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

Crake said:

Mechanically, how long would we have to hold onto it? I'm guessing with how shaky the market for these goods are, it basically guarantees we get no profit, but the name of the game is avoiding a loss but making gains in political favors.

We also don't have to buy up everything. Someone else close to us could speculate and buy-in as well.

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BronzeTongue said:

Maybe we can fund the salamanders' defenses with a Xorn bake sale.

Seriously though, like it or not all that precious metal is now part of our economy, leaving it where it is just delays the problem at the expense of an already suffering province.

I am curious what this stuff is though @DragonParadox . Are we talking standard gold and silver sorts of metals, or are the salamanders using something more native to their plane that might actually be inherently useful to us?

[X] Have the throne buy the precious metal then slowly sell it off pane to get it out of circulation as you did to soften the first blow

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Speed53066 said:

Seems that we need Fiet currency ASAP to make sure our currency doesn't become useless.

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DragonParadox said:

On the Clock ​

Ninth Day of the Twelfth Month 294 AC

The most frustrating of failures are are those one might call 'technical successes'. There is nothing technical about them
-Attributed to the unknown Braavosi inventor of the repeating crossbow-

The Permeable Arcane Veil Project was one of the most well funded and visible research projects in the whole of the Imperium, drawing the best and the brightest of the innovation-minded sorcerers in the realm. There were rumors of other avenues of study, of course, secret projects for which you had to sign away your silence, your privacy before the diviner's eye, and as the jest went, your soul, but really those were more akin to the drunken musings of what the Excelsus Necros Plastes actually did in the depths of his secret lair. For Leila Goldenhammer, this was the most impressive, the most prestigious project she could be a part of, and she was as nervous as she had been on speaking privately to the Imperator that first day...

Well alright, not quite that bad. She was a woman of means now, robed in the signs and the badges of her guild. She was a Sorcerer's Deep graduate, which was quite the cachet for all her year of graduation was technically even earlier than the First Class, as she had been trained before the Tower had been set upon the green. On her left side she wore the jagged gold-threaded rune of the sun, the mark of a trained rune-caster which she shared with few others in the Scholarum.

Judging from the surprised look on the face of the grey-haired man who had come to greet her, he had been expecting something else when he had called for rune-caster aid. "Too young or just too much of a western barbarian?" Leila asked lightly. It was always good to know if she was dealing with one of those, and she had found the best way to probe for it was to make a joke out of it and see if they bit the hook.

"Not enough of a barbarian, actually. I was expecting some sort of hoary old legacy from the far north," he replied, putting out his hand forthrightly. Legacy was the word that the newly trained mages since the Awakening called those who had practiced sorcery before, it was a term of many sides. On the one hand, wary respect for anyone who had actually managed to draw water from stone as it were, yet on the other there was disdain for some of the methods used. It was all too often not water being drawn, but blood. While the Scholarum did practice blood magic, it was in a far more structured way than that.

"Classically trained from my first cantrip," Leila shook the offered hand. "What seems to be the trouble here? I mean not to get too technical, but I would rather not walk into my first circle meeting clueless..."

"Law of Identity, basically." He raised a hand as though seeking forbearance. "I know... I know... that is like an engineer telling you the problem with the boiler is steam pressure existing, but those are the sorts of problems we get paid the Sovereigns to solve." At Leila's raised eyebrow, he corrected, "Well alright, we get paid in dragons, but the budget...well, you have to see to believe that."

I hope that was not an invitation to skim off the top. Getting the lawmen called on one of my new colleagues would be a rather awkward start to joining a new circle, Leila thought. Instead of pressing the matter, she asked, "How do you mean Law of Identity?"

"Well, we have not figured out how to get large vehicles like Wyverns through a forcefield without both sides being made by the same enchanter using the Law of Sympathy, but obviously we can't have one enchanter make every single piece of military hardware in the whole Imperium."

"Even the Imperatrix needs her sleep sometime," Leila joked. "I can see why you thought runes might help given the way they restructure power into predictable patterns, but I have not had a lot of experience working with force effects. I will have to take some time to familiarize myself with the underlying principles, and then with what you have done here at PAVP..."

"Of course, of course, we are only mages here, not miracle workers," came the response in like tone as Leila's new colleague lead her into the main staff room assigned to the project.

Further improvements in permeable Force Effects - Tier 3: 28 (Failure)

Result: Project must be retried next turn

OOC: The roll was not bad enough for any sort of radiation breach so I just took the chance to present moire about Scholarum culture. Not yet edited.

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