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

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Alright. Time for mad science.

Mammon Machine
This fusion of arcane engineering and flesh-crafting was wrought in the deepest bowels of the Fungus Forge of Lys to sustain the unliving flesh of an Archduke of hell and harness it's fell nature. At the core stands a large, spherical tank, containing the remains of an Aspect of Mammon and a fungal substrate that nourishes it and keeps it alive. This tank is warded by a Wall of Good, a Wall of Chaos and Magic Circles against Evil and Law, thus fully encasing the body and the fluids it produces. There are three opening in this warding scheme. The first is on the top, where a special made nutrient solution is pumped into the vessel, the other two are on opposing sides of the vessel and used to separate purified energies produced by this device. One pipe is warded by Wall of Chaos and Magic Circle against Law, thus allowing only a pure essence of Evil to move through it, while the other is warded by Wall of Good and Magic Circle against Evil to produce a purified essence of Law.

To further enhance security, the machine located on a dedicated, permanent Demiplane that has a minor alignment with Positive Energy to ensure the vitality of the flesh within. By feeding the machine with arcane reagents worth 200 IM, it can produce 1 HD worth of essence of Evil or Law.

Resurrecting Mammons Flesh
Let's say 5,000 IM.

Main Vessel
Wall of Good - 2,500 IM
Wall of Chaos - 2,500 IM
Magic Circle against Evil - 1,500 IM
Magic Circle against Law - 1,500 IM

Law Pipe
Wall of Good - 2,500 IM
Magic Circle against Evil - 1,500 IM

Evil Pipe
Wall of Chaos - 2,500 IM
Magic Circle against Law - 1,500 IM

Demi-Plane
Base - 4,500 IM
Minor Positive Alignment - 4,500 IM

Total: 30,000 IM

@DragonParadox, this sounds fine for you?
 
egoo said:
We also have Brijidine's skin, which should be anough for a similar, if decidedly less powerful, contraption of Good/Chaos..?
@DragonParadox?

That aside, please yes.
I want this horrific monstruocity of science and lack of morals.
So much experiment-fodder.
So much magebane poison...

*_*
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I'm not sure if the Brijidine's skin will be enough to build a Good / Chaos variant. Though we might be able to whip something up by generously splicing her together with some Dawn Fruit trees.
 
And I'm looking forward to researching VS made from pure Law instead. Imperial Steel.

Maybe that's how we can finally get some DR on that stuff.
 
Azel said:
I'm not sure how to set up a separator for that.

Though we might instead just build some kind of energy collector in the PoF. The plinth from Valyria might be a good start to research something like that.
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I would start by treating some steel with similar rituals as VS, but using Efreeti.

They are not actually creatures of LAW, by subtype they are just Fire.

If some testing in that direction reveals promising results, we can look into mass-production, but for now I mostly want to try making VS-variants from different kinds of inherently magical creatures to see what happens.

I'd even volunteer to keep the spreadsheet with the test-results of mixing various options.
 
Duesal said:
I don't maintain a trophy room for nothing, dude. Just ask the corpse what its name is.

We don't know its name, btw.
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:facepalm:

I completely forgot that this is the same Cornugon standing in our trophy room.

@egoo, please add him to the summoning schedule. I've got a mighty fine omake in mind.
Artemis1992 said:
I would start by treating some steel with similar rituals as VS, but using Efreeti.

They are not actually creatures of LAW, by subtype they are just Fire.

If some testing in that direction reveals promising results, we can look into mass-production, but for now I mostly want to try making VS-variants from different kinds of inherently magical creatures to see what happens.

I'd even volunteer to keep the spreadsheet with the test-results of mixing various options.
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Look, I'm the last guy you need to convince of experimenting around by grinding various kinds of creatures into steel additives. I would even go as far as to try Abberation. We will likely throw a Disjunction at the results, grind it down to powder and then Disjunction the powder again before dumping it into the Abyss, but... you know...
 
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Interlude CDV: Spectacle of Spear and Stone
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    • Spectacle of Spear and Stone ​

    Twenty-Fourth Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC

    Oberyn Martell sighed inwardly as he passed the Velaryon girl in the corridors of the arena. Though both of them were wearing glamours he had seen her enough times without it to know that she certainly had nothing to hide beneath hers, and the spirit she had shown in the Circle made him curious about where else she might be spirited. Alas, Tyene had done the usual excellent job of warning her away. The bane of having too many clever and beautiful daughters, Oberyn thought, unable to even inwardly finish the 'complaint' without a smile pulling at the edges of his mouth.

