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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:
Not even a single day to grab the Court Mage's ship? Can't we send Amrelath to get that for us in proxy?
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Dude, we can't attack the Sultan's court mage with anything less than our full party.
That guy has to be a level 20 fullcaster to get the position, I'd be wary of attacking him with everyone, but sending just a few people is a suicide commando.
 
Amrelath is currently slotted in to lead the anemic B-Party we had left over on barrow raids in case of Other responses to that. And all our A-List is busy with cleaning up after Varys, research, Scholarium courses and what not.

We can't take the court mage without screwing over important strategic goals on Planetos.
 
Evaunit02mark1 said:
Don't we have an undead god that hates devils swimming in that place?

Seems to me opening a portal to hell is basically just ringing the poor bastard's dinner bell.
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It's a demonic artifact not a devilish artifact, it will be summoning demons not devils, the undead god will probably still enjoy eating them, but not quite as much as it would devils.
 
Azel said:
Amrelath is currently slotted in to lead the anemic B-Party we had left over on barrow raids in case of Other responses to that. And all our A-List is busy with cleaning up after Varys, research, Scholarium courses and what not.

We can't take the court mage without screwing over important strategic goals on Planetos.
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Dude, it's one day. We should be able manage that, regardless of what else is going on. Taking a day long break from research or whatever else is going on isn't going to ruin progress.

And if not, at least we can tell the Djinni and Shaitan about him.

EDIT: It doesn't really matter right now, though, because my vote doesn't lock us in to anything.
 
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Goldfish said:
Dude, it's one day. We should be able manage that, regardless of what else is going on. Taking a day long break from research or whatever else is going on isn't going to ruin progress.

And if not, at least we can tell the Djinni and Shaitan about him.

EDIT: It doesn't really matter right now, though, because my vote doesn't lock is in to anything.
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Not to mention the fact that the court mage wouldn't be poking around for rare reagents during a war for no reason. We really don't want him to bring them back to the Brazen Throne.
 
Do we want to take on that guy at all?
Court Mage of the Brazen Throne?

The regular mages of the City could pull off a Mythic ritual to channel the Sultan's power.
This guy is very likely better.

Do you want find out what an archmage on a Malik-chassis looks like from close up?
 
Guys I just realized there is a slight confusion, the court mage will not be personally looking for reagents. He sent an expedition.

