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

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DragonParadox said:
By Steel and Thunder ​

Twenty Sixth Day of the Second Month 294 AC

From atop one of the ancient stepped pyramids raised to the glory of a House now long since fallen to obscurity, the eight of you have a commanding view of the Astapor's harbor walls and the empty bay beyond. Few ships still venture here, passing the inspection of galleys from Tolos and Mantarys to serve the city's meager seaborne trade.

A harpy still crumbles atop the crimson harbor gate of Astapor, for all its 'sons' have been outlawed. This realm has made its bed of history's grave, and here Asmodeous plans to bury it. There are Unsullied here, tanned faces hardened into lines of pain and endurance over long years that had seen them the object and the tool of their master's cruelty. Now though, with the dark 'blessing' they have taken within themselves, clear as the blazing sun above to your eyes, they have simply reprized their role upon a greater board.

"Do you ever wonder what would have happened if we traveled east four and a half years ago?" Dany whispers in your mind along the bond for battle forged between all of you. "Would we have gotten here faster, broken their chains upon the flesh before they could be exchanged for even weightier ones upon the soul?"

"Since I would be dead in a gutter in Braavos or worse, I'm happy you didn't, just the same," Garin replies wryly as he sets up his shot over the shoulder of some snarling grotesque that to your eyes looks more Valyrian than Ghiscari for all it has probably been here for longer than most of the city's leading Houses.

A whisper of shadow touches the bolt and then, with a thud that hangs heavy in the air, it flies. A crossbow is not Garin's favored weapon, nor is this one enchanted, but his eye is still sharper and his hand steadier than many a master marksman. A centurion collapses forward already, steel piercing his throat.

In a voice by magic carried to every thinking being within twenty miles, you call out, "Behold the Harpy's Talon, piercing the tools of the Unclean One, the Thief of Slaves." The spell should be powerful enough to give the devils cause to worry without giving most people cause to suspect your hand.

Thunk, another bolt flies and another soldier falls, this one struck through the heart. Then Dany rises into the air wearing the guise of a harpy hurling thunderbolts into the fray. They don't kill as swiftly as Garin's blots, but she can keep tossing them for a quarter of an hour at need and you are quite sure you will get a response long before that.

"They are taking cover," Teana calls while Garin readies another shot. Unlike the rest of you, she and Benero are flying high above, ready to ambush any devils who may assault the pyramid.

It would take them at least a few minutes to get into the proper cover, but you might need to get closer...

The thought breaks off abruptly, the smell of brimstone fills the air and from darkness beyond the world step forth a score of bone devils and just as many furies ready to deal with any who would meddle in the doings of the Lord of the Ninth. More than half their forces... No, you realize looking around in the fragile stillness before battle is joined in earnest, half of them are summoned for the battle only, a hammer made twice as deadly in the moment.

At your side, Dark Sister stirs eagerly. "You must seem not yourself, casting fire and sorcery upon your foes, yes? Draw me forth and let me taste the blood of fiends for the first time in half a thousand years."

How do you fight?

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OOC: I'm sure you guys will have more interesting ideas for alternative combat styles than me, but Dark Sister really wanted to fight. Not yet edited.
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.

I changed the distance you mentioned of Mage's Decree from 12 to 20 miles to match the spell.
 
Dark Sister is rather distinct a sword, and Erynies have True Vision.
Unless we want to spend an action illysioning with with that one Eberon spell (cloak of something..?), she's rather telling.
Heck, it isn't even guaranteed the Erynies don't have something on top of their True Vision - wasn't there a counter to this illusion as well?

We don't need fire to massacre them all.
Just gotta pick the right thematic spells.

...bottom line, our swording is shit compared to our casting and I refuse to be inefficient in fight.
We had yet to make her a good weapon choice for Viserys by upgrading her.
 
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Here's what I've got so far. This should be a surprise/ambush round, blind siding the Devils, Dispelling Summoned help, disorienting then, setting them against one another, and occupying them with an immediate melee threat (the tentacles). We can see how effective this approach is, and how they respond, before determining how to proceed.

[X] Opening Moves
-[X] Viserys and Dany each cast Chain Dispel (+22 Dispel bonus for each, roll twice and take highest result in each Dispel), using Wild Arcana and Inspired Spell respectively, targeting all of the Devils, not only Dispelling buffs but also those which have been Summoned rather than being truly present. Viserys then casts a Quickened Greater Black Tentacles spell using Blood Wish. She uses a Brilliant Barrier charm to shield the group or Counterspells using her Ring of Spell-Battle and Battlemagic Perception buff, if necessary.
-[X] Teana casts Friend to Foe on those Bone Devils who were not Dispelled. She uses a Brilliant Barrier charm to shield herself or the group, or her Ring of Spell-Battle to Counterspell, if necessary.
-[X] Garin targets seven of the remaining Erinyes with a Quickened Darkbolt spell, then casts it again as a Standard Action to target unaffected Erinyes, or Bone Devils if there are none remaining unaffected.
-[X] Mereth makes a full attack ranged against whichever Devils she believes are in charge of this force or look to be able to get them organized.
-[X] Benerro targets the largest remaining concentration of Devils with a Radiant Assault spell.
-[X] Richard and the Seeker wait to engage, or move to defend the group of they come under attack.
 
