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

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tarrangar said:
Outdated? The comic still updates weekly, or almost weekly at least, the author has had some health problems and so occasionally miss an update
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Hey, Myspace is still around! And 95 year-olds who've gone senile and need help remembering their own names can (and often do) usually still vote in most modern democracies! Outdated things don't all stop and vanish, you know.
:D
 
Azel said:
We have a Fungus Forge...
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Feel free to make Goblins. I'll feel free to start a wightpocalypse in KL. Sounds fair?

Goblins do best as tragic figures, as darkly comedic ones you have to pity, or as stupid evil enemies. None of those things are needed in this setting. Indeed, creating them is immoral, evil and stupid.
 
Along with Embra do we want to invite any other people from other Planes to our festival? Sure it will be quite humble and mundane by their standards but sure it would be an interesting experience to them at the very least.
 
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Part MMDLXXII: A Shadow Upon the South
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    • A Shadow Upon the South ​

    Twelfth Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC

    "The two of you are close enough to my sister to know that I certainly did not like to involve her in these matters at her age. She had no choice back then, for the world didn't want to leave her out of it, but you two have," you answer to test their resolve.

    "We all have our choices, to do evil, good, or simply to do nothing," Ysilla replies slowly, obviously reciting a long considered reasoning. "Kyla and me... we want to do the right thing, and the first part of that is not sitting around for the grass to grow between your toes."

    This was a lot easier with Valaena. She at least has a squires' years, but eight is far too young to be facing the darkness of the world weapon in hand, they have no dragon dreams to arm and armor them against the horrors they may face.

    Yet even lord Royce asked you to teach his daughter to protect herself and teaching is what these two need. "Fine then, but I will not give you any work without ensuring that you are ready for it. Glyra has been tasked to provide some fun and games during the upcoming festival in the cities of the realm. You will go with her and work under her. I will leave it up to her what you two will be doing and I will read her report on your performance afterwards." Here you let a brief silence fall and shake your head. "Rest assured that reading Glyras' chicken scratch, delivered on a torn grain sack, is a great sacrifice I make for the two of you."

    "I didn't know Glyra could write," Kyla interjects. "What kind of stuff do you think she will have us doing?"

    "I would not dare to guess the mind of a fey with any surety, much less that one. The best I can say is that it will probably be entertaining... for her at least." Here you pause again, but the two are still straight-backed and resolute as they look up at you. Thus you continue: "If her assessment is positive, you will train with the Inquisition here in the Deep for a while. This is in addition to your other studies and you will attend while disguised. Should you be found out or the trainers deem you unready for the work, we will table this until you have grown some more. Is that acceptable?"

    "Yes, Your Grace," they answer almost at once. Twin smiles burst onto their features, eyes glinting with joy such that you have to take a moment to strangle back the urge to tell them you've changed your mind. Likely enough if you had chanced upon a looking glass in those first hectic weeks and months in Braavos you might have seen some shadow of that lighthearted excitement in your own gaze before setting out.

    As they leave you make a mental note to speak to the Inquisition Commissar in the Deep, to make it clear that you are expecting detailed reports and no molly-coddling. They will have to earn their approval, more so then any other recruit. The trainers are to pressure them both physically and mentally, to make sure that they can actually do this. You would rather deal with their disappointment at being flunked out of the course then the results of them risking their lives for playing at being heroes.

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    Twelfth Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC

    By the time the influx of coin for Golden Fields has all been accounted for a little more than a third of the company stocks had passed out of your hands in exchange for lands that will give it a much appreciated help in its primary purpose of helping to fill the old Rhoynar lands and make them prosperous.

    Golden Fields Size increased by 1

    35% of Golden Fields Stock sold

    As morning gives way to noon you briefly consider eating, but with Dany and your mother out of the keep and the remainder of your friends likely as engrossed in their own projects as you are you decide to instead take the opportunity to forge more spellsteel as the stocks are dwindling and you have need great need of them for your many projects.

    Gained 800 lb of Valyrian steel

    Lost 1 Gargantuan Fiendish spider

    It later seems almost as though perhaps the creatures' death-screech had summoned grim news from the south for Wyla finds you with grim tidings. She had left a far-speaking stone with her steward in Naath, mostly with a mind to reporting any problems in raising the Scholarum research outpost. However, while work on the project continues apace it is becoming increasingly clear that some new horror had come to Naath.

    Establish Scholarium Outpost (Naath) Progress: 16/20

    "Whatever this thing is it comes at night and it can likely fly, judging from the lack of a trail to follow," Wyla begins her account. "Dozens of goats had been found savaged in their pens but the news did not make it past the headmen until children started going missing, vanished from their beds. When I tried scrying them the spell was stillborn."

