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

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[X] Offer to cast Purify Food and Drink on everyone's wine and refreshments as a precaution. After all, this is not the meeting place the Voice would have preferred and we would not want to risk that enemies of Norvos or their god might take this rare opportunity to strike against their leaders or important foreign visitors. If they do not trust us to cast the spell, we certainly don't mind if they do so instead.
-[X] Have Varys tell the girl to leave with directions to meet you elsewhere. She might have information on the suppressed R'hllorists underground that you might need to hear.
 
DragonParadox said:
It's workable in the technical sense, but the Voice might try to take a drink of his wine before the climax of Viserys' speech.
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Mine was more meant as an interruption, with the start of an angry reply already being spoken even as Viserys grabs the drink. Unless everyone has already picked theirs up? In which case neutralizing it entirely would be better.
 
@Goldfish, we don't do that all the time because it shows weakness.
What if we instead insulted the innkeeper and offered to transmute his wine into something Westerosi, to demonstrate that not everything from our realm is tainted?
We could imply that it'd be a show that he thinks we can coexist, thereby goading him into doing it.
 
DragonParadox said:
Ah I see, that should be workable. No one has their drinks in hand yet.
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Yes, basically it's like this.

The High Priest: "Blah blah blah, such injustice, such disgrace, such sin."

Viserys: "Allow me to retort--*grabs their drink with Mind Bullets*angry rant--*drinks wine* sorry that made me quite parched."

High Priest: :eyebrow:
 
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[X] Goldfish

If he refuses and (possibly if unlikely) gets poisoned, well, not us, we offered to un-poison.
Gotta suck for the slave-girl, but what can do, we are here to either subjugate the city or to subjugate the city, her staying alive is making the latter more likely, and less pleasant for all parties involved.
 
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I see no real impediments to my plan whatsoever.

If anything, it will "succeed" flawlessly, showing Viserys as posturing, but it will be so blatant posturing that it can't be anything more than political theater. Which can be acknowledged coolly and sidestepped or pointed out, neither of which really hinders us in any way.
 
@DragonParadox Was the Norvosi High Priest trying to avoid holding the meeting outside the palace because heavy presence of the Priesthood is just begging for a riot to start out of nowhere?

Which is to say, is unrest really that precipitous and we only now noticed?
 
DragonParadox said:
There does not seem to be unrest that bad in the upper city, he nobles would be more on edge. He is not so sure about the lower city.
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Seems like a serious issue. Their rival is now focusing on internal issues and their own unrest, so can't threaten them meaningfully, and the Dragon nearby seems to be acting less violently in general over time when it comes to dealing with his neighbors. And generally seems to avoid invasions (since the last time we actually invaded a place personally was Tyrosh and there was more nuance involved in the matter of Pentos as it was a Braavosi sphere of influence type deal).

So to lay it all out, is he fully on board with persecuting the Red Faith because of already extant unrest that was frothing to the surface due to us appearing like the Messiah to the slaves, and thus generally having galvanized them into making the Bearded Priests crack down?

Or was he barely offering any tacit agreement to the pogroms his First Axe has been leading the charge on?

Thus far it seems like he is more willing to play politics if it keeps the status quo, whereas Axe-y is just looking for a fight because that's what he understands. But it could be more serious poison if the social-political sludge was already swamp-like before we started absorbing our neighbors. We spent like two whole years in Braavos and the better part of one playing pirate king (I.E politically irrelevant) and they had issues as far back as magic reawakening.
 
Bah, let Goldfish deal with combat. Diplomatic warfare is Crake's specialty, so I'm with him on this.

[X] Crake
 
Crake said:
So to lay it all out, is he fully on board with persecuting the Red Faith because of already extant unrest that was frothing to the surface due to us appearing like the Messiah to the slaves, and thus generally having galvanized them into making the Bearded Priests crack down?

Or was he barely offering any tacit agreement to the pogroms his First Axe has been leading the charge on?
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Viserys can't really tell without more investigation. It's not like he could bluntly as the nobles earlier these questions without spooking them by being too interested in the Red Faith
 
@Goldfish Your plan calls attention to the people who could have handled the drinks right in that moment. You would have be extremely incurious and without much in the way of caution if you are already basically executing heathens in the streets to terrify the populace out of false idolatry.
 
[X] Crake

When in doubt, ham it up. That and cure food and drink makes us look paranoid and puts us on the Diplo back foot. Heck, if the Ax followers through on this thinking he can just state we are beating paranoid and this is a baseless blame game.
 
In general, I think it is better to take up some of the room's attention by being chewing upon the scenery for a bit than it is to pretend we give two shits about poison, being seen as the Dread Sorcerer extraordinaire across two continents who largely wouldn't have to worry about something so pedestrian as dying to poisons, nor being unable to simply cure someone who is dying of poison right in front of us if we were minded to.
 
Heads up, @Duesal, @Mormont, @egoo, @silvanknight, @incama, I'm switching over to @Crake's plan. I don't really think this is the best time and place for ham, but it should work well enough.

Of course, there is also the option to just cast a Silent and Still Purify Food and Drink spell (or a Miracle if we really want to be thorough), though that runs the risk of someone noticing the spell.

[X] Crake
 
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