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Like comparable to ours or something better. Then again they probably had like multiple mage schools compared to our two? Three? Well the question is still worth asking.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Like comparable to ours or something better. Then again they probably had like multiple mage schools compared to our two? Three? Well the question is still worth asking.
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Well, the Valyrians had an established empire full of educated people from top to bottom, whereas we're building our empire and working on educating everyone. We're making a good effort but the Valyrians had far better infrastructure.
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We have gotten a good start though. And with the second scholarium we can do more actions and get more mages. Also second researcher get. Do we know when we plan on helping her get her kids back?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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They would just be targets right now. Too weak, magically speaking, to be particularly useful or effective against an Other-incited attack. And there aren't really any appropriate places for them to level.
It's better for them to keep learning at the Scholarium and get a few levels under them that way, IMO.
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Yeah, we have a great start, especially since we bargained for Zathir to help out.
As for the expedition, it's scheduled for next month. We're sending her and a strike team into the Astral Plane to search for her kids.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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@Duesal @DragonParadox What gear does Anu have? Have we given him anything yet?
And what are his stats?
And what are his stats?
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Well beyond the wall is dangerous but we have found a few dungeons in Westeros that Bloodraven will gives us a heads up on OOC. Now the issue there is that we can only operate our mages in Dorne without too great a risk.
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Well, this is awkward. It appears that beyond getting his spellbook back and whatever else was in his secret chest we retrieved, we never actually equipped him. Viserys for example is wearing Anu's former Lesser Star of Sallosh and probably not giving it back.
Blank slate for you I guess.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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There is enough crafting capacity left next month that we can get him geared up quite well. Thankfully, we looted that +4 Circlet of Clarity from the Brachina, so that can go to him, too.
I'm about to head out for a bit, but I'll get a list together for him when I return.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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- Wordcats
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
A sentient disease-daemon, that slowly and painfully kills its victims?
Merling King will love that sacrifice, I'm sure
...Well, I kinda want to research it beforehand, to be honest, because dropping this sort of self-perpetuating stuff is a nuclear option against illithid and stacks nicely with that idea of "make illithids magically addicted to eating their brethren's flesh".
Aberration-zombies plague, ahoy!
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]But, well, too few Researchers available.
Down the God's gob this goes.
Update in beta.
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Mage duels please?
Which semifinalists will meet soon?
I'll write up hi stats either today or tomorrow.
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Just give us the basic outline, we can do the rest.
I think @Goldfish has taken an interest there anyway?
He is a specialist transmute wizard who can craft wands, constructs,wondrous items and arms and armor
His base stats at level 1 are
15, 10 ,11 ,14, 10, 16
If any of you guys want to try for his sheet that is perfectly alright with me.
Part MMDCC: In Light by Shadows Shown
In Light by Shadows Shown
Twenty-Seventh Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC
You briefly consider asking for privacy, but as most of what you have to share are warnings you decide that it would be best for the whole of the court to hear. The last thing you would wish to do is craft a path for that Thing you had faced to worm its way into the heart of the Braavosi court. "The canker you have felt is most likely a remnant of the Empire of Dawn, a realm all but forgotten by mortals, though I will gladly share what little lore of it is recalled. How much of this is true history and how much fanciful tale I cannot say for certain."
The court is by turns fascinated, amused, and finally frightened as you move on from the legends of men to what you have learned of the deathless Rakshasa ever obedient to their master's will, bound in chains so mighty that even an attempt to summon the least of them had brought you into conflict with the malevolence called 'the Bloodstone Emperor.' "I proved the stronger in the end and freed the spirit now my vassal. If you would know more of what he does I am wiling to set him the task of speaking to you for a set period of time and as long as he is willing."
The king frowns: "One would assume his willingness were established beforehand, yes?"
"Of course," you answer, more startled than insulted at the implication. "I do not seek to cheat you."
"I did not assume you would, Dragon King, but you were born a mortal and the minds of mortals are strange things indeed," he replies, much to your carefully hidden amusement. How many times had men thought this of the Fey after all.
