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

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This makes for an excellent raw material for the eventual Imperial Afterlife and the Imperial Deity. This is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for. :D

[X] Azel
 
DragonParadox said:
Through Halls of Dust ​

Twenty Sixth Day of the Second Month 294 AC

At Lya's urging you decide to make your way back to Kasath as the sun sinks below the horizon Sorcerer's Deep. Night has long settled over the ruins of the City of Caravans when you arrive. The two of you find the city empty, above and below. Skidmarks among the broken cobbles and other hurried signs of evacuation mark the places where those of its inhabitants who had the good fortune of not being drafted into the Rat King's hosts had decided to leave the city where they had perished to hunger and sickness.

Alas, that not every inhabitant had decided to depart, a pair of blood mad ghouls spy the two of you and think to make a meal of you. Hopefully their conjured pyre will help to warn off other scavengers rather than draw them in. While you doubt there is anything left in the city proper that can threaten you, that does not mean you are looking forward to arcane investigations with one eye over your shoulder for the trouble.

Descending into the catacombs under lantern light, you are pleased to see that here too there is little sign of lingering dead. A faint sigh echoing in the distance and scrambling in the dark far too loud for rats greet you, but nothing worse until you reach the chamber Teana's shadow had previously scouted.

"An ossuary..." Lya recognizes it at once, though it has become disordered. Bones once arrayed in ritual manner, each in their own nook, are now gathered in corners almost as though it were the lair of some beast. Inscriptions upon shattered urns provide the date and, more importantly, the purpose of this place. This had once been the burial place of the priests of Anu-Sinugh, a fitting site for the last gate to the realm of a dying god to manifest. Yet oddly enough, it is not at the center of the complex that the path opens.

Instead, the magic of passage which had flowed like water through the corridors seems centered on a dry pool that you can just glimpse from the door of a narrow alcove the two of you barely managed to squeeze into through judicious use of magic.

"Can you read what it says there, around the rim?" Lya asks, knowing your eyes are sharper than hers, especially down here in the dark.

"Yes... it was an offering pool. You are supposed to throw works of your craft in there to be judged by the Sky Smith and then be granted fortune and inspiration as suits your work. I don't think it was ever supposed to let people through at all. I suspect the idol used it as an unexpected back way into Kasath when it 'persuaded' the Rat King to go to war in his name."

Lya nods decisively. "I can work with this. Just need a bit to figure out the geometry of this place and I should be able to untether it from the pool and link it to something we can take out of here."

You could not say for certain where Lya managed to find the knuckle bones of of a blacksmith buried in unhallowed ground on such short notice, much less had it encrusted with rubies and onyx. An enchanter's work requires many strange reagents, but the magic takes hold. Like grey mist rising from an open grave, it clings to the bone and coils around flesh, blind hunger having survived the passage of its maker's final vestige, though that will not be the case for long, you know at once.

What do you do with the last remains of the dead god's demiplane?

[] Keep it for study

[] Offer it to one of the realm's gods
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[] Write in

OOC: Lya would not have been able to pull that trick on a demiplane that was not utterly abandoned if anyone's wondering. Not yet edited.
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.

I fixed that first line with the sun setting in the wrong direction.
 
Goldfish said:
Pricing on the crafting sheet has been updated to include this upgrade in future ships and those already in service are scheduled to receive the upgrades next month.

I was misremembering the number of Type Bs slotted in for next month. It was 4 instead of 8. I've swapped them out for 10 Type Cs instead.

BTW, I forgot to mention that we crafted 12 Type Cs this month, too. Didn't have the spreadsheet in front of me and the brain meat isn't too reliable.
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So next month is... Wyverns: 4 Type-A, 10 Type-C; Manticores 4; and the remaining Dauntless enchanting, right?
Any chance to sneak in the preliminary work for 2 Gladius-Class vessels?

We could instead cut down a bit on the Light Warstriders. I think 20 would be plenty for the first batch.
 
