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The Heir of the Dragon: A Rhaenyra Targaryen Quest

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Had a bad feeling about the lesser Arryns doing something idiotic. Well. This is as good an opportunity to act on the advice we got as any.

Teen Spirit said:
[] [Action] Push to become involved in the Vale. (Subtle)
Instead of a direct show of force, you could maybe convince the Small Council of a more subtle message to the rebels. You have publicly talked with both Rhea Royce and Lady Arryn, so a friendly visit to their keeps on Syrax could be claimed to be just that, thus avoiding the need to make direct threats to anyone.
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It's roughly the subtility level of "US schedules carrier group exercises with allies in the area", but that's pretty much what is called for here. Keeping the Kings Peace is important and this will firmly establish the alliance we had been angling for with Jeyne Arryn and Rhea Royce.


@Teen Spirit, from prior conversations, I think you said that we could learn to sing or play an instrument as part of an Relax action?
 
[X] Plan The 70,000 Pound Dragon In The Room
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Alicent Hightower
--[X] Talk with her about her possible feelings.
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Ser Raylon Tarly
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Viserys
-[X] [Action] Train
-[X] [Action] Push to become involved in the Vale. (Subtle)

Talking with Alicent is rather necessary after everything that happened, though I'll miss all the "Clueless Lesbian"-ing that she and Rhaenyra got up to.

Speaking Tarly and Training to keep increasing our swole. Talking to Viserys about a Grand Tour while the Vale is having a rebellion brewing would likely be an abysmal failure anyway, so we need to resolve that first.

Going with the subtle approach to the Vale since it should minimize the bruised egos while still shutting this down decisively, making sure that they don't try again two months from now, and solidifying the alliances we worked on.

Lastly, use the extra for some relaxation. Syrax liked our singing a lot, so I feel we should do that again.
 
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Azel said:
[X] Plan The 70,000 Pound Dragon In The Room
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Alicent Hightower
--[X] Talk with her about her possible feelings.
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Ser Raylon Tarly
-[X] [Action] Train
-[X] [Action] Push to become involved in the Vale. (Subtle)
-[X] [Action] Relax - Learn to sing.

Talking with Alicent is rather necessary after everything that happened, though I'll miss all the "Clueless Lesbian"-ing that she and Rhaenyra got up to.

Speaking Tarly and Training to keep increasing our swole. Talking to Viserys about a Grand Tour while the Vale is having a rebellion brewing would likely be an abysmal failure anyway, so we need to resolve that first.

Going with the subtle approach to the Vale since it should minimize the bruised egos while still shutting this down decisively, making sure that they don't try again two months from now, and solidifying the alliances we worked on.

Lastly, use the extra for some relaxation. Syrax liked our singing a lot, so I feel we should do that again.
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I admit, I'm a bit uncertain with leaving the Viserys thing another turn?
 
Ok here are my provisional plans...

We need to talk with Viserys for obvious reasons, we need to clear the air with the queen, and we should not forget about our old sworn sword... Besides that, I am sure that talking with both of them would synergize very well

The only difference between my plans is wether we want to train or learn music, because we should definitively go to help our cousin...

[X] Plan: Clear the air with the Wersterlings, help our cousin and Training
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Viserys
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Lord Commander Harrold Westerling
-[X] [Conversation] Speak With Lady Johanna Westerling
-[X] [Action] Train
-[X] [Action] Push to become involved in the Vale. (Subtle)

[X] Plan: Clear the air with the Wersterlings, help our cousin, and Learn Music
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Viserys
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Lord Commander Harrold Westerling
-[X] [Conversation] Speak With Lady Johanna Westerling
-[X] [Action] Study
--[X] Learn Music
-[X] [Action] Push to become involved in the Vale. (Subtle)

Edit: I didn't saw this...
Teen Spirit said:
Yes.
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@Teen Spirit Is there any difference between learning music via relaxing or via studying?
 
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Hm... if we do have to speak with him about the annulment, then we really should get that done before going to the Vale.