@Goldfish, don't forget this is just an opening distraction move. The real prize is darting towards the forge temples and capturing and/or wrecking everything inside.

Also @DragonParadox, can you tell us the numbers we're looking at here?
 
Crake said:
[X] Opening Moves

Sorry, Best Girl. :(
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With Greater Dark Tentacles in play, Viserys, Richard, and Garin might want to enter into melee range and do some classic evisceration. The tentacles will ignore them, since they're not Evil.
Duesal said:
@Goldfish, don't forget this is just an opening distraction move. The real prize is darting towards the forge temples and capturing and/or wrecking everything inside.

Also @DragonParadox, can you tell us the numbers we're looking at here?
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No worries of that, but we can't just ignore 40 Devils Teleporting in. This is an efficient way to handle them that doesn't involve SotD.
 
Goldfish said:
With Greater Dark Tentacles in play, Viserys, Richard, and Garin might want to enter into melee range and do some classic evisceration. The tentacles will ignore them, since they're not Evil.

No worries of that, but we can't just ignore 40 Devils Teleporting in. This is an efficient way to handle them that doesn't involve SotD.
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I am excited for the boatload of new corpses. Yay for devil names!

@DragonParadox, I'm hoping against hope one or two of these guys have some Mammon contacts. Maybe the Erinyes? :whistle:
 
DragonParadox said:
The thought breaks off abruptly the smell of brimstone fills the air and from darkness beyond the world step forth a scorebone devils and just as many furies ready to deal with any who would meddle in the doings of the Lord of the Ninth. More than half their forces... no, you realize looking around in the fragile stillness before battle is joined in earnest, half of them are summoned for the battle only, a hammer made twice as deadly in the moment.
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Just wanted to point out this passage here.

Viserys takes a glance around and pinpoints that half of these devils are 'fake'.

Hahahaha, what the hell, that's some threat assessment.

I guess when you've been in literally over a hundred life or death fights, some of them on the scale of actual battles, you learn how to hone your butthole clenching skills and your "how much shit am I allowed to talk" analysis.
 
Crake said:
I guess when you've been in literally over a hundred life or death fights, some of them on the scale of actual battles, you learn how to hone your butthole clenching skills and your "how much shit am I allowed to talk" analysis.
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*fixes his glasses*

Asmodeus: "Two can play that game, dragon child. You've been a veritable source of amusement so far, so let me put the test that conviction of yours, hm?"
 
DragonParadox said:
  1. 1 Deimavigga
  2. 9 Ashmedes
  3. 25-30 Erinyes
  4. 21-28 Osyluths
  5. 14-21 Phistophiluses
  6. 30-45 Amnizus
  7. 40-60 Hesperians
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DragonParadox said:
The thought breaks off abruptly the smell of brimstone fills the air and from darkness beyond the world step forth a scorebone devils and just as many furies ready to deal with any who would meddle in the doings of the Lord of the Ninth. More than half their forces... no, you realize looking around in the fragile stillness before battle is joined in earnest, half of them are summoned for the battle only, a hammer made twice as deadly in the moment.
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Okay, so:

10 Erinyes
10 Osyluths
10 Summoned Erinyes
10 Summoned Osyluths

That leaves the following unaccounted for:
  1. 1 Deimavigga
  2. 9 Ashmedes
  3. 15-20 Erinyes
  4. 11-18 Osyluths
  5. 14-21 Phistophiluses
  6. 30-45 Amnizus
  7. 40-60 Hesperians
 
Comrade @DragonParadox, I have a question. Once we learned from Varys about the Nine Fallen Kings of Sarnor, could you provide a list? I just can't get it together. At first I thought that each destroyed city had its own king, there are just nine of them, with the exception of the Sallosh. But then I remembered that Sarys was abandoned by its inhabitants, just before the arrival of the Dothraki, which means that there should not be any undead. Then I thought that Nimkuzu, Usurper of Sathar was the ninth, so two kings for one city, but yesterday you said that he was not considered a king. And what about the Anu-Simung, the Charnel God, was he one of these nine kings or should he be counted separately?
tl, dr Could you just provide a list of Nine Fallen Kings of Sarnor, we must have it from Namaaru? I would be very grateful.
 
Sapphon said:
Comrade @DragonParadox, I have a question. Once we learned from Varys about the Nine Fallen Kings of Sarnor, could you provide a list? I just can't get it together. At first I thought that each destroyed city had its own king, there are just nine of them, with the exception of the Sallosh. But then I remembered that Sarys was abandoned by its inhabitants, just before the arrival of the Dothraki, which means that there should not be any undead. Then I thought that Nimkuzu, Usurper of Sathar was the ninth, so two kings for one city, but yesterday you said that he was not considered a king. And what about the Anu-Simung, the Charnel God, was he one of these nine kings or should he be counted separately?
tl, dr Could you just provide a list of Nine Fallen Kings of Sarnor, we must have it from Namaaru? I would be very grateful.
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That was a long time ago and the political situation or Sarnor changed in the meantime, Viserys does know that there are no more kings to trouble himself over.
 
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