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

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I always love when DP gets to roll things in the background and we see them, even if they are little things like Aenie (I think?) getting pestered by suitors
 
[X] Plan Victim of Success
-[X] Congratulate her on this discovery to the tune of 1,000 IM and a highly lucrative job offer.
-[X] You would like to fund further research into this and similar substances, under the appropriate amount of extreme and paranoid secrecy.
-[X] She would get a research grant of 20,000 IM for now, dedicated laboratories, research assistants and a security detail from the Inquisition. (Total cost of 30,000 IM on our end.)
-[X] If she accepts, she should look into:
--[X] Means to turn this substance into an aerosol.
--[X] Means to allow this substance to interrupt the use of SLA's or other similar, innate abilities of a magical nature. Preferably as an aerosol.
--[X] Similar substances, that do not only interrupt the ability to cast spells, but also musculature and consciousness. Preferably as an aerosol.
 
I will keep saying it every time that table gets used, please remove Allistair from it and let him level up either by your decision or by some roll that is not designed for groups of dozens at least.
He keeps making the impression of being the world's worst student.

Edit: Same for the Nighwatch Bard and those two Sorcerers.
 
[X] Azel

Artemis1992 said:
I will keep saying it every time that table gets used, please remove Allistair from it and let him level up either by your decision or by some roll that is not designed for groups of dozens at least.
He keeps making the impression of being the world's worst student.

Edit: Same for the Nighwatch Bard and those two Sorcerers.
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I have to agree, this is getting ridiculous.
 
[X] Azel

One question: what part of the world we havent reach yet? I would like to fund teams to explore and see what happen, in part to have mini aventures were we could plunder stuff, in part to see the other corner like Quarth and sarnor.

is a bad idea?.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Nov 16, 2020 at 3:21 PM, finished with 18 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] Plan Victim of Success
    -[X] Congratulate her on this discovery to the tune of 1,000 IM and a highly lucrative job offer.
    -[X] You would like to fund further research into this and similar substances, under the appropriate amount of extreme and paranoid secrecy.
    -[X] She would get a research grant of 20,000 IM for now, dedicated laboratories, research assistants and a security detail from the Inquisition. (Total cost of 30,000 IM on our end.)
    -[X] If she accepts, she should look into:
    --[X] Means to turn this substance into an aerosol.
    --[X] Means to allow this substance to interrupt the use of SLA's or other similar, innate abilities of a magical nature. Preferably as an aerosol.
    --[X] Similar substances, that do not only interrupt the ability to cast spells, but also musculature and consciousness. Preferably as an aerosol.
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Part MMMDCXLIX: Laws of the Land
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    • Laws of the Land ​

    Thirty First Day of the Third Month 294 AC

    After authorizing a thousand mark payment and twenty thousand mark project looking into mind worm venom you turn your thoughts to how the wheels of the kingdom have turned these past months.

    Lost 30,000 IM

    The news you find is decidedly mixed. On the one hand the Imperial Military Academy would be opening its doors next month, allowing an extra moth of preparation before it starts taking in Westerosi students in the aftermath of your campaign there. Likely a boon on its own since even the most loyal scions of young Westerosi nobility are likely to be disruptive to some degree before the true nature of the academy and the Legion it was created to serve sinks in.

    Even beyond that however you are starting to see the first examples of institutional inter-disciplinary integration. Scholarum mages and engineers and historians from the University of Sorcerer's Deep working to give the officers of tomorrow a more well rounded education. Even a few of the more forethoughtful officers of today, to judge from the letters from the faculty.

    Alas, while more wide ranging administrative efforts continue throughout the Stepstones and Tyrosh from administration to law enforcement, efforts to expand the Imperial Post into the Western Disputed Lands have ground to a halt ironically due to a series controversial judgements by a local magistrate seeking to expedite the project. The judge, a new appointment and not familiar with the area's history, inflamed a local feud between two local magnates by siding blatantly with one side over who was to be compensated for land taken over by the postal service.

    In and of itself that might have smoothed out in good time, but later appeals to postcognition and other forms of divination revealed that the ruling was made based on false documents, giving the impression of an Imperial Magistrate acting at best arbitrary and tyrannical and at worst complicit. One might almost wish it was the latter over the former, but investigations by the Lawmen showed no evidence of bribery or other malfeasance. He simply wished to expedite the project and so ruled in favor of the first family to present credible documentation of ownership.

