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

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Duesal said:
Twilight's been dethroned by Game of Thrones: Season 8. There is a new king of horrendous writing.
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I will have to disagree, but only on the basis that my wife doesn't even know what game of thrones is.. somehow. Why did I marry her again?

Anyways that means I don't get constant reminders on how much season 8 sucks.

While that other... filth... is so burned into my mind from constant reminders of the ex gf obsession with it that I will always hate it above all else.

I mean many nights spent discussing who suited Bella better.... It was torture, pure torture.

Edit: I think I might have a complex.
 
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Artemis1992 said:
I thought the times of casting Twilight as the worst thing ever were over some years ago?

I mean it's bad, but there have always been bad books, be they full of boring writing, illogical stories, or contain harmful messages.
I mean, just look at the years of supernatural romance that followed, many being just as bad or worse, pure cash-grabs or unfortunatly published semi-fanfiction and without even the tiny sparks of potential creativity buried under the heap of dung that was Twilight.
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The Twilight franchise has supremely screwed over the Quiluete tribe. It deserves all the hate it gets.
 
 
CandyCoatedChaos said:
Big props to you, I just caught up a week ago after spending over a year catching up with breaks due to life happening.

Reading everything instead of just the reader mode is ironman stuff!
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I love watching all the players interact and plan and see how things come to life, but it slows things down dramatically. I alternate between reading it all and skipping the stuff between chapters.
 
Tomcost said:
One day... one day I will get someone to use one of those broken no save combos like Avascuate and Power Word Petrify
[X] Goldfish
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It's a powerful combo, but only useful against certain types of enemies. Avasculate doesn't work on anything immune to Death Effects and Power Word: Petrify doesn't work on anything Immune to Compulsion effects. We don't fight many enemies nowadays that aren't Immune to at least one of these.
 
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Goldfish said:
It's a powerful combo, but only useful against certain types of enemies. Avasculate doesn't work on anything immune to Death Effects and Power Word: Stun doesn't work on anything Immune to Compulsion effects. We don't fight many enemies nowadays that aren't Immune to at least one of these.
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... But I meant Petrify! Instant capture! Or at least after Richard beats the hell out of it!
 
I might have missed it at some point.. Do we have eyes on the Westerlands and Tywin enough to prevent him from opening a portal to hell, or ally to any one of our enemies once he realizes he has no way forward?

I mean as soon as Robert has died and followed shortly after with Jamie, Cersei and Kevan dying, he is kinda gonna get worried.

He isn't dumb enough to not see the writing on the wall. Kinda doubt he will just hole up at the rock and think he can beat us himself.

Kinda feel he is the kinda guy to decide ruling Westeros under the yoke of Asmodeus for example is better then his family and power destroyed and all power in his enemies hand.

We already know Lannister mages have been on other planes. So quite a large chance something not good would happen in the Westerlands.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Oct 19, 2020 at 2:05 PM, finished with 51 posts and 18 votes.
  • [X] Try to capture it
    -[X] Viserys will use Superior Initiative and one Mythic Power to gain an action to activate his Belt of Battle, allowing him to target the Olethrodaemon with Chain Dispel via Wild Arcana (+22 bonus to Dispel). He will then cast Assay Spell Resistance and target it with an Amber Sarcophagus spell using Wild Arcana (CL 32 to overcome SR).
    -[X] Malarys will cancel his Sign buff to set his Initiative to +24, casts Assay Spell Resistance, then targets the Olethrodaemon with an Amber Sarcophagus spell using Miracle (CL 31 to overcome SR). He uses his Battlemagic Perception spell to Counterspell as a Free Action, if Zherys isn't able to.
    -[X] Dany casts Assay Spell Resistance and targets the Olethrodaemon with Dimensional Lock using Inspired Spell (CL 30 to overcome SR). She uses her Battlemagic Perception spell to Counterspell as a Free Action, if Zherys isn't able to.
    -[X] Zherys will ready an action to Counterspell anything the Olethrodaemon tried to cast. If necessary, he will first use Battlemagic Perception as a Free Action, then his Ring of Spell-Battle as an Immediate Action, then a Greater Dispel Magic as a Swift Action, and finally a Stilled Greater Dispel Magic as a Standard Action.
    -[X] Richard prepares to engage the Olethrodaemon in a full round of murderblendering, charging it as soon as combat begins. We might prefer to capture it, but that doesn't mean we can't make an effort to physically incapacitate it.
    [X] Try to capture it. That Daemon is powerful, competent and capable of appreciating the bigger picture. Only True Death will do. To say nothing about any other backup plans it has against regular death.
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CandyCoatedChaos said:
I might have missed it at some point.. Do we have eyes on the Westerlands and Tywin enough to prevent him from opening a portal to hell, or ally to any one of our enemies once he realizes he has no way forward?

I mean as soon as Robert has died and followed shortly after with Jamie, Cersei and Kevan dying, he is kinda gonna get worried.

He isn't dumb enough to not see the writing on the wall. Kinda doubt he will just hole up at the rock and think he can beat us himself.

Kinda feel he is the kinda guy to decide ruling Westeros under the yoke of Asmodeus for example is better then his family and power destroyed and all power in his enemies hand.

