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Then Hermetia can call us or use other assets to solve the issue as she sees fit.
Our goal is still to take the city within minimal loss of value, not to play any games here.
So we are right now and here talking to the right people.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Our goal is still to take the city within minimal loss of value, not to play any games here.
So we are right now and here talking to the right people.
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S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
I'm with Azel, this reeks of a setup.
The only question is who stands to gain from this?
I know we've been setting these jokers up for a hemp necktie but that was after we took over to make our standing more secure.
What do these chucklefucks have that is so valuable to keep, or at the very least to make a play for?
The worst I can see happening is someone making our eventual conquest more bloody and time consuming.
The only question is who stands to gain from this?
I know we've been setting these jokers up for a hemp necktie but that was after we took over to make our standing more secure.
What do these chucklefucks have that is so valuable to keep, or at the very least to make a play for?
The worst I can see happening is someone making our eventual conquest more bloody and time consuming.
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In three days, they might no longer be the right people, because their power structure was torn down while we had a lazy few days with them.
You are assuming that there is no other party trying to maneuver around these people here, despite blatant proof of that not being the case.
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@DragonParadox, since when are these people present in the manse we are currently in? Jarlar was already gone on the 8th and it is currently the 10th, meaning that the girls deadline is on the 13th.
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@DragonParadox, you used the term factotum here, but I'm unclear what you referred to. A construct? A bound outsider?
It's a position of sorts. Like a representative or servant of the magnate. Which I guess doesn't stop them from being a construct or outsider, but I doubt it in this case.
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Could just be a normal servant and the strangeness is how much silver is being paid to the servant of a grain magnate. Perhaps they are trying to engineer and/or mitigate a famine, we put plenty of effort into food security for the takeover of Tyrosh after all.
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More a gofer or more a high-ranking clerk with actual power?
What about this question?
The definitions I found are: 1)A trusted person who does stuff in someone's name and 2)Someone who does everything that needs to be done in a house or business. So it's someone of some actual power either way.
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Broad duties, means we'll* trusted. I think they are like butlers for things outside of the home.
*How often can I possibly say *we'll" that it automatically changes from "well"? This is getting annoying.
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Interlude in beta.
Since the 7th
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Huh. Funny that.
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
That's 7 days. And 7 princes were mentioned to us at the gate by a slightly confused woman raving about the numbers needing to be right.
I'm absolutely sure that this is nothing but a odd coincidence....
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Umm I don't know why but I am gonna ask. Is this a trap specifically designed for us? Because I am having a bad feeling here. Like I want to call a divination and if the answer comes out Mindblank then we will know for sure.
Interlude CCCXL: Fruits of Treachery
Fruits of Treachery
Tenth Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
"So this is why they call it a wine sink," Valaena's voice was soft, but the disdain in it was clear just the same. "Because all the shit in the wine sinks to the bottom here."
Once Maelor might have objected to the description reflexively, just from hearing some haughty highborn get talk down to honest common folk. As the trio entered the 'Broken Whistle,' however, he had to agree that if anyone honest had ever set foot here it must have been by sheer happenstance. The thick dingy windows glittered like a sailor's glass eye in the dim light of the fire pit, and the smell of bubbling stew was mingled with other far less wholesome things. "Strange place to find a priest," he noted instead, looking over the faces of the patrons for their quarry. They did not even have enough to scry by, but the local gangs were unlikely to have lied to them after the demonstration Argo gave them.
"Not so strange if you are looking for a broken man," Valaena said. "All the pious ones are either dead or fled. That leaves the priests who have had their faith cracked at the foundation."
"So the ones that didn't get dropped too many times on their heads when they were little," Bronn jested easily, though his gaze was sharp and his hand ever upon the hilt of his sword. Ever since the brief ugly skirmish with the temple guards that had forced them to take on new faces the sellsword had resented the priests of the Black Goat. Even he had been disgusted at the raiders they had put to the sword, former temple guardsmen hunting slaves to drag to hidden altars in their own cities.