    "So then they are dead," you sigh. So much for the safe world you were promising Kyla and Ysilla. "Are there any accounts of this thing?"

    "Nothing more tangible than hearsay and rumor, and of course rumor being what it is tales of evil magic are beginning to spread." Wyla grimaces. You can read a shadow of guilt mixed in with the frustration. It was not so long ago that she had been a blood-drinking hunter of the night. True she had fed on raiders over the locals but mostly from simple practicality.

    "Are there any local legends about such a thing?" you ask without much hope. It would have been one of the first things you would have checked and you can hardly image Wyla not asking.

    "Nothing," she confirms. "I asked the elders in all the villages and no one had an answer. Perhaps it is a newcomer from the south, either newly woken or something that would not have survived beyond the shores of Sothoryos that now finds the world open to it."

    How do you deal with the child snatcher of Naath?

    [] Let Wyla return to handle the matter (-1d6 progress for Myr inquisition base)

    [] Send someone else
    -[] Write in

    OOC: Well this was going to happen eventually, though it is a little unusual that it was Naath that got unlucky on the monster dice and not the Basilisk Isles which are closer.
     
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    [] Let Wyla return to handle the matter (Immigration attraction action for Naath lost)
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    Wylla was actually tasked to take part in setting up the Inquisition base in Myr. The looking for immigrants was just a side-note because Myr had some colonial ambitions in Sothoryos and I would really like to have some natural population shifts that we don't need to pay for.

    That being said, her time on that Inquisition task is very, very valuable. We should send someone else to hunt that Chupacabra.

    Edit: Here is the sheet. Chupacabra – d20PFSRD

    We are most likely dealing with the flying brand, as Naath is a bit far away to swim from Sothoryos. Due to the rapid escalation of attacks, it's probably a whole nest.
     
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    Oh, loot and XP! Who's available at this point, and can handle a little investigation and stealth?
    Garin would be perfect actually, if he isn't too busy.

    EDIT: Having looked at the turn plan, maybe Valeria? And hopefully Bronn&Co (or Maelor and Daenerys) could be finished soon and provide some firepower.
     
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    Azel said:
    Wylla was actually tasked to take part in setting up the Inquisition base in Myr. The looking for immigrants was just a side-note because Myr had some colonial ambitions in Sothoryos and I would really like to have some natural population shifts that we don't need to pay for.
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    In that case she loses a d6 from the progress if you send her.
     
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    [X] Plan Adventure Time
    -[X] You will go yourself and take Asha and Theon along. Also take half the mages preparing for the Yi-Ti trip to observe their performance in the field.
    -[X] While preparing for departure, let the House of Mirrors divine the best spot to start searching and rough description of the attacker.

    The Larder needs some refilling and what kind of month would this be if Viserys doesn't murder someone?

    Neither the expedition nor the festival should suffer from this.
     
    It's not the best outcome for our plans, but it would be appropriate for Wyla to return to Naath to deal with this.

    We can send her, Garin, Bronn, and Vee to assess the situation and remove the problem. Bronn and Vee need the XP and I don't think we have Vee assigned to any other combat actions this turn, so that should not impact her progress on other tasks.
     
    Goldfish said:
    It's not the best outcome for our plans, but it would be appropriate for Wyla to return to Naath to deal with this.

    We can send her, Garin, Bronn, and Vee to assess the situation and remove the problem. Bronn and Vee need the XP and I don't think we have Vee assigned to any other combat actions this turn, so that should not impact her progress on other tasks.
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    Bronn is the meatshield in Golden Fields, Garin on the same task as Wylla and Vee finishing the Fungal Pods.

    Let's just use the composition I mentioneded.

    It's a neat excuse to blood our lvl 5 graduates and we haven't seen Asha or Theon for ages.
     
    @Azel, beware! This tracking mission may take a while, and thus detract from other actions!
    What's the plan if the monster takes three weeks to find?
     
    Glyra and hey mob of imps would be a good substitute for actual children. Perfect mean little imps that would be great bait. Maybe make them hardy enough to survive an attack or escape quick enough to sound the alarm, and the crafty little devils can hound the creature like a pack of dogs.
     
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    Azel said:
    [X] Plan Adventure Time
    -[X] You will go yourself and take Asha and Theon along. Also take half the mages preparing for the Yi-Ti trip to observe their performance in the field.
    -[X] While preparing for departure, let the House of Mirrors divine the best spot to start searching and rough description of the attacker.

    The Larder needs some refilling and what kind of month would this be if Viserys doesn't murder someone?

    Neither the expedition nor the festival should suffer from this.
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    If we're going field trip with the kids, maybe take some Furys along? Possibly also moonsong? But defintly moonsong.

    Edit: what's lelia doing ATM, anyone know? :)
     
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