Anyway vote closed
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Mar 16, 2019 at 2:55 PM, finished with 115 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] Goldfish
    [X] Tell Ser Gerold Dayne that we have no shortage of foes in need of slaying, ranging from the mundane to utterly fantastical. If he wants to slay monsters, or take up a grand Keep and guard the Demon Road from creatures crawling out of the Valyrian Badlands, or join what is quite literally the best army in the world to glory and victory ... the world's wide open to him.
    -[X] Hint that our leal subjects often get special attention to their gear by our artisans, oftentimes more than the tourney winners.
    [X] Continue with the jousts
    [X] Plan Doing All the Things
    -[X] Question Yrten further
    --[X] What do they know of the Sultan's Court Wizard?
    --[X] Do they know when the Brazen Fleet escorting Doomship is set to be launched?
    --[X] What news of the news of the war do they bring? (Extraplanar Rumor Post?)
    --[X] With the advent of the Planar Terminus, how are the extraplanar markets adjusting to the influx of goods from the Plane of Balance? (Info on what goods are of higher value, what goods are losing value, etc?)
    -[X] Blood Wish a Sending spell to Embra's father, requesting an urgent meeting as soon as can be arranged in Sorcerer's Deep. We have information of great importance to the Djinni war effort.
    --[X] Plan to share news of the Efreeti Doomship and offer our assistance in dealing with it when the time comes, if we are available.
    -[X] Continue with the Jousts, but first;
    --[X] Send someone to congratulate Ser Harras Harlaw on his performance, and ask for updates on the Reader's situation. Anything he needs, information he wants to share, the readiness of the Iron fleet, etc.
    --[X] Send Waymar to meet with the Redforts and hopefully set them at ease. Find out why exactly they showed up, if they're receptive to further ties, a son being granted land in Essos, that sort of thing.
    --[X] Connington's house is ultimately too minor to contribute much immediately, but Bloodraven mentioned the possibility of griffon's near their sole holding. Send Ser Richard and Vee both to receive their declarations of allegiance and raise the possibility of finding the creatures.
    --[X] Send a messenger to fetch Karyl Grafton. Technically, King Viserys has made no official contact with house Grafton, now's as good a time as any to change that
    [X] Plan Doing All the Things
    -[X] Question Yrten further
    --[X] What do they know of the Sultan's Court Wizard?
    --[X] Do they know when the Brazen Fleet escorting Doomship is set to be launched?
    --[X] What news of the news of the war do they bring? (Extraplanar Rumor Post?)
    --[X] With the advent of the Planar Terminus, how are the extraplanar markets adjusting to the influx of goods from the Plane of Balance? (Info on what goods are of higher value, what goods are losing value, etc?)
    -[X] Blood Wish a Sending spell to Embra's father, requesting an urgent meeting as soon as can be arranged in Sorcerer's Deep. We have information of great importance to the Djinni war effort.
    --[X] Plan to share news of the Efreeti Doomship and offer our assistance in dealing with it when the time comes.
    -[X] Continue with the Jousts.
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Mar 16, 2019 at 2:55 PM, finished with 54 posts and 8 votes.
  • [X] Plan Doing All the Things
    -[X] Question Yrten further
    --[X] What do they know of the Sultan's Court Wizard?
    --[X] Do they know when the Brazen Fleet escorting Doomship is set to be launched?
    --[X] What news of the news of the war do they bring? (Extraplanar Rumor Post?)
    --[X] With the advent of the Planar Terminus, how are the extraplanar markets adjusting to the influx of goods from the Plane of Balance? (Info on what goods are of higher value, what goods are losing value, etc?)
    -[X] Blood Wish a Sending spell to Embra's father, requesting an urgent meeting as soon as can be arranged in Sorcerer's Deep. We have information of great importance to the Djinni war effort.
    --[X] Plan to share news of the Efreeti Doomship and offer our assistance in dealing with it when the time comes, if we are available.
    -[X] Continue with the Jousts, but first;
    --[X] Send someone to congratulate Ser Harras Harlaw on his performance, and ask for updates on the Reader's situation. Anything he needs, information he wants to share, the readiness of the Iron fleet, etc.
    --[X] Send Waymar to meet with the Redforts and hopefully set them at ease. Find out why exactly they showed up, if they're receptive to further ties, a son being granted land in Essos, that sort of thing.
    --[X] Connington's house is ultimately too minor to contribute much immediately, but Bloodraven mentioned the possibility of griffon's near their sole holding. Send Ser Richard and Vee both to receive their declarations of allegiance and raise the possibility of finding the creatures.
    --[X] Send a messenger to fetch Karyl Grafton. Technically, King Viserys has made no official contact with house Grafton, now's as good a time as any to change that
    [X] Continue with the jousts
    [X] Plan Doing All the Things
    -[X] Question Yrten further
    --[X] What do they know of the Sultan's Court Wizard?
    --[X] Do they know when the Brazen Fleet escorting Doomship is set to be launched?
    --[X] What news of the news of the war do they bring? (Extraplanar Rumor Post?)
    --[X] With the advent of the Planar Terminus, how are the extraplanar markets adjusting to the influx of goods from the Plane of Balance? (Info on what goods are of higher value, what goods are losing value, etc?)
    -[X] Blood Wish a Sending spell to Embra's father, requesting an urgent meeting as soon as can be arranged in Sorcerer's Deep. We have information of great importance to the Djinni war effort.
    --[X] Plan to share news of the Efreeti Doomship and offer our assistance in dealing with it when the time comes.
    -[X] Continue with the Jousts.
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Artemis1992 said:
Do we want to take on that guy at all?
Court Mage of the Brazen Throne?

The regular mages of the City could pull off a Mythic ritual to channel the Sultan's power.
This guy is very likely better.

