increase their caster level by +4. All three of them will use their Rings of Spell-Battle and Battlemagic Perception spells to Counterspell anything the Belier tries to cast upon being released from the Seal.
    --[X] If the Snare is used, skip to the "Upon the Belier's release" section.
    -[X] Before releasing the Belier, Malarys casts Summon Monster VIII to Summon a Barbed Devil and Teana sacrifices two 7th level spell slots to Summon a Shedu and a Movanic Deva. All three of them will aid Mereth and Liomond in physically restraining the Belier until it is properly subdued. Violently, if necessary.
    -[X] Upon the Belier's release:
    --[X] Tyene targets it with her Quickened Chains of Light (DC 24 Reflex save) spell as a Swift Action. If this fails, she casts it again as a Standard Action.
    --[X] Teana casts Assay Spell Resistance and targets it with a Solid Shadows modified Greater Shadow Enchantment spell Heightened to 7th level to duplicate a Feeblemind spell (100% real, DC 37 Will save) spell.
    --[X] Malarys casts Assay Spell Resistance and uses the Fate-Breaker's Runestaff (sacrificing his prepared Dictum spell) to target it with a Greater Bestow Curse (DC 26 Will save) spell to reduce its Wisdom attribute to 1.
    -[X] Once the Belier has been subdued, Malarys and Tyene will use their Brain Spider spells to sift through it mind, extracting all useful information.
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Interlude DCCCXI: Poisonous Secrets
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    Eight Day of the First Month 294 AC

    Tyene had expected the devil to try to flee the bright chains she wove, she had after all seen stranger things than giant four-headed worm things somehow managing to dodge a spell within the confines of a cage of sharpened steel. What she had not expected was for the fiend to start expanding like a some obscene bladder filled with oil its four heads letting out a horrid keening laugh. She almost expected it to burst like a pustule, spraying its guts all over the room, but where the devil's flesh touched the cage steel scraped and bent.

    While she was still trying to think of what she could do to the damned thing that wasn't burning it with fire and light until it was a grease smear on stone Malarys and Teana cast as one, unravelings of shadow and unwavering law striking the same place in the devil's distending form. Some kind of implanted contingency then, meant either to help the devil escape or kill it before it can be forced to share its lord's secrets.

    "We can't doing this for long!" Malarys points calls. "Lord Elaenos, the cage, Lady Mereth..."

    Mereth did not need telling what to do. As soon as the archon had lifted the cage off the ballooning devil she drove her dragon-steel sword into its flesh and started sawing and carving as the belier's screamed gained a more urgent timber. Neither did the fury stop when black lightning crawled up her arm and lashed at her heart, merely gritting her teeth through the pain. As Tyene healed her she even managed to offer thanks in a perfectly level voice.

    Blood-quenched steel scraped against metal... and the sputtering magic stopped.

    "You know, serving Hell doesn't look like such a good deal from where I'm standing," Tyene jested a little shakily. She had not been looking forward to having devil guts splattered all over herself in some sort of final hellish curse.

    "It is not," Mereth replied, her voice so toneless Tyene feared she had given offense for a moment before noticing the slightest tilt of her lips.

    Alas, once they had finished interrogating the devil there was precious little to smile about. It's memories had confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt one of their darkest suspicions. The Lady of Spears was not being used by apostate priests to serve their own ends. Her allegiance has already been secured by Asmodeus and through her many faithful Unsullied. The promised prize none other than an infernal arch-duchy. The belier suspected it would be Mammon's head which would fall to make room for her, but that he was less certain of. Of more immediate use were the names of the Meereenese families already paying homage to Asmodeus: Dhazak, Galare, Loraq, Rhazdar, Uhlez and Zhak are among that number with the House of Pahl not yet snared but soon to be along with Yherizan, whose head of House had almost been killed with the safe house trap.

    Worse still the plot extended to Astapor and Yunkai, though it was somewhat less entrenched there and indeed it is with support of these cities that the Sons of the Harpy are able to continue operating in Meereen in defiance of Asmodeus' will.

    "Well fuck, there goes making an alliance with the Lady of Spears to get her worshipers' balls back," Tyene sighed wearily.

    Yrael did not look impressed, probably upset at the profanity, but really it wasn't like Tyene didn't agree that the Unsullied had shitty lives and deserved better, but if you couldn't laugh at the stuff you might find yourself crying soon. "Perhaps she can be persuaded to renege on the bargain..." he glanced at Mereth, but the fury shook her head.

    "It's flattering that you would make the comparison, but I was a foot soldier... well alright, a petty officer in the service of one of his generals. Freeing me and my sisters of the pact with Hell would prove light as a feather compared to doing the same to a mortal goddess who agreed to a deal recently."

    To that the steel-winged Lord of Mantarys had no reply, his expression only darkening further.

    Teana broke the silence. "So what do we do? Start a campaign of assassination now that we have names, try to attack the interests of the Lady of Spears..." With evident distaste she added. "Try to contact the Sons of the Harpy?"

    What do you do next?

    [] Attack the interests of Houses loyal to Baator

    [] Move against the Lady of Spears

    [] Try to contact the Sons of the Harpy

    [] Write in

    OOC: I did not go into detail about actually getting the information since we've since that already.
     
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    The Lady of Spears was not being used by apostate priests to serve their own ends. Her allegiance has been secured by Asmodeous and through her many faithful Unsullied. The promised prize than an infernal arch-duchy. The Belier suspected it would be Mammon's head which would fall to make room for her, but that he was less certain of.
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    Did I call that, or only think it and then not write it down?

    Regardless, good to know for sure know.
     
    Well.
    It's open season to kill off all and any priests of Lady of Spears now, as far as I'm concerned.
    Worst case, we cleanse Slavers' Bay by fire. We have the casus beli aplenty.

    Problem being, I really doubt we'd manage to kill off all worshippers quickly enough for her to not try something.
    And, again, Unsullied are plenty in our service too, and probably give a fair amount of service.
    Daaaaamn it.

    I have zero delusions about our chances of diplomancing her away from Asmy.
    We are blowing up all her power-base by going away with slavery and Unsullied, after all.

    I guess harpies are still better than Hells themselves getting a foothold on the plane.

    [X] Contact the Sons of Harpy
    -[X] Meanwhile, start preparing for wide-scale action against Ghiscari, Astapor and Yunkai targets loyal to Baator, gathering all information avaliable.
    --[X] We'll "teleport, kill everyone, read the memories/question the souls, repeat" to as many houses as necessary, if that is what it takes to slow down the Baator here and now.
     
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    I have zero delusions about our chances of diplomancing her away from Asmy.
    We are blowing up all her power-base by going away with slavery and Unsullied, after all.
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    I don't think that's a case where diplo is an option.

    She signed a deal with Big Red. A deal he wrote, for an actual goddess.
    I kinda doubt he's stupid enough to leave a Mammon-sized loophole in that.
     
    hmmm Momon getting replaced by the lady of spears would be very annoying, oh well. time to scry and die a load of people me thinks
     
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