    Expand Imperial Military Academy (20/20) -> Critical Success (Better Interdisciplinary integration, lower chances of friction)
    Expand Administration in Stepstones (7/49)
    Expand Law Enforcement in Stepstones (19/70)
    Investigate Enemy Spies in Stepstones -> None found
    Establish Inquisition Base in Old Town (8/7)
    Expand Administration in Tyrosh (9/39)
    Investigate Enemy Spies in Tyrosh -> None found
    Establish Messenger Service in the Western Disputed Lands (5/115) -> Critical Failure (Legal Complications tie up project)

    Still, according to Malarys, you can turn the precedent into a useful moment for your fledgling magistrate's corps by increasing the standards of proof needed in contractual and civil suits. Criminal trials of course already make use of truth-circles and the House of Mirror's divination wherever possible, but expanding the use of such magic to all areas of the law could make judgements more solid all around.

    On the other side of the scales the Empire is vast and only likely to get larger still, and the House of Mirrors is a relatively small institution and liable to grow more slowly following the security concerns raised this past month. Thus you could either seriously curtail services to private citizens to allow the judiciary to make more use of the House of Mirrors or put off the change in policy until the number of diviners grows.

    What do you do?

    [] Reduce the availability of House of Mirror services to the general public to allow the judiciary to call upon it more in matters of civil and contract law

    [] Let things stand as they are for now

    [] Write in

    OOC: Technically there is also the option of less security checks for the House of Mirrors to allow them to expand faster, but I know the thread too well by now to give that option.
     
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    • DragonParadox said:
    Laws of the Land ​

    Thirty First Day of the Third Month 294 AC

    After authorizing a thousand mark payment and twenty thousand mark project looking into mind worm venom, you turn your thoughts to how the wheels of the kingdom have turned these past months.

    Lost 30,000 IM

    The news you find is decidedly mixed. On the one hand, the Imperial military academy would be opening its doors next month, allowing an extra month of preparation before it starts taking in Westerosi students in the aftermath of your campaign there. Likely a boon on its own, since even the most loyal scions of young Westerosi nobility are likely to be disruptive to some degree before the true nature of the academy and the legion it was created to serve sinks in.

    Even beyond that, however, you are starting to see the first examples of institutional inter-disciplinary integration. Scholarum mages and engineers and historians from the University of Sorcerer's Deep working to give the officers of tomorrow a more well-rounded education. Even a few of the more forethoughtful officers of today, to judge from the letters from the faculty.

    Alas, while more wide ranging administrative efforts continue throughout the Stepstones and Tyrosh, from administration to law enforcement, efforts to expand the Imperial Post into the Western Disputed Lands have ground to a halt, ironically due to a series controversial judgements by a local magistrate seeking to expedite the project. The judge, a new appointment and not familiar with the area's history, inflamed a local feud between two local magnates, by siding blatantly with one side over who was to be compensated for land taken over by the postal service.

    In and of itself, that might have smoothed out in good time, but later appeals to postcognition and other forms of divination revealed that the ruling was made based on false documents, giving the impression of an Imperial Magistrate acting at best arbitrary and tyrannical, and at worst complicit. One might almost wish it was the latter over the former, but investigations by the lawmen showed no evidence of bribery or other malfeasance. He simply wished to expedite the project and so ruled in favor of the first family to present credible documentation of ownership.

    Expand Imperial Military Academy (20/20) -> Critical Success (Better Interdisciplinary integration lower chances of friction)
    Expand Administration in Stepstones (7/49)
    Expand Law Enforcement in Stepstones (19/70)
    Investigate Enemy Spies in Stepstones -> None found
    Establish Inquisition Base in Old Town (8/7)
    Expand Administration in Tyrosh (9/39)
    Investigate Enemy Spies in Tyrosh -> None found
    Establish Messenger Service in the Western Disputed Lands (5/115) -> Critical Failure (Legal Complications tie up project)

    Still, according to Malarys you can turn the precedent into a useful moment for your fledgling magistrate's corps by increasing the standards of proof needed in contractual and civil suits. Of course, criminal trials already make use of truth-circles and the House of Mirror's divination wherever posibile, but expanding the use of such magic to all areas of the law could make judgements more solid all around.

    On the other side of the scales, the empire is vast and only likely to get larger while the House of Mirrors is a relatively small institution and liable to grow more slowly following the security concerns raised this past month. Thus, you could either seriously curtail services to private citizens to allow the judiciary to make more use of the House of Mirrors, or put off the change in policy until the number of diviners grows.

    What do you do?

    [] Reduce the availability of House of Mirror services to the general public to allow the judiciary to call upon it more in matters of civil and contract law
    [] Let things stand as they are for now

    [] Write in

    OOC: Technically there is also the option of less security checks for the House of Mirrors to allow them to expand faster, but I know the thread too well by now to give that option. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
     
    Duesal said:
    This is a load of bullshit and we all know it. There are definitely spies.
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    At a certain level of ability, not to mention magical skill or the resources to purchase it, spies who don't act overtly, choosing instead to simply keep to their cover and gather information, are going to be extremely difficult if not impossible to catch. That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying, of course, because our efforts makes it harder for spies to operate, limits their avenues for successful infiltration, and reduces the information available to them.
     
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