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

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DragonParadox said:
I'm going to be more conservative here. It's one thing to give you an ability that can mimic wish with no XP cost, but wish and Miracle is pushing it.
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Actually, Wild Arcana is already more powerful then Wish on a sufficiently strong character, as it allows also to cast arbitrary 9th level spells if you can cast at least one 9th level from class progression. Wish only allows to cast 8th level spells and that only at high XP cost.

Which neatly illustrates that Mythic ranks are not designed to be gained after level 20, but already early on, as the power of Mythic abilities keeps escalating with growing class level.
 
Personally, I'm in favor of just letting Wild Arcane duplicate Cleric spells. That ruling just makes planning a bit more complicated and let's be honest, both us and DP will constantly forget about it anyway.
 
Azel said:
Personally, I'm in favor of just letting Wild Arcane duplicate Cleric spells. That ruling just makes planning a bit more complicated and let's be honest, both us and DP will constantly forget about it anyway.
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Speak for yourself. My pedantry is too powerful to be overcome so easily.
 
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Part MMDXLV: Devils' Due
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    • Devils' Due ​

    Twenty-Ninth Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC

    The next day begins with an unpleasant realization—the mightiest of the baatezu present upon this realm did not tell the Uniila their true names, though she thought they had. The assassin devil supposedly named Nero'th does not come to your call and divining the reason reveled that rather than resisting the call of the spell he was never imperiled by it. Still, that is not to say all of your callings are fruitless. Another seven Furies choose service over death, and you have the opportunity to meet an old and formerly pestiferous acquaintance, the Harvester Devil who had so vexed you in White Harbor as he was bound by the power of his name so he must come.

    Gained 7 Veteran Furies

    You allow yourself the briefest moment to bask in the pleasure of seeing the sly smile slip off his features into an expression of all-too-knowing dread. Though you and Lya are not of necessity using the Snare for the task of capturing devils still present upon this world, between the two of you there is no chance for the devils to escape. Before his hand had even reached halfway into the folds of his robe, seeking some talisman or weapon, he was already reduced to smoke bound in glass. In addition to the Pleasure Devils that had escaped you so deftly in the past, a trio of Gilded Devils soon join him, only one of which is called from Westeros...

    Captured 2 Pleasure Devils, 1 Silver-Clad Pleasure Devil

    Captured 1 Harvester Devil

    Captured 3 Gilded Devils

    "Yi Ti? We drew him from Yi Ti?" Lya looks at your most recent captive with renewed interest. "I wonder how they are handling the resurgence of magic."

    "You could always ask them," you reply.

    "I'm not sure I'd want a devil's eye view to be my first perspective on a foreign land," she answers with a uncertain tilt of the head.

    "So you would not trust say, Mereth's judgement?" Dany probes, leaning back in her seat to sip a few mouthfuls of chilled tea.

    "That's different, she is..." Lya hesitates a moment, then shakes her head. "I take your point. The only real difference between Mereth as she was a few months back and these ones is that she came to be on our side."

    "Indeed, not that that means I am in any hurry to hire on more subtle and deceptive baatezu..." The very thought of trying to find some productive use for the boundless greed of a Gilded Devil is enough to threaten a headache.

    "Alright... time for the last one," you announce.

    "The one we are not going to sacrifice to our fel gods," Dany giggles. "I wonder what all those rumor mongers who speak of diabolism and blood sacrifices would say if they knew both those things are true, but that we sacrifice devils."

    ***​

    The champion of Bel is among that kindred of Osyluth, Bone Devils, Hell's inquisitors and torturers, most feared by their fellow fiends both on the field of battle and off it. This particular fiend has a long blackened gash running from the corner of his left eye to his jagged-toothed jaw, the mark of some curse he could not fully heal or perhaps did not wish to and kept instead as a mark of honor. He looks around first at the Snare with eyes that see beneath the stone, then at you, Dany, and Lya standing before him. "Well..." he rasps. "Talk if you are going to talk, fight if you're going to fight."

    "We possess information your lord might have use for with regards to the schemes of the Master of Minauros. He would endanger the course of the War in his hubris," you begin, speaking as bluntly as you can.

    "And you would share this from the kindness of your heart?" the devil scoffs.

    "I would share this for it will do harm onto the Lord of the Third who is my foe also," you answer in perfect truth.

    "Perhaps that is so, mortal. Speak," he all-but-commands.

    So indeed you do before sending him on his way with the names of his foes and the substance of their treachery known to him and soon to the Lord of the First also.

    Once the fiend has departed, Dany muses: "Do you think he realized who and what we were?"

    "I do not think he would have cared one way or another," you answer, honestly relieved that you had found a servant of Bel so utterly incurious as to your nature.

    What do you do next?

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    OOC: You rolled 97 on a d100 for how dangerous and/or tricky Bel's envoy would be, so you were able to breeze through the social combat and not worry about actual combat.
     
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    • Snowfire said:
    *considers that SR: No, no save spells exist*
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    As Harry explained it, DF magic allows to shape reality, but once shaped it's real. So, magic fire is real fire, started (and given form and direction) by magic. If that magic fails because of SR, you still get the plasma in the face. Or the 3K liquid nitrogen.
     