We already know Lannister mages have been on other planes. So quite a large chance something not good would happen in the Westerlands.
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We are currently infiltrating his main facilities under the Rock, so yes.

And no, please do not see this as a start to begin talking about increasingly paranoid scenarios. I'm not interested in having to design an undead surveillance tapeworm for Tywin Lannister.
 
Azel said:
We are currently infiltrating his main facilities under the Rock, so yes.

And no, please do not see this as a start to begin talking about increasingly paranoid scenarios. I'm not interested in having to design an undead surveillance tapeworm for Tywin Lannister.
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Good, as long as an eye is kept out. And I really don't want to imagine who would want to argue to get that acquainted with Tywins body even for the information. That's just ugh. We created alot of things but i hope we won't start going to that length.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Oct 19, 2020 at 2:05 PM, finished with 51 posts and 18 votes.
  • [X] Try to capture it
    -[X] Viserys will use Superior Initiative and one Mythic Power to gain an action to activate his Belt of Battle, allowing him to target the Olethrodaemon with Chain Dispel via Wild Arcana (+22 bonus to Dispel). He will then cast Assay Spell Resistance and target it with an Amber Sarcophagus spell using Wild Arcana (CL 32 to overcome SR).
    -[X] Malarys will cancel his Sign buff to set his Initiative to +24, casts Assay Spell Resistance, then targets the Olethrodaemon with an Amber Sarcophagus spell using Miracle (CL 31 to overcome SR). He uses his Battlemagic Perception spell to Counterspell as a Free Action, if Zherys isn't able to.
    -[X] Dany casts Assay Spell Resistance and targets the Olethrodaemon with Dimensional Lock using Inspired Spell (CL 30 to overcome SR). She uses her Battlemagic Perception spell to Counterspell as a Free Action, if Zherys isn't able to.
    -[X] Zherys will ready an action to Counterspell anything the Olethrodaemon tried to cast. If necessary, he will first use Battlemagic Perception as a Free Action, then his Ring of Spell-Battle as an Immediate Action, then a Greater Dispel Magic as a Swift Action, and finally a Stilled Greater Dispel Magic as a Standard Action.
    -[X] Richard prepares to engage the Olethrodaemon in a full round of murderblendering, charging it as soon as combat begins. We might prefer to capture it, but that doesn't mean we can't make an effort to physically incapacitate it.
    [X] Try to capture it. That Daemon is powerful, competent and capable of appreciating the bigger picture. Only True Death will do. To say nothing about any other backup plans it has against regular death.
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Interlude CMXXV: Snaring Midnight
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    • Snaring Midnight ​

    Eleventh Day of the Third Month 294 AC

    Zherys had never spent much time in the company of the Ibbenese, their crude manners and hollow boasts grating to the ear. He thus was perhaps more relieved than was altogether wise to see the feast beginning to wind down, their 'host' having obtained whatever it desired of this night. Thankfully the Princess had not spent the whole evening looking to the well-being of some minor merchant of the isles. "I have the public façade of the mansion mapped out by ethereal scouts, my bet is that the daemonhost is going to go into one of the chambers they could not enter for fear of wards, libraries or ritual chambers. No sense in wasting hours giving its host more than the minimum amount of sleep when the poor bastard will decompose in a matter of months and be too far gone for public outings in weeks."

    "How certain are you of that diagnosis?"     Zherys asked over the same mental web that bound together the four of them and the newly arrived Lord Vanor.

    "Enough to stake an enemy's life on, but not any of ours," came the instant reply as the Princess caught his eye from across the room, a proud tilt to her shoulders and a spark of humor in her eye. Almost enough to make one regret putting off securing his own family succession, though sadly Zherys doubted any children he might sire would be good company, not to mention useful near as swiftly as young Daenerys.

    "Then we need to catch up to the daemon before it gets to wherever it is going while it is in known areas of the house." The king drew the wayfinder and tossed it to his sister.

    A pair of guards standing silently by the door were starting to move, perhaps a bit too swiftly for living things... but it was much too late. The five of them linked hands and with a lurch of the ground flying from under their feet they were elsewhere. The thing was halfway up a flight of stairs and they were at the bottom.

    In a flash almost faster than the eye could follow the the substance of reality rippled at the King's command, a pair of warding spells collapsing before the daemon-host even had the time to whirl about to face them. Then it seemed as though the battle was over before it had begun as the Ibbenese merchant became trapped in a cage of amber light that tuned solid in an instant.

    Alas that it was not to be, for the stuff of primal darkness spills forth through the amber, seeming to disdain the matter of its prison just as it did its dying host. For a moment the thing seems too large to fit in the chamber, or perhaps the world entire, a curse of unmaking being spat from one of its many mouths.

    Zherys Naethyreon was not one to expect easy triumphs and so he was ready still, to pit mortal lore thirty years in the finding against whatever lore of ageless horror had begotten this thing. So did the skill prove itself that day, the curse stillborn upon the fiend's many tongues. The battle mage's ring upon his finger burned white hot, denying the thing its second flight.