    Shaking off the thought, the Red Viper stepped into the blazing sun of the arena, drinking in the cheers like a glass of fine wine. Maybe he could persuade Doran to organize personal duels instead of a general melee the next time there was a tourney in Sunspear. It was a hell of a lot easier to cut a dashing figure when you could stand and play to the crowd rather than desperately prodding at the armored clump made up of the various fools who took into their heads they had a grudge against him.

    His opponent in this newest exhibition was not a man at all but a spirit of stone, a true blood, not a half-mortal like Ilea. Much as he might have liked to reminisce about the passionate but all-too-brief affair, now was not the time. The gems upon this 'Nizuta's' fingers glinted with more than common light, and he bore his curved blade with an easy skill.

    With a flurry of the weapon, playing to the crowd every bit as much as Oberyn was, the Shaitan challenged: "So, how well can you handle that spear?

    "I've gotten no complaints so far about my handling of... spears." That particular double entendre was so easy he had been using it since he was twelve, but still it proved itself again by sending a laugh rippling up the stands.

    The stone-born merely snorted. "Then we shall see if I have any by the time this duel is done."

    With that the horns blew and the Red Viper charged quick as his namesake just as Nizuta tried to slip beneath the sands like a fish in the sea. The spearhead grazed his head with a sound like cracking stone. Yet though the blows rained on he still sought and found sanctuary within the stone.

    "What the fuck am I supposed to do now, dig you out like a rabbit from a burrow?" Oberyn challenged.

    The answer came as a sword almost cutting him off at the knees while his foe was still half submerged in the sand. That he managed to keep his legs from being cut to ribbons was a testament to Sunspear's long-dead master-at-arms in punishing bad footwork.

    "Well then, if you can go down then I can go up." So saying, the Red Viper jumped about five feet in the air, light as a feather on the wind and hung there suspended, out of sword's reach but not a spear's reach. His silver-threaded cloak flowed gently around him as though he were immersed in water not air.

    Thought I'd be using this against things that fly, not ones that burrow, Oberyn said to himself, not that he really objected. They were both playing a little loose with the letter of the rules but not the spirit.

    "Think you can skip over today?" Nizuta taunted from the north side of the arena, his back about four feet from the wall.

    Seeing his chance, Oberyn dove with all the nimbleness he had in the air, and in a rush of windblown sand he was there, spear rising to stab once under the arm... twice into the small of the back, but as he tried to strike a third time his foe turned and rather than strike with his sword he charged like a rampaging bull smashing him into the stone... through the stone until he was trapped as a fly in amber.

    "An acceptable showing, mortal, but now..." Nizuta begun smugly, not that Oberyn was listening.

    Crossing his toes the Prince of Dorne called on the power of his boots. Silver flashed and he was again behind his foe, silencing him by the tried-and-tested method of spearing him in the spine twice more.

    "You should always watch your back around the Dornish, friend," the Red Viper smiled cheerfully as he tumbled away and called up five more figments to ward him from blows.

    The crazy bastard closed his eyes as he slashed unerringly at Oberyn's right hand. "I can hear your steps but not theirs," the Shaitan said through gritted teeth, raising his sword again for another flurry of blows... only for the butt of Oberyn's spear to come crashing into his head sending him reeling, then falling.

    "You should watch your front, too. We aren't that particular," the Red Viper said before to the crowd as the healers rushed forward to do their work.

    OOC: Oberyn won this by a decent margin, but I figured it was still fun enough to show.
     
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    • Azel said:
    Look, I'm the last guy you need to convince of experimenting around by grinding various kinds of creatures into steel additives. I would even go as far as to try Abberation. We will likely throw a Disjunction at the results, grind it down to powder and then Disjunction the powder again before dumping it into the Abyss, but... you know...
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    That would need really good measures to avoid a spontaneous Far Realm overlap, as the first step in your machine seems to be to concentrate the thing you are using later on. And concentrating 'I reject your world's physics and substitute teal taste' might have some interesting side-effects.
     
    MTB said:
    That would need really good measures to avoid a spontaneous Far Realm overlap, as the first step in your machine seems to be to concentrate the thing you are using later on. And concentrating 'I reject your world's physics and substitute teal taste' might have some interesting side-effects.
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    No, I don't want to build a machine. Just mulch up a few Illithids to see what happens if we use them in the VS forging process.
     
    Azel said:
    @egoo, please add him to the summoning schedule. I've got a mighty fine omake in mind.
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    Current summoning schedule consists of:
    1) Various unnamed devils of mammon's, whom we were to pull from beyond Planetos.
    2) Various Devils in Westeors and Essos that we got to know about from Varys, excluding "The one enthralling Garth the Gross in Highgarden, the one leading the Vale cell".

    Currently spent days summoning in the background: ~18-20 (out of 24 seen on-screen)

    I'll remind DP about the Cornugon when the time comes.
    That is, if we are lucky enough and it already reformed back there in hells.
     
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