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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:
It's been a long time, and there are plenty of things the Starks have forgotten. When we visited Winterfell in the dreamworld, it was a massive fortress... and explicitly unmanned. Nothing was guarding the walls.

The Starks have been slower than most to awaken to their heritage.
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That's actually worrying, since Ben managed to awaken his Wall back abilities quite quickly, so it's probably nothing directly affecting Winterfell.

Is Ned really that much of a screw up himself, or did something wrong happened that kept the Starks out of the loop?
 
[X] Crake

I just hope thing is more focused on torturing Robb rather than outright killing him since we can heal physical and mental damage. Sad that people in kitchen likely all fucked though.
 
Crake said:
OTOH, if we react fast we might be able to track it down. If it didn't soul kill Robb on the spot but kept him with it for some purpose, that's a plus.
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Considering it's summer and this thing isn't a "Breathe a beam of obliteration" dragon type thing, it probably needs time to destroy his soul, if it even would to begin with.

A Stark soul would be a useful weapon, or at least I'm assuming as much considering all the damn trouble it went to in making this happen at all.

If we move quick enough we might be able to keep it here or prevent it from stealing, or worse, destroying the kid's soul outright.

This fucker doesn't strike me as a professional, if it was it would have just chopped his damn head off at the start and made a break for it with the proverbial goods, sitting there and taunting him means we're dealing with a more "fey" aspect than a void one.

Funnily enough, it's thinking too much.

He's going to want to play with his food, let's make sure he chokes on it.

[X] Crake
 
Massgamer said:
[X] Crake

I just hope thing is more focused on torturing Robb rather than outright killing him since we can heal physical and mental damage. Sad that people in kitchen likely all fucked though.
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Unless it's perma-kill, rezzing has actually always been an easier prospect for us to manage than mental health.
Just look back to Viserys' depression :V
 
[X] Plan Split Up And Sound Alarms
-[X] One cat fetches the Leshy and Ned Stark for additional firepower.
-[X] One cat looks for Arya Stark and Jon Snow to warn them. Also Bran Stark I guess.
-[X] One cat shadows the assassin and, if it finds another Stark, does something to the Godswood or anything else that looks extremely dangerous, engages it as loudly as possible to delay it and draw the attention of others.
-[X] One cat looks for Rodrick Cassel to sound the alarm and get the men-at-arms into gear.

The cats alone are extremely unlikely to be able to even delay that thing. They are not meant for that. Thus, the priority becomes to get people who are capable of actually hurting it.
Also, quick reminder of what happened when we tried to resurrect the Other cleric in Volantis. Any attempts to resurrect Robb Stark should be done in the Godswood with a bunch of sacrifice items ready.
 
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DragonParadox said:
One moment he had been reaching for a pie, a smile on his face, the next his arm had been sliced off two inches above the elbow as the blade sliced through flesh as easily as air.
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You know, this thing being a cold bastard, it should have murdered him in one strike.

That didn't happen, which means that either it doesn't have enough attacking power to murder an infant in one strike, or it was trying to keep him alive.
 
[X] Azel
Good points.
Making it aware we are aware right now means it trying to escape immediately, or kill more.
This way it hopefully only handles Robb alone, if for a short while it'd take yo get someone more filthy there.

Though tbh, it escaping seems generally a worse outcome than it killing more people, mainly in light of it keeping samples/bodies wholesale to Void!rezz or otherwise affect magically from.

The cats are meant as scouts that make more tanker and hittier units aware there's a shitshow.
That they managed to stay sneaking (even if the assasin rolled like shit) is a testament to that.
They kinda suck combat-wise.

Night, all.
 
On that note, sending out ravens is pretty much pointless. The closest place they could send one to where there might be something capable of helping them in time would be the Dreadfort, and that's 600km away, a flight of 7 to 8 hours for a raven. Unless I'm forgetting that we gave a Sending Stone to Jon Snow or Ned Stark, there's no way for them to event alert outside help in time, let alone for it to arrive.
 
Wow. Well shit. Catelyns gonna loose her goddamn mind. It might be a good thing Bobby B's already dead since Cat would willingly murder him herself if it meant her husband finally throwing in with someone that could actually provide her family protection.
 
[X] Azel

If they can get the word out through the old gods, we could Teleport there ASAP. They do have a God's Wood close at hand, so it shouldn't be to difficult.
 
Azel said:
[X] Plan Split Up And Sound Alarms
-[X] One cat fetches the Leshy and Ned Stark for additional firepower.
-[X] One cat looks for Arya Stark and Jon Snow to warn them. Also Bran Stark I guess.
-[X] One cat shadows the assassin and, if it finds another Stark, does something to the Godswood or anything else that looks extremely dangerous, engages it as loudly as possible to delay it and draw the attention of others.

