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

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[X] Duesal

Whatever. I've been against the last few votes anyway, but as long as Azel says that we aren't bankrupting ourselves then I can deal with some Kingly extravagance in spending.
 
Azel said:
Well, I recalled something along the lines of 200-300 IM a month.

Let's just give everyone a raise to 100 IM month, giving us 5,500 IM per month to pay them all.

Neat and clean.
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Works for me.
TalonofAnathrax said:
[X] Duesal

Whatever. I've been against the last few votes anyway, but as long as Azel says that we aren't bankrupting ourselves then I can deal with some Kingly extravagance in spending.
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We can go after the silver mines next turn if we're in desperate need of a cash influx, though I doubt it'll ever come to that with all the things we'll be confiscating in Lys.
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
OMAKE (I really hope that this never becomes canon) Crossover between ASWAH and Stellaris:

Lieutenant Lefebvre slipped the straw into his pocket. Of course, it was easily short enough to fit.
Now all he had to do was knock on the Commodore's private quarters and deliver yet another dose of bad news. Fun.
He squared his shoulders and had the dumb AI in his rank pin ask for entry.

The door hissed open. Inside, a dark-haired man was getting up, quickly crossing the room.

"Commodore Ellison?" said the Lieutenant. "Sorry to disturb you in your off-hours, but there's been a proximity alert we don't have the authority to deal with."
Ellison swore.
"It's the Dragon-man again, isn't it? What's he done now?"
Poor Lefebvre nodded.
"Spaceflight, sir. Psy-powered. Still no sign he can detect us. But he is coming up, and the gunnery wants to confirm previous orders to fire on intruders."
"Belay that." The Commodore sighed. "We're not fighting the natives yet. Did they respond to hails?"
"I don't--" "No, I'll just go to the bridge myself," interrupted the Commodore. "Thank you".

As Commodore Ellison strode towards the bridge, Lefebvre tried to suppress a relieved sigh. Stress hadn't been good to the ship's commander, and so he hadn't been good to the last sucker who'd had to bring him this kind of bad news. After androids and genetic engineering, the locals had somehow discovered space travel.

Arriving on the bridge, Commodore Ellison repeated his last orders and took stock of the situation.
The usual system summary hologram had the planets, the defense stations, their vessel - and now another shape setting out into the void, towards the moon of the inhabited world. He had his optical display emphasize the new vessel's notes, but they were mostly unknowns. Unknown propulsion systems, unknown composition, unknown armaments, unknown communication systems, unknown class... At least it was a sign the local Teleportation methods had limits. And though they hadn't responded to hails, it wasn't coming this way at all.
Well then.

"A moment of your time please?"
He gestured to a woman in a midnight blue uniform just like his, but without the star. She followed him off the bridge.
For years she'd been a trustworthy second-in command. But today she was a suspect, like everybody else.
He gave an exhausted sigh.
"Krazitz... Any new internal reports?"
"Investigations are almost finished. Operations have handed everything over." Her expression twisted. "Nothing. All agents accounted for and polygraphed, all communications reviewed. No sign of the mole. It must be in the system defense stations somehow."
"They certainly can't communicate with anyone planetside." He grit his teeth. "We must have a mole. It's the only explanation for the Targaryen advances so far. Maybe he really can run a kingdom on psy-powered individuals, but improved smithing, androids, and now space travel certainly aren't ideas native to this culture. Someone has to be feeding him knowledge. Could it be the Maesters? A loyalist on their side?"
She gave a warning look to an ensign passing through the corridor. Once she'd hurried past, Krazitz answered. "Of course not. You know as well as I do that Investigations did a full sweep of their tower first thing. Everyone involved is loyal, and information security and psy-defences are literally all they're good at - at least at home. Spies and drones are still having trouble getting into the pocket dimension tower-school, of course. And they hate Viserys more than anyone - they've asked us to bomb his islands back to the stone age again this morning."
He chuckled. "Same spiel as usual?"
"Of course. Inborn predisposition to madness and megalomania, uncontrolled psy-power, dangerous pacts with Hell..." She sniffed in exaggerated disdain. "We've proven quite conclusively that their summons are just psychic constructs, but will they believe us? Oh no, moldy records written to appease illiterate priests must be more trustworthy than our researchers. And spaceships must be magic!"
They shared a laugh at the expense of the locals for a moment, but the situation was too sobering for it to last.