Changed plan to switch relaxing out for talking with him.
 
[X] Plan: Diplomatic Maneuvers
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Viserys
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Alicent Hightower
--[X] Talk with her about her possible feelings.
-[X] [Conversation] Speak With Lady Johanna Westerling
-[X] [Action] Train
-[X] [Action] Push to become involved in the Vale. (Subtle)

I also want to talk to Tarly soon but we need to help Rhea still, and I prefer to talk to Alicent about romantic feelings before we talk to Jeyne again. And really want to try to keep relations with Johanna from souring too soon.


Also we need to get back to training. No taking two turns off in a row.
 
i KNEW we should've given jeyne a lift home. everyone was like "oh no what about a storm" and so on but we left a pretty lady on a smelly dock when as a knight of the seven kingdoms we should have escorted her safely to her home! and now theres a rebellion. i am always right and should always be listened to (this is a lie)

[X] [Action] Push to become involved in the Vale. (Subtle)
 
Parzival95 said:
[X] Plan: Diplomatic Maneuvers
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Viserys
-[X] [Conversation] Speak with Alicent Hightower
--[X] Talk with her about her possible feelings.
-[X] [Conversation] Speak With Lady Johanna Westerling
-[X] [Action] Train
-[X] [Action] Push to become involved in the Vale. (Subtle)

I also want to talk to Tarly soon but we need to help Rhea still, and I prefer to talk to Alicent about romantic feelings before we talk to Jeyne again. Also we need to get back to training. No taking two turns off in a row.
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The thing is, if we're Training we should use synergy and talk to the person who can help us train better like it implies?

[X] Plan The 70,000 Pound Dragon In The Room
 
Should maybe shore things up with Joanna if she's annoyed to stop the relationship deteriorating
 
We don't need to talk to Tarly and train on the same turn, as nice as it'd be. We'll be training lots more, Johanna's relationship is more time sensitive, I worry.
 
Folks, we need to clear the air with the Queen as soon as we are able. We could talk about how to improve our training afterwards

[X] Plan: Diplomatic Maneuvers
 
[X] Plan: Diplomatic Maneuvers

I want to talk to our tutor, but unfortunately Jeyne is right, we have to evaluate how angry the queen is at us.
 
veteranMortal said:
i KNEW we should've given jeyne a lift home. everyone was like "oh no what about a storm" and so on but we left a pretty lady on a smelly dock when as a knight of the seven kingdoms we should have escorted her safely to her home! and now theres a rebellion. i am always right and should always be listened to (this is a lie)
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Flying Jeyne back to the Eyrie would have basically stopped Arnold's rebellion before it began. With the various lords taking it as the Crown having Jeyne's back.
 
Teen Spirit said:
Flying Jeyne back to the Eyrie would have basically stopped Arnold's rebellion before it began. With the various lords taking it as the Crown having Jeyne's back.
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Pretty much why I wanted to fly her home, but it's pretty funny that they were literally just getting ready to do the very rebellion I'd anticipated for some point in the next few years.
 
Lazer Raptor said:
[X] Plan: Diplomatic Maneuvers

I want to talk to our tutor, but unfortunately Jeyne is right, we have to evaluate how angry the queen is at us.
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I feel like it'll lead to us getting way less out of the Training than we would otherwise, what with how Teen Spirit has hinted at thoughts about how to make training more interesting and dynamic. Frankly, I'd almost rather miss out on talking to Alicent than miss out on getting that set up rather than using an action poorly.

Right now, though, Queen Johanna is... like, I don't get what about her seems such a major priority right this second? It's been long enough that if she's nursing a grudge with the dance thing, we're not going to talk our way out of that?

But not long enough for literally anything else to be a problem.
 
Yes, Queen Johanna is a concern, but nothing about her feels like a concern that won't keep, and I don't really think that is worth fucking up the efficiency of our training. Like, it's in-universe been over three months.

Talking about it now would honestly just bring it up again?
 
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