He will know about it after he seems SD for the swearing in, so yes a lot of them will likely know what they can do and will likely want one.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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He will know about it after he seems SD for the swearing in, so yes a lot of them will likely know what they can do and will likely want one.
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Just make it a first-come, first-serve waiting list with loyalists getting to skip in line a bit. We could always just buy Efreeti loot from the Shaitan to fuel the rituals.
Why do you think so? I mostly care about having a good tracker along, but I always thought Soft Strider, beside being a fortune cookie, is one.
Edit: Switched Soft Strider for some Wild Hunt people. Those leading a bunch of undead monsters after you should make a sufficiently clear statement about what pulling a runner on us will get you.
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Goldfish
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I might be remembering this wrong (shocker, I know), but I thought she had expressed reluctance in the past for being involved in violence, or maybe that was just violence when the enemies weren't existential threats, like armies of vengeful Undead. Even if this isn't quite the case, there are so few of the Children of the Forest left, I'm somewhat reluctant to risk Soft Strider when there are better alternatives.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
Well, predictable, but sucks to suck I guess.
Well, you're not right, but also you're incredibly not wrong.
You see, your problem isn't the lack of competent Gods, but instead the lack of competent God interpreters. Maybe you should get ones who don't completely blow chunks?
Do you remember that one little detail about all this where you can't survive without divination wards and you end up being ultra mega-boned by an Inquisition kill team?
Seems a special lack of critical thinking and poor judgement drove these guys. @DragonParadox, what on Old Gods' green earth made this bunch roll several consecutive natural 1s? Did they do a bunch of stupid shit like the Mountain and his men and use magic to torture, rape and murder across the land, and Tywin let them get away with it because of the same reasons as with the Mountain?
Well, it wouldn't surprise me, even if the two are incredibly not the same given one group will maybe burn down an inn every few months and slay a few peasants every so often, and these guys were probably far less restrained. Having cosmic power and the willingness to abuse it, people usually abuse it a fuck ton.
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- Germany
I'm pretty sure they just plain panicked and didn't think things through to any degree. They are probably Divining their own future right now and are high-key freaking out over the Wild Hunt coming after them, while completely missing the still Mindblanked Aradia and Undead.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
How do you not guess that our response would likely be incredibly negative if they fled? What assurance did they have that fleeing would have any different result?
If they thought we were looking for scapegoats... they made themselves that when they decided to run away, and they guaranteed a violent, painful death by causing us a small inconvenience on the way out.
If they thought we were looking for scapegoats... they made themselves that when they decided to run away, and they guaranteed a violent, painful death by causing us a small inconvenience on the way out.
Goldfish
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I expect the abuses probably weren't so extreme as the Mountain was prone to committing, but there was probably something noteworthy, else they wouldn't have been quite so panicky as to slaughter the sitting Lord, his heirs, and dozens of arsmen. It could just be some sunk cost crap, I suppose, but it doesn't feel like that.
@DragonParadox, do we know how many Golden Shield mages were stationed there, and how many Red Cloaks they had with them?
The lord was already calling to hang them, that is as negative as it gets. From witness accounts he drew steel and motioned his armsmen forward, one of the mages cast sleep and it did not work on all of them... then the others started slinging lethal spells and in the end the mages were the only ones left standing among far too many corpses.
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- Germany
My money is on precisely the scenario I already outlined in my message happening. Their leader is Inner Circle and did some bad stuff, so he abused the Geasa, his authority and whatever else available to rope the other Golden Shields into helping him save his own beacon.
Look at the details here. Lord Sarsfield immediately went after them without any order or even presence from Imperial forces. And he did not try to capture, but to kill. We have no idea what the Golden Shields did here beside the Geas itself, but it was bad enough that Sarsfield wanted them all dead immediately. For all we know they had his wife and daughter enchanted too and took turns with them, or something equally fucked up. There would have been nothing stopping the Golden Shields from doing something whatever they wanted and frankly, with the complete trainwreck that organisation was becoming, I'm pretty sure we will find cases like that sooner or later. Give a large group of people complete and utter control over other people and it's only a matter of time before someone gives in to his absolutely worst urges.
So... they had a lord who wanted to murder them, an Imperium that was extremely likely to do the same and a stretch of forest that had a tiny chance of hiding them long enough to figure out a better plan to escape the first two.
To the forest it was.
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Why not cast more Sleeps, Greases, Glitterdusts, Flashbursts, Calm Emotions, Snares, Charm Person... etc. etc.
Seems like it would have had similar results--non-lethal combat spells tend to have pretty extreme effects at lower levels anyway. All of those things would have shut down regular mundane martial types, especially if they're mostly just Warriors backed up with a small core of Fighters.
Seems like it would have had similar results--non-lethal combat spells tend to have pretty extreme effects at lower levels anyway. All of those things would have shut down regular mundane martial types, especially if they're mostly just Warriors backed up with a small core of Fighters.
