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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:
Sure, just keep in mind that a good part of why that worked is that it siphoned off magic. How that would work in a higher magic environment is hard to guess.
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Could you potentially just diffuse it into absorbent material? Then you can treat it like radioactive byproducts. The Djinn already have ways to cleanse small amount of Void material, so we just need to scale up that process, probably not even by much, just in proportion to the "Void" taint produced by the sealed entity.
 
Crake said:
Could you potentially just diffuse it into absorbent material? Then you can treat it like radioactive byproducts. The Djinn already have ways to cleanse small amount of Void material, so we just need to scale up that process, probably not even by much, just in proportion to the "Void" taint produced by the sealed entity.
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Possible but would have to be studied.

Anyway, vote closed.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Nov 23, 2020 at 3:42 PM, finished with 89 posts and 26 votes.
  • [X] Try to get more information out of Robert's killer
    -[X] Sacrifice it to a god (risk that any information will be lost since it is recent and not intrinsic to the spirt)
    --[X] The Old Gods
    [X] Try to get more information out of Robert's killer
    -[X] Bargain, perhaps with Rina's aid
    --[X] Hear her out what she might want. Something like soul-death with no chance of the Void getting her soul in exchange for information would be an option (if it comes to that, Yss helps permakill)
    --[X] If she has less nihilistic desires she could join your Empire in Rina's service, contingent on her swearing off any allegiance to the Others/Void and letting any remaining risks be checked over and removed by Genie-mages and if necessary divine aid.
    --[X] This does include secure imprisonment with her word that she does not attempt to flee or harm anyone until the seperation has worked.
    [X] Try to get more information out of Robert's killer
    -[X] Sacrifice it to a god (risk that any information will be lost since it is recent and not intrinsic to the spirit)
    -[X] R'hllor the Red, be his light reveal the truth
    [X] Try to get more information out of Robert's killer
    -[x] Bargain, perhaps with Rina and waymsar's aid
    -[x] offer removal of void via magic anti other sword (I forgot it's name)
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Crake said:
Could you potentially just diffuse it into absorbent material? Then you can treat it like radioactive byproducts. The Djinn already have ways to cleanse small amount of Void material, so we just need to scale up that process, probably not even by much, just in proportion to the "Void" taint produced by the sealed entity.
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So where would we stash said voidioactive waste?
 
Well at the very least freeing Lanna Lannister, and protecting her children is pretty much guaranteeing her loyalty afterwards. Also this neatly explains all the stupid shit she has supported Tywin in. At the very least she has been infected with fear/despair/apathy that no matter what she does her husband and children are likely to be killed with her. Tywin would do it as a final fuck you for betraying him, and she doesn't know us well enough to know we wouldn't murder helpless children, now that she has the void whispering in her ear.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Nov 23, 2020 at 3:42 PM, finished with 89 posts and 26 votes.
  • [X] Try to get more information out of Robert's killer
    -[X] Sacrifice it to a god (risk that any information will be lost since it is recent and not intrinsic to the spirt)
    --[X] The Old Gods
    [X] Try to get more information out of Robert's killer
    -[X] Bargain, perhaps with Rina's aid
    --[X] Hear her out what she might want. Something like soul-death with no chance of the Void getting her soul in exchange for information would be an option (if it comes to that, Yss helps permakill)
    --[X] If she has less nihilistic desires she could join your Empire in Rina's service, contingent on her swearing off any allegiance to the Others/Void and letting any remaining risks be checked over and removed by Genie-mages and if necessary divine aid.
    --[X] This does include secure imprisonment with her word that she does not attempt to flee or harm anyone until the seperation has worked.
    [X] Try to get more information out of Robert's killer
    -[X] Sacrifice it to a god (risk that any information will be lost since it is recent and not intrinsic to the spirit)
    -[X] R'hllor the Red, be his light reveal the truth
    [X] Try to get more information out of Robert's killer
    -[x] Bargain, perhaps with Rina and waymsar's aid
    -[x] offer removal of void via magic anti other sword (I forgot it's name)
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Part MMMDCLIX: Sundered Secrets
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    • Sundered Secrets ​

    First Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    There would be too much of a risk to touch the tainted fey's mind, you decide, too much even to speak to it. True, Rina escaped the Void's grasp, but she was mortal and still struggling against her fate even before the Old Gods offered their aid. Robert's murderer would be none of those things, and whatever sliver useful information it may have given it was part and parcel to trying to drive Bloodraven to despair as it had done to Baratheon. Even if you never learn whatever it might know, the world will be a better place without an agent of Winter that can slip into the south.

    The dream had only faded from your eyes for half an hour when Sarell returns from Sorcerer's Deep with the cursed diamond in her hand. It feels painfully cold in the hand but that is nothing compared to the cracks snaking through it, finer than a hair's width, but still all too perilous. You can only guess when it might crack. "The scholar's tree for this one, do you think?" you ask Dany.

