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

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If we wanted to free the Deva, we'd need to sunder that what binds it here; otherwise the ghosts will just reform.
... or is there a difference between 'ghost' and 'spirit' I'm not aware of?
 
Ghosts don't enjoy any special immunity to magical flame. They just have a 50% chance to avoid them.

[X] Plan Fire. Everywhere.
-[X] With the Rod of the Battlemage, Viserys casts a Quickened Agonizing Elemental Fire Darts spell at the malevolent entity, using the remaining +4 Competence bonus from Grand Destiny on his Ranged Attack roll. He then casts Celerity, followed by an Agonizing Firebrand to blanket every square inch of the chamber not occupied by Richard and Vee, or her summoned creatures, with flames.
-[X] Vee targets the entity with Pronouncement of Fate, using Alter Fortune to make it reroll its miss chance if it avoids the spell the first time.
 
[] Would burning the dead you sustain not suffice?
-[] It would suffice: (Re-)kill the ghosts
-[] It would not: Kill the Deva

I wanna thow this Deva at Manterys and see if Yarel got acess to level 4 cleric spells from the Dawnfruit - he can teach clockwork mender swarm to lya and good and lawful versions of lesser planar ally (think that's level four?)
 
[X] Goldfish

Can't we kill the deva too? I just want it gone.

EDIT: Wait, we're not attacking the ghosts alone, we're also attacking the Deva? Does Agonizing bypass the Fire Immunity?
 
@Duesal, you gotta think long term. If we free this thing, and then it comes back to bite us, maybe people will effing listen next time when we say "getcher head out of your rear-end!"

I'm sorry, this was entirely sarcasm.

Horrible, horrible teasing. I'm a baaaad person.
 
Duesal said:
[X] Goldfish

Can't we kill the deva too? I just want it gone.
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Let's get rid of the ghosts first. We might only be able to disperse them temporarily, but that's enough for our purposes. I'm hoping the Deva will sacrifice itself to fully empower Richard's armor.

How cool would it be if its current Infernal Healing and Lesser Globe of Invulnerability power became Greater Celestial Healing, Globe of Invulnerability, and Greater Angelic Aspect?
 
Duesal said:
[X] Goldfish

Can't we kill the deva too? I just want it gone.

EDIT: Wait, we're not attacking the ghosts alone, we're also attacking the Deva? Does Agonizing bypass the Fire Immunity?
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No, we're not using the Searing ability, because I'm super wary of Viserys willingly spilling his blood in this chamber. The Deva will be unharmed by my current plan.
 
[X] Goldfish
@Goldfish
I don't think that blood sacrafice is the best idea imo, but without searing, the Deva should be immune.

Is that your intention? (Hope so :) )

Cuz i'd rather destroy the dead and not harm the Deva at this time, which your vote covers, but I'm not sure if you want to attack it or not and might change your vote to do that.
 
Goldfish said:
Let's get rid of the ghosts first. We might only be able to disperse them temporarily, but that's enough for our purposes. I'm hoping the Deva will sacrifice itself to fully empower Richard's armor.

How cool would it be if its current Infernal Healing and Lesser Globe of Invulnerability power became Greater Celestial Healing, Globe of Invulnerability, and Greater Angelic Aspect?
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I dunno. Alze might be conflicted about it. I feel bad for the dude. Power = good, but Good really rubs him the wrong way from what it can tell.
 
BeepSmile said:
[X] Goldfish
@Goldfish
I don't think that blood sacrafice is the best idea imo, but without searing, the Deva should be immune.

Is that your intention? (Hope so :) )

Cuz i'd rather destroy the dead and not harm the Deva at this time, which your vote covers, but I'm not sure if you want to attack it or not and might change your vote to do that.
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I'm not going to have us attack the Deva in my plan. At least not in this turn. That might be a mistake, but I'm going to hold out hope that this clusterfuck will end up in our favor.
 
Goldfish said:
I'm not going to have us attack the Deva in my plan. At least not in this turn. That might be a mistake, but I'm going to hold out hope that this clusterfuck will end up in our favor.
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You faceless-expanded on your position between me starting my post and posting it!

I am both impressed and yet unsurprised. You are a very fast ninja-fish-spider afterall.
 