    Though Lord Vanor sought to trap it, this time in it true form, the bindings seemed to crumble at the touch of half-glimpsed flesh taking heart, if heart such a thing could be said to have as it raised a wall of shimmering blue light that illuminated naught but itself before it, cutting off the Westerosi knight barely two steps from striking it. Again Zherys set himself against the working, the memory of every torturous attempt to gather power like dewdrops in the Red Wastes in his mind.

    So it had been, and for that moment, for that one fiend, so it was. The wall of power died in an instant... and dragon steel tasted corrupted flesh. A moment later the enemy had been bound in place by the princess' spell.

    Before it could draw breath for another incantation, the King had taken advantage of the daemon's binding to bind it in a prism of amber so vast it scraped the ceiling, so heavy it shattered the stairs with an almighty crack.

    What do you do next?

    [] Take the daemon and go, no one will miss it

    [] Try to recover the former Daemonhost as well
    -[] To take captive
    -[] Heal and release

    [] Attempt to clear out any arcane and business documents in the manse

    [] Write in

    OOC: I did play a bit fast and lose with the initiative at the beginning, putting Malarys' attempted binding between the daemon's actions, but seeing as it failed the result was the same either way and the narrative flowed better.
     
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    • DragonParadox said:
    Snaring Midnight ​

    Eleventh Day of the Third Month 294 AC

    Zherys had never spent much time in the company of the Ibbenese, their crude manners and hollow boasts grating to the ear. He was thus perhaps more relieved than was altogether wise to see the feast beginning to wind down, their 'host' having obtained whatever it desired of this night. Thankfully, the princess had not spent the whole evening looking to the wellbeing of some minor merchant of the isles. "I have the public facade of the mansion mapped out by ethereal scouts. My bet is that the daemonhost is going to go into one of the chambers they could not enter for fear of wards, libraries, or ritual chambers. No sense in wasting hours giving its host more than the minimum amount of sleep when the poor bastard will decompose in a matter of months and be too far gone for public outings in weeks."

    "How certain are you of that diagnosis?"     Zherys asked over the same mental web that bound the four of them and the newly arrived Lord Vanor.

    "Enough to stake an enemy's life on, but not any of ours," came the instant reply as the princess caught his eye from across the room, a proud tilt to her shoulders, a spark of humor in her eye. Almost enough to make one regret putting off securing his own family succession, though sadly Zherys doubted any children he might sire would be good company, not to mention useful near as swiftly as young Daenerys.

    "We need to catch up to the daemon before it gets to wherever it is going then, while it is in known areas of the house." The king drew the wayfinder and tossed it to his sister.

    A pair of guards, previously standing silent by the door, were starting to move, perhaps a bit too swiftly for living things... but it was much too late. The five of them linked hands and with a lurch of the ground flying from under their feet, they were elsewhere. The thing was half way up a flight of stairs and they were at the bottom.

    In a flash almost faster than the eye could follow, the substance of reality rippled at the king's command, a pair of warding spells collapsing before the daemon-host even had the time to whirl about to face them. Then it seemed as though the battle was over before it had begun, the Ibbenese merchant trapped in a cage of amber light that turned solid in an instant.

    Alas, that was not to be. The stuff of primal darkness spills forth through the amber, seeming to disdain the matter of its prison just as it did its dying host. For a moment the thing seems too large to fit in the chamber, or perhaps the world entire, a curse of unmaking spat from one of its many mouths.

    Zherys Naethyreon was not one to expect easy triumphs and so he was ready still to pit mortal lore thirty years in the finding against whatever lore of ageless horror had begotten that thing. So did the skill prove itself that day, the curse stillborn upon the fiend's many tongues. The battle mage's ring upon his finger burned white hot denying the thing its second flight.

    Although Lord Vanor sought to trap it, this time in it true form, the bindings seemed to crumble at the touch of half-glimpsed flesh. Taking heart, if heart such a thing could be said to have one, it raised a wall of shimmering blue light that illuminated naught but itself before it, cutting off the westerosi knight barely two steps from striking it. Again Zherys set himself against the working, the memory of every torturous attempt to gather power like dewdrops in the Red Wastes in his mind.

    So it had been, and for that moment, for that one fiend so it was. The wall of power died in an instant... and dragonsteel tasted corrupted flesh, a moment later the enemy had been bound in place by the princess' spell.

    Before it could draw breath for another incantation, the king had taken advantage of the daemon's destruction to bind it in a prism of amber so vast it scraped the ceiling, so heavy it shattered the stairs with an almighty crack.

    What do you do next?

    [] Take the daemon and go, no one will miss it

    [] Try to recover the former Damon Host as well
    -[] To take captive
    -[] Heal and release

    [] Attempt to clear out any arcane and business documents in the manse

    [] Write in

    OOC: I did play a bit fast and lose with the initiative at the beginning, putting Malarys' attempted binding between the daemon's actions but seeing as it failed the result was the same either way and the narrative flowed better. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.

    Welcome to the party, Zherys. You know you've made the big time when you're part of a small, high level strike team of superhumans accompanying the king in capturing a being that can lay waste to armies with impunity. And when you get to have casual telepathic conversations with the princess as part of your pre-battle banter.
     
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