    She nods, still lost in thought from all you had learned. Unlike you, she does not even bother to change from her night tunic, simply shifting the glamor around herself.

    Dark Sister flashes in the moonlight, spellsteel meets diamond with a sound like cracking ice. You barely glimpse the pale form before the roots coil around it like serpents, crushing and tearing. There is no scream, just as there were no words of supplication, only death.

    A long moment passes then the face upon the tree seems to speak, though you hear Bloodraven in your mind. "There were no answers here." There is an edge of pain to the words that keeps you from asking any further questions.

    Dany is a touch bolder. Barely above a whisper, she asks, "So what did you get for capturing it?"

    "A headache," comes the weary reply. "There are no greater boons the Old Gods can grant me that I might take." With that the presence fades and you are left to return to the keep and the day, the month to come, one that will see you crowned and Westeros brought into the Imperium.

    But first you must see to the business of sending word to your agents in a realm that finds itself unexpectedly without a king. From the Crownlanders under Monford Velaryon and old Walder Frey plotting in his twin tower, to Roose Bolton looking down upon the South with cold pale eyes and the Tyrells hopefully chastised, you will have to be careful what message you send. It would be ill done for war to start before you are prepared to join it.

    To whom do you send letters in the aftermath of Robert's death and with what contents?

    [] Write in

    OOC: Unfortunately really short because the roll narrowly failed on the Old Gods learning anything and I need a vote on what do do next. The turn vote will probably be tomorrow.
     
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    • If y'all will give me an hour, I will post something I have been waiting to post for years.

    Edit: Not that you really have to wait on my behalf, since this is an overnight vote anyhow. YKWIM.
     
    Eh.
    You win some, you lose some.
    The Dice usually loves us, just look at all of the successful fate-turning. Like, all of it.

    I don't think this is a subject worthy of any salt whatsoever.

    ...what is worth of salt is that Lana may end up having a justification (of being posessed/controlled) given to her retardation post-factum.
    I just wanted to kill her D:{
     
    DragonParadox said:
    "A headache," comes the weary reply. "There are no greater boons the Old Gods can grant me that I might take." With that the presence fades and you are left to return to the keep and the day, the month to come, one that will see you crowned and Westeros brought into the Imperium.
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    These two don't even bat an eyelash at this admission of human weakness.

    So close. It's like the story is shoving it in our face that this guy is ready for a vacation.
     
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    Sundered Secrets ​

    First Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    There would be too much of a risk to touch the tainted fey's mind, you decide, too much even to speak to it. True, Rina escaped the Void's grasp, but she was mortal and still struggling against her fate even before the Old Gods offered their aid. Robert's murderer would be none of those things, and whatever sliver useful information it may have given it was part and parcel to trying to drive Bloodraven to despair as it had done to Baratheon. Even if you never learn whatever it might know, the world will be a better place without an agent of Winter that can slip into the south.

    The dream had only faded from your eyes for half an hour when Sarell returns from Sorcrerer's Deep with the cursed diamond in her hand. It feels painfully cold in the hand but that is nothing compared to the cracks snaking through it, finer than a hair's width, but still all too perilous. You can only guess when it might crack. "The scholar's tree for this one, do you think?" you ask Dany.

    She nods, still lost in thought from all you had learned. Unlike you, she does not even bother to change from her night tunic, simply shifting the glamor around herself.

    Dark Sister flashes in the moonlight, spellsteel meets diamond with a sound like cracking ice. You barely glimpse the pale form before the roots coil around it like serpents, crushing and tearing. There is no scream, just as there were no words of supplication, only death.

    A long moment passes then the face upon the tree seems to speak, though you hear Bloodraven in your mind. "There were no answers here." There is an edge of pain to the words that keeps you from asking any further questions.

    Dany is a touch bolder. Barely above a whisper, she asks, "So what did you get for capturing it?"

    "A headache," comes the weary reply. "There are no greater boons the Old Gods can grant me that I might take." With that the presence fades and you are left to return to the keep and the day, the month to come, one that will see you crowned and Westeros brought into the Imperium.

    But first you must see to the business of sending word to your agents in a realm that finds itself unexpectedly without a king. From the crownlanders under Monford Velaryon and old Walder Frey plotting in his tower, to Roose Bolton looking down upon the South with cold pale eyes and the Tyrells hopefully chastised, you will have to be careful what message you send. It would be ill done for war to start before you are prepared to join it.

    To whom do you send letters in the aftermath of Robert's death and with what contents?

    [] Write in

    OOC: Unfortunately really short because the roll narrowly failed on the Old Gods learning anything and I need a vote on what do do next. The turn vote will probably be tomorrow. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
     
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