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

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Duesal said:
According to the Plane Of Fire Loot II List we took 21,980 kgs of Cold Iron in the form of the doors. Mind you, this was our only significant supply of Cold Iron. Before that we literally just had the one Cold Iron Longsword that the Assassin Devil used to try to kill Fey!Renly.

Anyway, that's 48,457.605 lbs of Cold Iron in our inventory.
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So... How many METAL BAWKSES!!! are we hiding it in?
I think we need to do "magic numbers" here, when layering them, just in case.
Both the amount of layers and their thickness.
 
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Okay, let's see here...

[] Linger to speak to Lord Redwyne

Should we apologize for allowing a parlay to become so uncomfortable?

Offer him a sanctuary for Horas Redwyne should he be concerned that the Fey will renege on their half of the bargain now that the crown is denied to them? If so, we should make it clear that this offer comes with no strings attached.

Attempt to discover if he feels uncomfortable transporting Dusk Dancer back to the Reach? If so, we can solve that issue easily enough.

Learn how much official backing his seeking the crown in our waters had? Did Mace order it, approve it, or is he here of his own initiative?
 
Conveniently, the Maesters are probably doing a lot of research on how to split planes again, or ideas to "stem the tide of magic".
Stupid, but very convenient if we have more limited ambitions... Like fucking over the Fey!

Seriously though, the Feywild is stupidly permeable with the Prime Material and that's a problem is we ever have serious conflicts with Fey. They aren't enemies we want to be at war with.
 
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MTB said:
If we have the crown and they want it, it's not we going to them.
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Duesal said:
Agreed here. I wouldn't put it past them to slam us with time dilution if we ever set foot into the Feywild, especially in their place of power.
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And equally, it would be poor hosting to demand they come into our place of power. If nothing else, being aware of where the worlds align would be useful on multiple levels. If we're ever to enter the Feywild to parlay, then we will of course require Words given before doing so, to ensure safe passage and return. Those can be given, Fey can't lie, and I trust our resident constracts-master to make any oaths sworn ironclad.

Anyway, made my saving throw against mid-morning Christmas prep insanity. Will start working on that vote.
 
Snowfire said:
And equally, it would be poor hosting to demand they come into our place of power. If nothing else, being aware of where the worlds align would be useful on multiple levels. If we're ever to enter the Feywild to parlay, then we will of course require Words given before doing so, to ensure safe passage and return. Those can be given, Fey can't lie, and I trust our resident constracts-master to make any oaths sworn ironclad.

Anyway, made my saving throw against mid-morning Christmas prep insanity. Will start working on that vote.
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Getting an unbreakable promise of no trickery or messing with time while we're there would do a lot to ease my paranoia, yeah.
 
What are you all doing on Christmas day by the way, to be so busy?

Over here we get our family dinner and the presents and singing and all that stuff done on the 24th to have a relaxing christmas time afterwards, at most a lunch with the grandparents on the 25th&26th.
Much calmer this way, no idea where the madness comes from.
 
Artemis1992 said:
What are you all doing on Christmas day by the way, to be so busy?

Over here we get our family dinner and the presents and singing and all that stuff done on the 24th to have a relaxing christmas time afterwards, at most a lunch with the grandparents on the 25th&26th.
Much calmer this way, no idea where the madness comes from.
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UK and America have family dinner and presents and etc. on the 25th. A lot of people in the thread are from those nations, or ones that follow that trend.
 
Artemis1992 said:
What are you all doing on Christmas day by the way, to be so busy?

Over here we get our family dinner and the presents and singing and all that stuff done on the 24th to have a relaxing christmas time afterwards, at most a lunch with the grandparents on the 25th&26th.
Much calmer this way, no idea where the madness comes from.
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I've got to go over to my sister's house, spend time with my family, eat a meal, exchange gifts, pretend I would rather be there than anywhere else, and act like being in the presence of my idiot brother isn't a drain on my sanity.

If my pneumonia wasn't clearing up, I would have a good excuse to stay home. I'm still sick enough that I might be able to use the pneumonia card. I'll have to think about it.

I really shouldn't complain, though. My family (excluding my brother) isn't particularly dysfunctional or annoying and there won't be any children there (praise Yss!) to really make me crazy. They just stress me out.
 