The cats alone are extremely unlikely to be able to even delay that thing. They are not meant for that. Thus, the priority becomes to get people who are capable of actually hurting it.
Also, quick reminder of what happened when we tried to resurrect the Other cleric in Volantis. Any attempts to resurrect Robb Stark should be done in the Godswood with a bunch of sacrifice items ready.
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They already sent the other four cats to fetch reinforcements from around the Keep.
 
A_Somebody said:
Wow. Well shit. Catelyns gonna loose her goddamn mind. It might be a good thing Bobby B's already dead since Cat would willingly murder him herself if it meant her husband finally throwing in with someone that could actually provide her family protection.
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Catelyn: "Just get over yourself already Ned! Our son is dead, because you choose your friend over your own family!"
Viserys: "I would definitely have supplied some much stronger and through protections here if you had bent the knee already. That is true."
Catelyn: "See? He would have protected us! I wouldn't have had to bury an uncle and a son dead by the Others hand if all you men could have swallowed your pride and knelt before someone who could have protected us."
Viserys: "Yes..."
 
Azel said:
On that note, sending out ravens is pretty much pointless. The closest place they could send one to where there might be something capable of helping them in time would be the Dreadfort, and that's 600km away, a flight of 7 to 8 hours for a raven. Unless I'm forgetting that we gave a Sending Stone to Jon Snow or Ned Stark, there's no way for them to event alert outside help in time, let alone for it to arrive.
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This might be a huge hail mary, and I have no idea if it would work, but one of the cats could try to sacrifice itself at the godswood to get a big screaming warning in the Green Dream and get Bloodraven's undivided attention. After that it wouldn't be long before Viserys shows up.
 
DragonParadox said:
Begotten of shadow was she and born of green growing things also but at the day's end she was still a cat, if one of uncommon coat, one of seven commanded by the Last Greenseer to see to the protection of Winterfell.
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Though on reflection, she only found three other cats there in the Maester's Tower, and sent one up to get a Raven (presumably to the Dreadfort, yes).

Leaving only three aware of the threat. I thought she met with the rest and sent them off to get help.
 
Crake said:
Brynden sent seven cats to Winterfell, and the Leshy.
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I've already seen you facelessing me, but:
DragonParadox said:
As she ran she found only a trio of her sisters near the bell tower, no sign of Ser Halys nor the wolf lord, only common men with common steel. Could they fight the Enemy alone before it could make use of Robb Stark's death?
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Only 4 are present so far with one of them then running off and wasting time. I'd rather not rely on reinforcements coming after one of the cats runs up the tower into the ravenry of all things.

Part of the reason I have one of them fetch the other kids is that I'm hoping for more cats to be found in their presence, the other obviously being that they are the likely next targets of the assassin.
 
Crake said:
Though on reflection, she only found three other cats there in the Maester's Tower, and sent one up to get a Raven (presumably to the Dreadfort, yes).

Leaving only three aware of the threat. I thought she met with the rest and sent them off to get help.
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Also, beside the distance problem and the whole thing being moot, it's pretty funny to me that the Starks situation is so bad that the most likely source of help for them would be Roose Bolton of all people. And the most likely first responders, if they somehow got message to the Dreadfort in time, would be Qyburn and maybe an Erinyes or two.

Qyburn: *teleport in*
Qyburn: "Fear not."
Everyone: *Fears and screams a whole lot.*
Qyburn: "Ḯ̷̻̟̤̩̰̲̊̾̀̉͌͂͊́͗́̚͜͝ ̴̢̧̬͔̜̟͕̰͕̯̜͎͗̉̏͜͜s̶͙̼͂̈́a̸̯̬̯͙̦͇͐̿̈́͛̽̀̈́̑͗̃̄̿̍ǐ̶̯̫̮̠̰͉̠̩̮̲͖͂̀̉̈́̓̅̑̄́̅̚͝d̸̘̜̿̓̂̋̅̈́͗͐̀́̿͆̕̕ ̵̡̗̪̳͓̌͛̊̆̾̓̓f̸̡̢̛͙͔̪̬̳̫͊̔́̉̇̿̊̅̚e̸̡̨̨̠͕̼͉̗̳̲̩̤̝͑͆̑̾͑̒͂̏̉̚ͅa̷̡̨͖̯͈̝̖̫͍̼̺͕̔́̌̈́͊͝r̸̘̈́̐̿̍̃͊̌͌̊͐̚͘ ̶̗̔̃͒̾̽̀̊̏̽̕̕͝n̸̼̥̱̖͓̼̞͚̆̈́̿͊̃̾͐̋̽̍͂͌ŏ̶̺͔͉͖̩͔͊͜t̵̨̯͚͇̒̕͠!̶̢͈̳̦̫͍̙̭̰̖̀̈́̓̍̀͑̂͐̍̊͒̈͗"
Everyone: [FEAR INTENSIFIES]
 
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