"Ellison, there's only one explanation left. I know it's crazy, but..."
"We'll be needing better psychic shielding. He may have the range to read out minds from across a start system, but we have technology. We'll figure out a countermeasure soon, I'm sure of it. I'll be putting more resources into this project now."
She nodded. "It can wait an hour until you're back on shift, Jake. We need a properly rested commander to untangle all this safely." She slipped back into full professionalism. She was on the clock, after all. "Any new orders before I return to my post, sir?"
There was a long pause. And then the exhausted Commodore stood taller, and in his gaze was the confidence that had gotten them through so many bad spots before.
"I'll be adjusting the plan again tomorrow. This psy resurgence has been interesting to study, but it's been too disruptive to our operations. Every month a new major psychic entity turns up in some temple, and the odds of seeing the main threats kill each other off are worsening. I'm not saying we'll actually go for an orbital bombardment - that unlikely to kill the more dangerous psychics around, and having teleporting etheral assassins coming after our command staff seems unpleasant - but don't put more resources into our current ground-based operations for now. Those plans are a dead end based on incomplete information, and the situation is too chaotic for us to depend on current local contacts."
Her composure broke, and she looked visibly shocked. He pressed on.
"We'll be making direct contact, and damn the subtle approach. High Command will understand, and the scientists will be too fascinated by what the specimens can do to complain too much about our methods."

OOC: Viserys has no idea about any of this. The poor space age civilisation wasn't expecting to find a D&D setting though, and it's pretty damn confused about things.
I may continue this if anyone is interested. Either field agents encountering "spontaneous psychic effects" for the first time, or a direct meeting between Viserys and these "extraplanar invaders".
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This is really neat, dude. Please continue it?
 
"So let me get this straight."

"Ah..."

"You're here to uplift and assimilate what you regard as a "primitive civilization" with a savage uncultured society and some "interestingly advanced psychic manifiestation related techniques" but little more.

"You're not wrong."

Viserys: "Good luck."
 
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TalonofAnathrax said:
[X] Duesal

Whatever. I've been against the last few votes anyway, but as long as Azel says that we aren't bankrupting ourselves then I can deal with some Kingly extravagance in spending.
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I'm keeping a close eye on that, but with Striking Coin, we are freeing up no less then 12 million IM thaf are currently frozen. And the Planar Train Station will start a lovely flow of planar currency into our coffers.
 
@Goldfish so I was thinking that we should be getting another Commune with Nature item. Since we have wanted to do the whole commune and find resources straight in our realm but we haven't gotten around to it due to VIserys time being important. So my thought is that we get another item and have another minion figure this out for us. No Viserys time needed. Would it be cost effective?
 
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Azel said:
Well, I recalled something along the lines of 200-300 IM a month.

Let's just give everyone a raise to 100 IM month, giving us 5,500 IM per month to pay them all.

Neat and clean.
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Sounds good.

That should put them in the "owns a small but succesful business" income range, yeah?

Let's say that, IC, the Journeyman make twice as much as the apprentice and the Masters make three times that, and it averages to 100 IM per crafter?
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
@Goldfish so I was thinking that we should be getting another Commune with Nature item. Since we have wanted to do the whole commune and find resources straight in our realm but we haven't gotten around to it due to VIserys time being important. So my thought is that we get another item and have another minion figure this out for us. No Viserys time needed. Would it be cost effective?
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It would cost 16,200 IM to commission one of those. Given the kinds of money we are spending on this visit, that isn't unreasonable.

Or we can have one our new Master enchanters work on it, get it done by sometime next month, and only pay 8,100 IM for it. Considering the time involved in enchanting something so expensive, however, I would prefer to just commission it.
 
Goldfish said:
It would cost 16,200 IM to commission one of those. Given the kinds of money we are spending on this visit, that isn't unreasonable.

Or we can have one our new Master enchanters work on it, get it done by sometime next month, and only pay 8,100 IM for it. Considering the time involved in enchanting something so expensive, however, I would prefer to just commission it.
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40.5 days of enchanting. Damn.
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
Jesus why that long? Thats ridiculous. I get its a fifth level spell but holy shit. So we are commissioning this correct?
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It's 200 IM of enchanting done per day as a standard rule for everyone. That's what handicapped us earlier in the quest with Lya stuck crafting every day.

So this is 8,100 IM in crafting materials when you make it yourself? 200 IM per day leaves you 40.5 days of crafting.