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- Germany
Yeah... that sounds like someone had an axe to grind with them over something...
Either they panicked too or someone in that crowd was hoping to get rid of a witness to whatever they did and everyone around them followed suit after the first Fireball.
Goldfish
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All it would take is one dude escalating to a Fireball or Lightning Bolt, or a mage taking a crossbow bolt to the cranium, and what could have been a relatively bloodless encounter would have likely exploded into something altogether messier.
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- United States
It's amazing just how much they dug their own grave here.
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Goldfish
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
I'm actually surprised that we have not seen more incidents like this so far.
When it's all said and done, we're probably going to learn of several instances of Golden Shield excesses and abuse.
- Location
- United States
Well, we did need scapegoats. The ones that were smart enough to keep their heads down we can spare, everyone else goes on trial.
- Location
- Africa
the entire re conquest of Westewros including the Westerlands took place over the course of a single day , odds are there hasn't been enough time for victims to be emboldened enough to come forward with accusations of abuse against the golden shields .
@DragonParadox seeing a we have effectively conquered an entire continent over the course of a single day what are the odd of gaining another mythic level ? , even if it did take months in IC and years OC of preparing the land for swift conquest and removing any sort of powerful opposition most people in Westeros would not be aware of those preparations to them the Dragon was so powerful that he conquered their entire continent in a single day will be all they can see
- Location
- The Netherlands
unlikely we alreaddy got to MR 5 from crowning ourselves. we need something a lot bigger for a next MR
- Location
- Germany
This is rather helpful, but with the reorganization, we will need to shuffle a few things around.
The baseline for a Battalion should be 2x Interplanar Whispering Brazier (1,620 IM), Gemstone Table Anchors (~2,500 IM) and I think 10 of each rings (3,600 IM) and some Purificiation items (~1,000 IM). That clocks in at around 8,700 IM per Batallion, so I would round that up to 10,000 IM to have some more space for odds and ends. So if we peg a Batallion at needing two months to train, they would cost 0.5 Enchanting points to work on.
Since the banners are a good bit more costly than I thought, I'd make them an attachment and lower the base Psychic Defense back to 0. The attachment would be Land Speed +1, +0.2 Psychic Defense, and price those in at 1 month and 3 Enchantment cost, which would be the two Lords Banners and one PfE banner per Batallion.
So a full Legion would cost 1.5 Enchanting Capacity over two months (2 Infantry and 1 Cavalry Batallion) and equipping each of them with banners requires a total of 9 Enchanting Capacity over 1 Month.
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- Germany
Single night actually. We started at 22:00 in the night and it's about 06:00 to 07:00 right now. Dawn should be at around 08:00 in Casterly Rock and 07:00 in Kings Landing.
So we kept our promise that the Dragon Banner would be flying over those places when the sun rises again.
- Location
- France
I can't really think of ways the Others could match Wyverns (and biggers ships like the Dauntless and the Moonchaser) until I remembered that not everyone has to go full magitech. Sure the Devils and the Djinn/Efreet/Shaitan have armoured airships with their own cannons, but the Others and Deep Ones can probably just focus on killing or subverting the squishy crew inside our airships.
- There are effects that don't care about line of effect, and which could kill the crew if you ready an action and/or fly up to hit the vessel. For example, Deep Ones with Burrowing Power Metapsionic Feat can use psionic powers through walls and force effects (and can likely pick out targets with Mindsight).
- EDIT: There is also Transdimensional spell abuse. Stand in the sky or fly around on the Etheral Plane, undetected by our heavily armoured vessel because it can't see Etheral stuff at range. When it passes by, use a spell with the Transdimensional Spell metamagic. It should affect the crew because the walls don't block Line of Effect as they're on another Plane, while living targets will be affected because of Transdimensional Spell.
- IIRC our Airships aren't really defended against Teleportation or incorporeal flying enemies, so Shadows who fly aboard (under the cover of a storm? By waiting for the Wyvern to pass through them as they wait, quasi-invisible in the night sky?) or anything with non-LoS Teleportation (so not the Greater Teleport SLA that devils have, but things like Dimension Door would work) can hop inside and start killing the low-level humans and mid-level guards/creatures sprinkled in among them.
- And obviously a high-level caster or monster can destroy them. That's not cost-effective, but it works.
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- Germany
The big ones are teleport-proof and secure against incorporeals going through the walls, the Wyverns are not.
I have some concepts ready against the big ships, something to break through the Brilliant Barriers and then the hull. Despite these effects.
But I can't think of much against the Wyvern operating at their usual speed, not without going magitech.
Sure, ghosts hiding in the sky can work, but the sky is a large area and unlike mines a waiting ghost has no AoE.
Edit: Burrowing Power can propably target the pilots, but that comes back to requiring high-level casters.
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