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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] Azel
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[X] Azel
Goldfish
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I was just thinking about all of the False Raven Constructs we are crafting this turn, wondering where to put them. I'm sure we'll have plenty of uses for them between assigning them to the Legion, the Inquisition, and our other allies.
What if we set some aside to troll Westeros? Specifically, we could assign a few small flocks to interdict raven-based communication between certain individuals.
They could easily bring down messenger ravens, which are still the predominant form of non-magical communication. Magical means of long distance communication are going to be extremely rare and limited to just a few powerful families or institutions.
Rather than a concerted effort to block all raven messages, or to interfere with particular targets, we could instead do this randomly for short periods of time before relocating the False Ravens. It shouldn't take long to seriously undermine the trust the average member of the aristocracy has in the reliability of their ravens and the Maesters who handle them.
What if we set some aside to troll Westeros? Specifically, we could assign a few small flocks to interdict raven-based communication between certain individuals.
They could easily bring down messenger ravens, which are still the predominant form of non-magical communication. Magical means of long distance communication are going to be extremely rare and limited to just a few powerful families or institutions.
Rather than a concerted effort to block all raven messages, or to interfere with particular targets, we could instead do this randomly for short periods of time before relocating the False Ravens. It shouldn't take long to seriously undermine the trust the average member of the aristocracy has in the reliability of their ravens and the Maesters who handle them.
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"Funny" idea: Send all of them to Lannisport and tell them to shit all over it while in flight.
So the Westerlands feel like King's Landing does
So the Westerlands feel like King's Landing does
Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
Now this, this is good tactical thinking.
This however, is simply good taste."Funny" idea: Send all of them to Lannisport and tell them to shit all over it while in flight.
So the Westerlands feel like King's Landing does
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- United States
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- United States
Bloodraven has you beat to it. Best not to interfere there unless we're ready to mess with everyone and muddle his plans. If it weren't for that it would be a great idea, but to my understanding a big part of his manipulations depend on that.
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[X] Azel
Probably best to coordinate with Bloodraven first, but the idea certainly has merit as far as Viserys can see IC.
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There are things we are doing in bed that have nothing to do with sleeping. Ask Lya.
Vote closed.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Tax reports and balance sheets won't sort themselves.
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- France
You're forgetting spell research! And random encounters!
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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@Everyone
I just remembered that the Uncloaking happens on the Twenty Eighth Day of the Seventh month. Which means we might be able to celebrate our conquest of Lys in Braavos at the end of this month, making up for having to miss 292's courtesy of the Usurper and Jon Arryn.
I just remembered that the Uncloaking happens on the Twenty Eighth Day of the Seventh month. Which means we might be able to celebrate our conquest of Lys in Braavos at the end of this month, making up for having to miss 292's courtesy of the Usurper and Jon Arryn.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
First we should drop a Mirage Arcana to alter the appearance of the entire venue, then we start casting Veils on the party goers. The big question is what we should make the scenery and people look like?
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Did you just write "This" as a whole paragraph?
More seriously, I like the idea of a scene of broken chains and weirwood trees emerging from Lys the lovely and bringing everyone food and drink, as well as casting down the masters.
Part MMCDLXXXV: Spinning Gilded Webs
Spinning Gilded Webs
Tenth Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC
To his credit Jarlar's expression does not shift an inch when he hears a voice in his mind, not even when that voice recounts that there is a plot against the guests. The stream of chatter continues with scarce a hitch even as the two of you have your true conversation covertly. However, his mental resilience is not without its limits. Your congratulations over his deft, if inconvenient, handling of Aedon's army is met with a yawning gulf of silence as he works through your likely identity.
"I thought you would be taller..." Varys relays the jests with obvious amusement, and a measure of approval you find yourself somewhat reluctantly echoing.
"That can be arranged, as can breathing fire, though it would be rather hard to mask," you reply even as you are outwardly discussing the virtues of flowers and songbirds that trill above unknowing and uncaring of the troubles and plots of humankind.
Unfortunately, while Jarlar readily agrees to stay close to Mereth for his own protection, he has no grand revelations of House Bartaris to share. He explains that they are an old line, though one that has always grown in the shadow of grander ambitions: not warriors, adventurers, or lawmakers, but gardeners, led through the years by slow and steady hands, more concerned with keeping that which they already hold than gaining more. It was thus with no small measure of surprise that Lys greeted their intervention in the final destruction of House Rogare. A Bartaris loan was generally seen as a solid and safe bet, the House's dislike to public spectacle making them historically far more likely to settle for a slow repayment over a messy claim. "The story I most heard is that the old lord was pressured into it by the other creditors, though that always rang hollow to my ear..."
The banker continues recounting how he had wooed Bartaris interests to his side by helping to bankrupt several of their neighbors through manipulating the increasingly volatile slave market. It had not before occurred to you that the economic turmoil you had thrown Lys into would be so ripe for speculation, but listening to Jarlar's accounts of his doings you realize that the wild rumors coming out of Sorcerer's Deep, be they true or false, were an ideal breeding ground for such manipulation. Spread the tale that the Dragon was raiding outlying estates one day and that he had been slain the next and the fears and hopes of increasingly desperate traders could be turned into a great deal of profit, especially when accounting for all the gold he had gained from 'Myrish investors'. Without a moment's hesitation he explain that of course he had no intention to actually dive deeper into a plot against you. "What fool would try to fight a dragon with an army?" he finishes. "One could as soon send gnats to cast an eagle from the sky."
Given his successful attempt to halt that very army in its tracks, you are inclined to believe this is truth and not hasty flattery. Alas Jarlar cannot answer the other mystery you came here to solve. He is firm in his denial of having sent a Sorrowful Man to slay Aedon. "After all, the next commander might be less of a vainglorious cretin." It is a struggle not to laugh as Varys sends the thought in a bone-dry hiss.
However, having explained all he knows, the Lyseni magister then begins asking questions of his own about this plot you had discovered within the manse. Jarlar Samel is not a man content to stumble about with his eyes closed on the strength of your word.
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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[X] Jarlar and his fellow guests appear to have become unwitting participants in a ritual of unknown purpose or power, one which we have reason to believe has been performed regularly over the past several centuries. Now we need to somehow xtricate Jarlar and the other guests from the ritual without prematurely triggering it or causing them irreparable harm.
Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
Alright that cinches it for me, he's
It's honestly refreshing to talk to a man that can actually find his ass with both hands and a visual diagram, and also quite sad that our bar for that is this pathetically low.