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

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We should also curse the hell out of any prominent figures that we know are involved but he doesn't get rid of if this doesn't dissolve into outright fighting in the streets. There are so many wonderful ways for someone willing to use miracle to make an example to mess with people. With something like Vision of Doom we can cast all kinds of spells on people remotely. Things ranging from stuff as irritating but ultimately harmless like Bedevil, to things in the same unsettlingly supernatural category as the Old Salt's Curse. If we just want to make people piss themselves we can use VoD to tag people with an Undine's Curse.
 
Yeah, there definitely is a split between the Harrowers and the Voice. Time to rub some salt on that wound.

[X] Goldfish
 
I honestly did not expect us to be a troll here.

[X] Goldfish

This is pretty blatant in the whole "oh and by the way, you have nothing I want, other than your lives".

The Sidious model is indeed the current model we are taking. "Let's him and you fight".
 
DragonParadox said:
You cannot impose the sort of total embargo you are talking about with as few soldier and lawmen as you have out east and once the goods get ti your realm expect wide-scale use of bribery and middlemen that your mostly medieval infrastructure can't meaniugfully stop. At most you could hurt trade with Norvos, not stop it.
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Also, the hell we can't. You want to make unbribable customs officials?

Hire an Outsider.

Or build a Construct.

I'm mostly joking, it would take a long ass time to have enough Customs Officials made/hired in that manner to be able to keep up.
 
Crake said:
Also, the hell we can't. You want to make unbribable customs officials?

Hire an Outsider.

Or build a Construct.

I'm mostly joking, it would take a long ass time to have enough Customs Officials made/hired in that manner to be able to keep up.
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While I love the idea of a story set in a post-scarcity utopia in which pampered humans live idle lives in the care of legions of Outsiders and Constructs who are superior by every possible metric and yet who were created to serve and protect...
ASWAH is not that story.
 
Crake said:
I honestly did not expect us to be a troll here.

[X] Goldfish

This is pretty blatant in the whole "oh and by the way, you have nothing I want, other than your lives".

The Sidious model is indeed the current model we are taking. "Let's him and you fight".
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TBH, it's probably some misplaced aggression from our inability to enact meaningful societal changes in most extraplanar locations. We're constantly dealing with the reality of chattel slavery and the wanton cruelty across devil, demon, and genie empires. Life is cheap all across the Spheres, and we cannot do anything about it.

Norvos is not protected by any such insurmountable obstacles. And, at least at the moment, I don't think anyone considers the potential cost of making an official enemy of the city, as opposed to the status quo of its plurality faction 'merely' sanctioning attacks on our outer territories, to be so high as for it to be pragmatic for us to make peace.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jun 28, 2020 at 11:21 AM, finished with 61 posts and 18 votes.
  • [X] "I merely wish for you to use this...unfortunate incident...as an opportunity. There are clearly forces within your clergy who wish to engender hostilities between Norvos and the Imperium." There is no sense in prevaricating at this point, so gesture at the already agitated First Axe. "Use the opportunity to bring them under heel by whatever means you feel is necessary. Now that you are aware of the problem, it is your responsibility to correct it, unless you wish to admit that you cannot control the more hotheaded among your clergy?"
    -[X] "My patience is limited, especially when it comes to the safety of my people, and what mercy I have to spare has already been spent. Should another such incident occur, there will be...consequences for Norvos and the Faith of the Lawgiver."
    [X] "What do I want?" Point at the First Axe. "I want that murderer's life. I want you to convince to convince me." Pause for confusion "I want you to convince me why I should not respond in kind to your unprovoked attacks on my innocent citizens. Convince me why I should not close all borders to your filthy city and rain destuction such as the world has not seen since the doom. Convince me why I should not make an example of this squalor that you call a city. I will destroy this city so utterly that when the next state thinks they can do as they please with me and mine they will pause and ask 'Will we be the next Norvos?' "
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We are going to call what happens after this as "The war of the Beard", where Beard Pope and Beard guy with axe try to shave each other to show dominance over the city.
 
egoo said:
...This sounds like a bad gay porn plot.
Do continue :ogles:
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Or just the mockery of elves and a characterization of their disregard for Dwarves.

Subsequently followed by the Dwarves spanking the Elves, killing their king, and stealing their crown. And then holding onto that crown for the next couple thousand years and referencing it endlessly whenever the Elves try to sound like they're better than you.
 
Crake said:
Or just the mockery of elves and a characterization of their disregard for Dwarves.

Subsequently followed by the Dwarves spanking the Elves, killing their king, and stealing their crown. And then holding onto that crown for the next couple thousand years and referencing it endlessly whenever the Elves try to sound like they're better than you.
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...So essentially this?
 
The dwarf was called Urist!

As someone who comes from Bay12, I'm glad that game gets references in other places
 
Your daily reminder that we currently have a semi-complete turnplan proposal, which lacks a month-long assignment for Viserys, Richard and Mereth, but is also open for discussion overall.
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@Goldfish, I switched the RA as you requested. Drowstaff be sad, yo.
Also added Liomond (Warblade 13) to Slavers' Bay and Sarnori blendering.
 
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