"That's him I think," Valaena called, discreetly pointing out a man in faded robes that may have once been the dark grey of a Deacon of the Third Crescent. From the number of cups and mugs in front of him it was clear he was only trying to drink himself into oblivion but doing a fair job of it. This then was the man who had mere months ago been the third most powerful priest in Qohor.
"He does not look in a fit state for theological debate," Maelor mused, still speaking speaking the Andal Tongue.
"Maybe we should dunk his head in a bucket first," Bronn offered seemingly in all seriousness.
As they watched the former priest rose from his seat, surprisingly steady on his feet for his state, and sat down with a trio of rough looking men throwing bones.
"So, is anyone feeling lucky tonight?" Maelor asked, already moving in the direction of the table, smiling widely.
"No, as a matter of fact I'm feeling really unlucky," came Bronn's reply. "Winners are usually in a right mood to talk, even if it's only to brag about their luck."
Eight games and sixty marks lost later, the sellsword's prediction did indeed come true as the old priest practically latched on to his unexpected triumph as a drowning sailor to a rope.
Maelor stepped up as a Myrish spice trader and part-time scholar with a fascination for Qohor and its ways. He smiled in all the right places and asked only the most flattering of questions, the mingling of a hand free with coin and an interest of that sort baited and hooked the erstwhile priest just as he had hoped.
It would be quite a while yet before old Terguros revealed the inner workings of the somber black-roofed temples that dotted Qohor like mushrooms and longer still until he whispered secrets of the Black Goat and its worship, but Maelor did not mind at all. He still had other plans to check on while this one ripened.
OOC: The rolls from Qohor were about as middle of the road as possible, so I kind of struggled with them. Hopefully the interlude works to establish something about the atmosphere in the city and its factions.
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No, we are the 8th prince that messed up the numbers and then the lady of the house let us in anyway, since turning us away would just mess up the numbers too.
Currently re-reading all the updates since we arrived in Lys and putting together every scrap that might be relevant.
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I don't believe that this is personally a trap for us, since there's no way we could have been anticipated as well as this evidence.
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Glad to see the intrigue arc is engaging.
Good night guys see you tomorrow with more politics from the manse and elsewhere.
Good night guys see you tomorrow with more politics from the manse and elsewhere.
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Okay quick question which free city are we conquering and which one is diplomacy?
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@DragonParadox, one last question. Did Jeanna spot the solicitor who arranged all of this in the manse?
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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On an unrelated note, we have nine Valyrian Dragon eggs to distribute at the moment.
8. Dark purple with swirling cloud-like patterns -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
9. Copper dotted with specks of what almost seem like fresh blood -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
10. Ash grey fading to black towards the base -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
11. Forest green and amber -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
12. Burnt orange adorned with golden flames -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
13. Black with grey pasterns that almost recall skulls -- recovered from the city of Lyceos -- gained on the Second Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
14. Faded yellow with bright golden patches -- recovered from the city of Lyceos -- gained on the Second Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
15. Sapphire blue -- recovered from the city of Lyceos -- gained on the Second Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
16. Brown and green -- found in a cave in the Vale by Dalla -- gained on the Fourth Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
We got candidates?
8. Dark purple with swirling cloud-like patterns -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
9. Copper dotted with specks of what almost seem like fresh blood -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
10. Ash grey fading to black towards the base -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
11. Forest green and amber -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
12. Burnt orange adorned with golden flames -- recovered from the palace in Lyceos -- gained on the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC
13. Black with grey pasterns that almost recall skulls -- recovered from the city of Lyceos -- gained on the Second Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
14. Faded yellow with bright golden patches -- recovered from the city of Lyceos -- gained on the Second Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
15. Sapphire blue -- recovered from the city of Lyceos -- gained on the Second Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
16. Brown and green -- found in a cave in the Vale by Dalla -- gained on the Fourth Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
We got candidates?
Not after the first day.
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- United States
We're conquering Lys and Myr, and are in the process of intrigue with both with us taking Lys and Rhaella and Wyla taking Myr with Lady Phassen's help.
Maelor is in the process of poking at Qohor for intrigue and a future conquest target.