[X] Plan What Price is Blood
-[X] Linger to speak with Lord Redwyne.
-[X] First, ensure that he understands that we hold no ill will to him or his in this matter, though we would suggest that any such expeditions the Reach seeks to mount into our waters have some warning to them, unless they come under flags of war. Clearing the air, ensuring that no grudges are held between us for this. This does matter. It also shows us a good guest, without apologising. Also can be used to poke at the level of backing by the Reach in this matter.
-[X] Given his reaction, delicately raise the question of if this mission was the price required by the Fae for returning his son to life. No need to mention it was one of them that killed him, that's clearly already present.
--[X] If asked why, simply explain that we have seen Fae to be quite vengeful if a bargain struck with them is not fulfilled, in ways far deeper than a mortal can be. This is entirely true. We can even give a few examples.
-[X] If retrieval of the crown appears to have been part of the deal, extend an offer of sanctuary to Horas, free of any cost, if this failure would cause the Fae to renege on their half of the bargain struck. Also idly mention how vast a price it seems to pay, compared to more mortal magics.
-[X] If it was not, idly mention how the price of more mortal magic is so much more steady than that of the Fae. If he seems curious, explain what it costs to return one recently dead to life.

Does this seem ok? I took a lot from you suggestions here, @Goldfish
 
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Azel said:
I don't know, hence me asking. There's a bunch of them I would like to give Lya.
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I'm not really a huge fan of Ioun stones. Most of them aren't worth the expense, since the effects they provide are all twice as expensive as a normal item due to them being slotless.

The exception to this would be the Orange Prism which provides an untyped +1 caster level bonus.

A Pale Green Prism isn't bad either, though still quite expensive for the effect it provides.

The greatest benefit of using Ioun stones, however, is if price is not a concern. Then you can purchase or craft whichever you want them and use the Pathfinder rules to implant them in your body. That allows you to benefit from the effects while keeping the Ioun stones hidden and opening up item slots you can use for other stuff.
Implanted Ioun Stones
Not all the secrets of the ioun stones lie with the Ancients. While the First Humans mastered the intrinsic powers of the stones, uncovering new attributes and binding them to devices, the Second Empire explored the interaction of ioun stones and the mind and body, and in time devised a means of implanting an ioun stone within the flesh. This process, originally believed to be irreversible, protected the ioun stone from harm and theft while still providing its full powers to the owner.

Binding a stone to a single owner is a lengthy process. To begin the ritual, the owner meditates with but a single stone in orbit around him. The body must be cleansed by fasting for a period of at least 3 days. If the fast is broken or interrupted, the process must begin anew. At the end of the fast, the owner makes a DC 20 Charisma check; taking 10 is not permitted on this check. Success indicates the stone has bonded with the owner, and may be implanted. Extending the fasting increases the chance of bonding with the stone, but the character may suffer the effects of starvation and thirst if he persists after several failures; the character gains a +1 circumstance bonus to the Charisma check for each full day past the third spent in fasting, to a maximum of +5. Failing the check means the owner must start over.

Once the owner establishes this bond with the stone, he can have it implanted in his body, which takes 1 hour. This requires a DC 25 Heal check (with a –5 penalty if the owner is the one performing the surgery) and a DC 25 Knowledge (arcana) check to succeed. Failure inflicts 1d6 points of Constitution damage and means the implantation process must start again. Success binds the stone on the surface of the owner's skin in a location of his choice (usually the head, arm, or hand), where it becomes one with the owner's flesh, deals him 1d2 points of Constitution damage (which he can heal naturally or with magic), and gives him the full benefits of the ioun stone. Once implanted, an ioun stone may not be sundered or targeted by effects and cannot be removed without the owner's consent while he is alive (barring complete removal of the implanted body part).

Rumors exist of stranger, darker magics that allow spellcasters to channel spells through their implanted stones, or that cause the stones to shatter if the owner is killed, but those with any actual knowledge of these procedures are dead, hidden, or not talking.
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Artemis1992 said:
What are you all doing on Christmas day by the way, to be so busy?

Over here we get our family dinner and the presents and singing and all that stuff done on the 24th to have a relaxing christmas time afterwards, at most a lunch with the grandparents on the 25th&26th.
Much calmer this way, no idea where the madness comes from.
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We have a close family day on the 24th, with the food we actually like and the presents we actually care about.
On the 25th we have a traditional (Food-wise a mix of French and Irish traditions - including the fucking Brussels Sprouts) Christmas dinner and we spend the afternoon with the wider family (those who live in France at least). I'm the eldest (and the only adult in the bunch - my parents had their kids a lot earlier than their siblings) so I spend the day babysitting a dozen or so young cousins. They're of course completely hyper from all the sugar, they behave like you would expect Algerian kids raised in France to behave (so the girls aren't too bad, but any boy under 12 is a tiny tyrant who wants to fight indoors, only responds to violence and has zero respect for me), and we're 12-15 people crammed into one small room because you can't have them annoying the adults and the house is tiny.

On the other hand dealing with that all afternoon means that I don't have to do any cooking in the morning, which is nice. And in the past when I wasn't single on Christmas day I could get out of all this, so hopefully I'll manage it again next year!
 
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