    Might want to update the description then

    EDIT: i was referring to the arcana description
     
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    Ah, good stuff. I liked this chapter a lot! Nice to see us meddle in the plots of another without actually having to put in much effort ourselves!
    Of course we'll probably never learn what comes up this though :/ Ah well.
    And will we be learning about Yi-Ti in a future rumor post then?
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Devils' Due ​

    Twenty-Ninth Day of the Seventh Month 293 AC

    The next day begins with an unpleasant realization,the mightiest of the baatezu present upon this realm did not tell the Uniia their true names, though she thought they had. The assassin devil supposedly named Nero'th does not come to your call and divining the reason reveled that rather than resisting the call of the spell he was never imperiled by it. Still that is not to say all of your callings are fruitless. Another seven furies choose service over death and you have the opportunity to meet an old an formerly pestiferous acquaintance, the harvester devil who ahd so vexed you in White Harbor as he was bound by the power of his name so he must come.

    Gained 7 Veteran Furies

    You allow yourself the briefest moment to bask in the pleasure of seeing the sly smile slip off his features into an expression of all-too-knowing dread. Though you and Lya are not of necessity using the Snare for the task of capturing devils still present upon this world between the two of you there is no chance for the devils to escape. Beforehis hand had even reached halfway into the folds of his robe seeking some talisman or weapon he was already reduced to smoke bound in glass. A trio of Gilded devils soon join him, only one of which is called from Westeros...

    Captured 1 Harvester Devil

    Captured 3 Gilded Devils

    "Yi Ti? We drew him form Yi Ti" Lya looks at your most recent captive with renewed interest. "I wonder how they are handling the resurgence of magic."

    "You could always ask them," you reply.

    "I'm not sure I'd want a devil's eye view to be my first perspective on a foreign land," she answers with a uncertain tilt of the head.

    "So you would not trust say Mereth's judgement?" Dany probes leaning back in her seat to slip a few mouthfuls of chilled tea.

    "That's different she is..." Lya hesitates a moment than shakes her head. "I take your point. The only real difference between Mereth as she was a few months back and these ones is that she came to be on our side."

    "Indeed, not that that means I am in any hurry to hire on more subtle and deceptive Baatezu..." the very thought of trying to find some productive use for the boundless greed of a gilded devil is enough to threaten a headache.

    "Alright... time for the last one," you announce.

    "The one we are not going to sacrifice to our fel gods." Dany giggles. "i wonder what all those tumor mongers who speak of diabolism and blood sacrifices would say if they knew both those things are true, but that we sacrifice the devils."

    ***​

    The champion of Bel is among that kindred of Osyluth, Bone Devils, Hell's inquisitors and torturers, most feared by their fellow fiends both on the field of battle and off it. This particular fiend has a long blackened gash running from the corner of his left eye to his jagged-toothed jaw, the mark of some curse he could not fully heal or perhaps did not wish to and kept instead as mark of honor. He looks around firs tat the Snare with eyes that see beneath the stone then at you Dany and Lya sanding before him. "Well..." he rasps. "Talk if you are going to talk fight if you're going to fight."

    "We posses information your lord might have use for with regards to the schemes of the master of Minauros. He would endanger the course of the War in his hubris," you begin speaking as bluntly as you can.

    "And you would share this from the kindness of your heart?" the devil scoffs.

    "I would share this for it will do harm onto the Lord of the Third who is my foe also," you answer in perfect truth.

    "Perhaps that is so mortal. Speak," he all-but-commands.

    So indeed you do before sending him on his way with the names of his foes and the substance of their treachery known to him and soon to the Lord of the First also.

    Once the fiend has departed Dany muses: "Do you think he realized who and what we were?"

    "I do not think he would have cared one way or another," you answer honestly relieved that you had found a servant of Bel so utterly incurious as to your nature.

    What do you do next?

    [] Write in

    OOC: You rolled 97 on a d100 for how dangerous and/or tricky Bel's envoy would be, so you were able to breeze though the social combat and not worry about actual combat.
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    Was that one of Bel's favored Lieutenants? So favored because he's utterly practical and also utterly focused on the Blood War?

    I personally think it would be the case since he has to have at least a few reliable people specifically for tasks that require sincere straight forwardness over political gain which many devils who aren't actually focusing on their original charge seem to be obsessed with.

    @DragonParadox the reason we're so easily getting Furies is because they are disgusted with the direction Hell has turned toward over long millennia, right? The Blood War is effectively a means of control at this point. In fact one could posit the cardinal rule of Baator is no longer perfect Order but instead corrupt tyranny, which is far and away from what the Fallen originally desired, since such corruption opens gaping wounds which can be exploited by... well, people like us.
     
    Well.

    We were unlucky with some rolls here, it seems.

    @DragonParadox, does this meager summoning means that there were no other leaders or commanders for us to catch from the names available, nor any meatshields?

    Or that we didn't even try to summon lower-rank devils here, like those we know from questioning Tiamat clerics, or those Devils you originally rolled for us getting the first time we did that, before a retcon?

    Getting Furies was the last priority after summoning every other devil on PM we can get here :/
     
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    @DragonParadox the reason we're so easily getting Furies is because they are disgusted with the direction Hell has turned toward over long millennia, right? The Blood War is effectively a means of control at this point. In fact one could posit the cardinal rule of Baator is no longer perfect Order but instead corrupt tyranny, which is far and away from what the Fallen originally desired, since such corruption opens gaping wounds which can be exploited by... well, people like us.
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    Pretty much yeah, though you would find it much harder to steal them from a more war-like archduke.
     
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