BeepSmile said:
I dunno. Alze might be conflicted about it. I feel bad for the dude. Power = good, but Good really rubs him the wrong way from what it can tell.
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Azel shouldn't have an issue with that outcome. Those spells can be used by any creature capable of casting them, regardless of their actual alignment.

It could be useful to be able to pass Richard off as a paragon of Goodness, too, while we know at heart he's just a Lawful Neutral murderblender.
 
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Goldfish said:
Azel shouldn't have an issue with this at all. Those spells can be used by any creature capable of casting them, regardless of their actual alignment.

It could be useful to be able to pass Richard off as a paragon of Goodness, too, while we know at heart he's just a Lawful Neutral murderblender.
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The best part is that celestial spells in the armor have absolutely no chance of affecting his alignment thanks to Mindblank.

Have I mentioned how much I love that Mindblank? :D
 
Maybe dropping the mace was a hint?
She let Richard take it in the pre-rewrite update.

It's ghost touch and can permakill the Priest?
Maybe let Richard grab it, just in case. Securing our loot is not the worst idea anyway.
 
Artemis1992 said:
Maybe dropping the mace was a hint?
She let Richard take it in the pre-rewrite update.

It's ghost touch and can permakill the Priest?
Maybe let Richard grab it, just in case. Securing our loot is not the worst idea anyway.
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I don't want to dictate Richard's actions in this turn. We don't know enough about what's going on in his head between him and the armor spirit to really guess what we should do, IMO.

Even if the mace does have the Ghost Touch property, it probably wouldn't be able to permakill the ghost. We would need to deal with whatever is keeping it on the Material Plane, which could actually be the Deva. We'll find out once we destroy the ghosts. They take days to reform, so we'll have time to find out.
 
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Interlude CLXXIX: Caught in the Gears
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    • Caught in the Gears​

    Second Day of the Twelfth Month 292 AC

    Lanna Lannister, Lady of Castamere and sorceress of the Four Spheres, was ill at ease. She was always ill at ease when she rode through Lannisport these days, and not without reason. To many highborn and low she was not a hero, one who had returned with Valyrian Steel from the Smoking Sea itself, who had brought knowledge of wardings and sorcerous healing back to the western lands, she was 'the witch.' Foul were the names they called her and fouler still the tales they told: that she had ensnared Gerion with her magics and then done the same with Lord Lannister, that she traded in the souls of her students and even that her daughters were no mortal creatures at all but demons given flesh. She had tried to reason and she had tried rage. The Redcloaks had killed more than one septon at her command, and far more at that of the Lord of Casterly Rock, but it mattered little. Fear could dictate men's actions, but not their thoughts...

    Spells can, mistress,     her familiar spoke in her mind with the strange innocence of its kind. It was not foolish, far from it, but the subtleties of life among men escaped it entirely.

    The mage shook her head and kept her eyes on the path. She still remembered loosing Goldenmane, her mare since girlhood to a wide-eyed fanatic who had been willing to sell his life for hers. The man had been so lost to his own delusions that she could not even know if it had been merely some already cracked mind moved by one too many fiery sermons... or if something more sinister had driven him. The leering face of the assassin devil pressed itself into her mind... There were more of them out there, more than spying imps and a handful of reavers that had been butchering smallfolk, but lord Lannister was too content with having 'taught them to fear House Lannister,' fear him in truth. Even Gerion had not been able to...

    Her thought broke off abruptly as she spotted a Redcloack rushing down the path from the Rock and hailing her. "Your presence is expected at the keep, my lady," the man said, respect mixed with fear in his words. "In the lord's solar.... he has guests from foreign parts."

    He was one of those who knew... the poor bastard. Lanna herself was not wholly comfortable knowing that her goodbrother had almost been turned into a flesh-puppet by fish things from the depths, with only Gerion's timely intervention keeping him whole and sane. At least that had driven him to have a spell to ward the mind carved into his flesh so that it could not be torn from him as a ring might. This was likely just another group of hedge mages with an inflated notion of their own worth... Lanna reached for the handle of her favorite wand just the same.

    OOC: A little bit of the Lannister problems, so that you guys can see it's not all smooth sailing for your enemies.
     
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