Do you want find out what an archmage on a Malik-chassis looks like from close up?
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Poor comparison, IMO. It took two high level Efreeti mages to pull off that ritual, it requires the Sultans power to be channeled, and it rendered them helpless while in use.

Even if he is a 20th level caster, that's hardly an insurmountable obstacle for us now, though I certainly wouldn't treat him as a soft target.
 
Goldfish said:
Dude, it's one day. We should be able manage that, regardless of what else is going on. Taking a day long break from research or whatever else is going on isn't going to ruin progress.

And if not, at least we can tell the Djinni and Shaitan about him.

EDIT: It doesn't really matter right now, though, because my vote doesn't lock us in to anything.
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No, that's hardly one day. Or do you want to attack them in the middle of a no doubt fortified Efreeti city?

The month is already full of interruptions for all involved. Don't push it by again pretending that a whole raiding expedition is a minor action.
 
TBH I think we could get in one battle by handing off an Arcane Marked stone and being prepared to hear a Sending.

Djinni Captain sends to us, "We've found them, the fight is right now."

We planeshift in a strike group, greater teleport to the stone, and then we're in business. We stick around for the fight, get in some minor looting (a few turtle ships sound tasty) then deuces.

Ordinarily a expeditionary attack to another Plane would take at least a week.

We have allies to do the scut-work.
 
Azel said:
No, that's hardly one day. Or do you want to attack them in the middle of a no doubt fortified Efreeti city?

The month is already full of interruptions for all involved. Don't push it by again pretending that a whole raiding expedition is a minor action.
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Expeditions take time to both travel and to achieve their objectives.

Just hire out someone to keep track of them or secret an Arcane Mark somewhere on it and we'll be able to track it down when we have more time.

Bribing a low ranking crew member for status updates is almost certainly par for course in this political environment.
 
Crake said:
TBH I think we could get in one battle by handing off an Arcane Marked stone and being prepared to hear a Sending.

Djinni Captain sends to us, "We've found them, the fight is right now."

We planeshift in a strike group, greater teleport to the stone, and then we're in business. We stick around for the fight, get in some minor looting (a few turtle ships sound tasty) then deuces.

Ordinarily a expeditionary attack to another Plane would take at least a week.

We have allies to do the scut-work.
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That's what I was thinking. We don't have to do any of the travel time at all. And even with all the things listed -- the Varys cleanup wasn't being handled by us, the vast majority of Pentos' conquest isn't being handled by us but by the Sealord instead (all we're doing is showing up for the battle and scaring the crap out of the Pentoshi), and the conclave takes at most two weeks though it's probably shorter.

Saying that we sacrifice all our strategic goals in Prime Material by sparing one day for the battle seems exaggerated.

And it should be noted that this might not be a Prime Material strategic goal, but it's a strategic goal nonetheless. We do not want that Court Mage to get his hands on these reagents.
 
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...can the "ingredient" the expedition is being set for, be the undead-snek itself?

The possibility is there, we know it is hunted actively.

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Getting more info won't be reasonable either - time is short due to strategic tasks.
 
Well, I can't do more then warn you, but this will definitely take more then a day. It's exceedingly likely that the whole thing is just the hook for another fetch-quest that binds us 2 weeks in the PoF.
 
Azel said:
Well, I can't do more then warn you, but this will definitely take more then a day. It's exceedingly likely that the whole thing is just the hook for another fetch-quest that binds us 2 weeks in the PoF.
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If you're so worried about it then we don't have to go, just send Amrelath and a few PCs in our place. Since the Court Mage isn't on the ship it won't be a suicide mission and he can handle it, and we get the reagents.

As for timing, we could just have Yrten and Siduri only call when the ship is both just out of the port and when they're readying to attack. I seriously doubt it's a hook for a fetch quest, though. Sometimes loot is just loot. Was Zathir's ship attached to a fetch quest? No. The quest was capturing the ship.
 
@TalonofAnathrax Dunno if you're participating in France's new national sport today, but I read that things got a bit violent today. Hopefully you didn't get caught up in any rioting.
 
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