I don't think it's unreasonable to commission it, but the timing might be a bit off. I already feel a bit uncomfortable with how much we're spending before a double conquest even if I feel the things we're buying are all justified. Make sure not to forget about this and we'll see about getting it next month?
 
Duesal said:
It's 200 IM of enchanting done per day as a standard rule for everyone. That's what handicapped us earlier in the quest with Lya stuck crafting every day.

So this is 8,100 IM in crafting materials when you make it yourself? 200 IM per day leaves you 40.5 days of crafting.

I don't think it's unreasonable to commission it, but the timing might be a bit off. I already feel a bit uncomfortable with how much we're spending before a double conquest even if I feel the things we're buying are all justified. Make sure not to forget about this and we'll see about getting it next month?
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Yeah I can live with that. The resource searching can wait. I imagine it will be more useful next month anyway due to the Disputed lands not really being developed what with the whole "disputed" thing.
 
Buy it this month. We are within budget.

@Goldfish, I would like to set the master enchanters on constructs unless you have something urgent. A bunch of Wyrmlings for the Legion and the Inquisition. Bunch of greater ravens for surveillance.
 
If we're in budget, is there anything else on the wish list that we could just straight up commission and have next month?

Seeing as how all the crafters we just hired were for engineering projects.
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
Yeah I can live with that. The resource searching can wait. I imagine it will be more useful next month anyway due to the Disputed lands not really being developed what with the whole "disputed" thing.
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Well, we're within budget, so no reason not to get it.

@Goldfish, how many times per day is that Commune with Nature item?

EDIT: Current purchase is now at 577,200 IM, btw.
 
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Azel said:
Buy it this month. We are within budget.

@Goldfish, I would like to set the master enchanters on constructs unless you have something urgent. A bunch of Wyrmlings for the Legion and the Inquisition. Bunch of greater ravens for surveillance.
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That's what I was thinking as well, for at least one of them. The discount we get on intelligent Constructs will help a lot.

I want one of them working on things we've been unable to craft for lack of time available from Lya. Handy Haversacks, Bags of Holding, etc.
Duesal said:
Well, we're within budget, so no reason not to get it.

@Goldfish, how many times per day is that Commune with Nature item?

EDIT: Current purchase is now at 577,200 IM, btw.
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It's not limited to charges per day. Instead it's Command activated, meaning it can be used repeatedly. The limiting factor will be casting time, which is 10 minutes, and travel distance needed to reach a new area.

@DragonParadox Do any of the new crafters have any crafting discount feats, such as Extraordinary Artisan or Magical Artisan? And do any of them have the Scribe Scroll feat?
 
Crake said:
If we're in budget, is there anything else on the wish list that we could just straight up commission and have next month?

Seeing as how all the crafters we just hired were for engineering projects.
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I repeat. This is not true. While I do want to throw them at some engineering projects, I have no intention of monopolizing their time.
 
BTW, since the three Master Enchanters are each 10th level and have Craft Construct, they should each have a Dedicated Wright. That's like getting six Crafters for the price of three.

Is that all right, @DragonParadox?
 
Goldfish said:
BTW, since the three Master Enchanters are each 10th level and have Craft Construct, they should each have a Dedicated Wright. That's like getting six Crafters for the price of three.

Is that all right, @DragonParadox?
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*rolls for it*

They all accepted so yes

Vote count
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Dec 7, 2018 at 10:23 AM, finished with 63 posts and 8 votes.
  • [X] Purchase
    -[X] 10 +1 Soulfire Mithral Bracers (Ser Richard, Waymar, Garin, Vee, Tyene, Xor, Maelor, Malarys, Rina, Bloom) -- 5,000 IM each, 50,000 IM total
    -[X] 3 Scrolls of Gate -- ??? IM
    -[X] 1 Scroll of Undead Anatomy II -- ??? IM
    -[X] 4 Scrolls of Create Greater Demiplane — ??? IM
    -[X] 1 Scroll of Undead Anatomy III -- ??? IM
    -[X] 3 Mind Blank items -- 22,000 IM each, 66,000 IM total
    -[X] Permanency Scrolls (one 500 XP scrolls, two 2,000 XP scrolls) -- 45,000 IM
    -[X] 400,000 IM of crafting materials
    -[X] Commune with Nature item (at will, 10 min. cooldown time) -- 16,200 IM
    -[X] GRAND TOTAL: 577,200 IM (not including scroll costs)
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