@DragonParadox, from what we can see,
1) Is the connection Lya re-bounded is the only one the remains of Demiplane currently have?
2) Is it possible to enter it without having the "foci" of hers, for example with a Planeshift/Gate/souped-up versions of either?
3) Is it likely to actively degrade over time and/or get new "holes" poked into it? I.e., should we actually set up Construct guards inside to keep track of how tattered the place gets and/or keep out anything that tries to force it's way in?
 
[X] Keep it for study

This is exactly why I kept pushing for us to go back to Kasath. I am a bit surprised that the place seems to be almost completely abandoned. Not disappointed though, as it is convenient to moving things along.
 
Duesal said:
I wasn't talking about letting minions walk around in it, just the manner in which Lya loots it for us. I suspect she's not just going to have it follow her around everywhere.
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Since it might interfere with some of the more delicate workings she does she will likely leave it in a vault somewhere.

egoo said:
@DragonParadox, from what we can see,
1) Is the connection Lya re-bounded is the only one the remains of Demiplane currently have?
2) Is it possible to enter it without having the "foci" of hers, for example with a Planeshift/Gate/souped-up versions of either?
3) Is it likely to actively degrade over time and/or get new "holes" poked into it? I.e., should we actually set up Construct guards inside to keep track of how tattered the place gets and/or keep out anything that tries to force it's way in?
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  1. You would have to poke it to find out
  2. If you know where you are going yes. It is unlikely that many beings will have both the ability and the interest to do so, the god who made it is long dead and this is but a fragment of his domain
  3. Degradation seems likely and guards like a good idea
 
egoo said:
@DragonParadox, from what we can see,
1) Is the connection Lya re-bounded is the only one the remains of Demiplane currently have?
2) Is it possible to enter it without having the "foci" of hers, for example with a Planeshift/Gate/souped-up versions of either?
3) Is it likely to actively degrade over time and/or get new "holes" poked into it? I.e., should we actually set up Construct guards inside to keep track of how tattered the place gets and/or keep out anything that tries to force it's way in?
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Hopefully now that Lya has claimed it for us it won't degrade. If it does start degrading we might have to figure out how to sacrifice it or something.
Archibald said:
[X] Keep it for study

This is exactly why I kept pushing for us to go back to Kasath. I am a bit surprised that the place seems to be almost completely abandoned. Not disappointed though, as it is convenient to moving things along.
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It's a very nice haul for us, and a huge boon for the god-crafting and afterlife projects.
DragonParadox said:
  1. You would have to poke it to find out
  2. If you know where you are going yes. It is unlikely that many beings will have both the ability and the interest to do so, the god who made it is long dead and this is but a fragment of his domain
  3. Degradation seems likely and guards like a good idea
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Well shit. @DragonParadox, do we have any estimation on the rate of degradation? Hopefully the demiplane stays viable for a few years at least, considering how busy we are with other research.
 
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Azel said:
[X] Keep it for study

A chance to massively drive forward our god-crafting project.
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[X] Keep it for study

Would it help with the "Soul Society" idea a had some time ago do you reckon?

A crafted shared afterlife for non-hell designated non-believers and general non-assholes and the like, to replace the Good planes that would have naturally taken them in had they not been nuked by the Void.

I ask because I assume a God's demiplane is a lot more complex than anything a mortal magic user can forge with a spell.
 
So, the problem is twofold, then:
1) It won't become relevant to our Godcrafting for a while.
2) It is going to degrade all the while, regardless of relevance.

@DragonParadox, would putting Storm God on keeping the Demiplace together be a viable option of payment for the sacrifice (the Anu's Avatar-corpse)?
And I mean just keeping it together, making sure we have it available for ~half a year to a year from now with little change from how it is now.

If yes, would we have to pay on top to also recover as much Divine/crafting/etc lore as possible from Anu's corpse?
 
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