"Fairly said," you nod instead. "It will be established beforehand what Tor wishes to say and what he does not." It still feels strange and disquieting to use the name of your old ally turned enemy for the being that had stolen a portion to his memories, but you push the sensation aside. There are far more important matters at stake. "Now, what can you tell me of the Court of Stars?"
In answer the king rises from his seat and casts a handful of glowing dust into the air. There it hangs, beginning to spin gently around a central point. "Tales illuminate the Void of Being as star-fire illuminates that of Form. In one as in the other all things spin inwards upon themselves, and in so doing light is born that stretches seeking into the blackness." As he speaks a point of brilliant white flares in the center of the small cloud, and the rest of the dust forms a flat disc around it spinning faster and faster. "Thus are shadows born ever upon the edge, thus the rooted ones, the green-blood, are spun forth as a sphere looking ever to the light but never falling inwards."
Some of the dust had clumped together in spheres, turning round and round while the rest had thinned to stray wisps.
"So the Court of Stars is the light at the center?" Garin guesses.
"Yes, it is the desire of all tales to flow into one another into one all consuming point..." Pale lips twist into a grimace. "A god."
"But the system is not crashing inwards," you note trying to grasp the metaphor that is itself the literal truth of the fey. "It won't ever happen."
"No, and in this balance light serves its purpose—illuminating the whole, giving purpose and motion—but it also burns if one reaches too close." He pauses for a moment as though pondering the wisdom of continuing. "The mortals of the land called the Reach have stared too long into the light. If they do not avert their gazes then they will be filled with it as a vessel of glass and only through its will shall they be moved. Mistake me not, Dragon King, I do not speak of simple enchantment that the countless of my court can work on any single mortal, but rather of a realm where the veil between Form and Meaning thins as it had in the Days of Dawn. I have seen much of mortals of late, and I would judge that few of them would truly wish to live in their tales, no matter how pleasing to the ear."
"What sort of tales?" you ask, intrigued. You had not thought the darkling king would know so much of what is happening a thousand leagues and more away, but he did call himself a trader in secrets.
"One of grace and chivalry, righteous knights and beauteous maidens—a fortress and a stage all at once, a play in which mortals would have less room to improvise than they usually do."
A fairy tale land, you realize, a chill going down your spine. A literal godsdamned fairy tale land imposed by godlike power, a web spun of the very dreams of its inhabitants. There are worse fates in this world, powers truly malignant rather than merely strange, but the fey must be tempered, constrained by law and oath, perhaps as much for their own sake as that of mortals. The image wrought of dust and spell-fire still turns before you. They do not wish to fall inwards, but left to their own devices unopposed they might in time... a great deal of time, granted.
"What can you tell me of the slumbering king, the queen upon her throne?" you press on.
"Of that I have heard but a little, for none of my own servants dare venture close to gaze upon either," replies the pallid king. "Still, the same courtesies that served you here will do so there, and remember there are also many who would be willing to help you ascent a staircase made of their own rivals' heads."
"That much mortals and immortals have in common, my lord," Garin jests.
Speaking of rivals and the weapons they might use... Making use of Varys' talents, you silently ask the king if he still holds your shadow or whatever was wrought of it.
Much to your relief he does, but the price he asks for in return surprises you. "A dragon's egg. What would he even do with one?" you ask, trusting Varys not to carry along the incredulity.
"Not an ordinary stupid dragon, a shadow wyrm's egg as can be found in the deeper realms of dusk," she replies after a few moments. "He wishes to possess a mighty mount that none might lightly challenge him in the air. He would raise it from a hatching to be more ally than beast of burden."
A fey prince might manage it you suppose, but you would not bet anything of worth upon it. "What if I just made or found some other creature just as fierce and regal?" you ask.
Fortunately the Orphne King is willing to listen, to that or any other offer you might be inclined to make by virtue of both your power and your past aid given to his court.
What do you offer for your shadow?
[] Accept seeking Shadow Dragon eggs
[] Make a counter offer
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OOC: You guys can also freely make an offer for the Unraveling and wards. There is no reason he has to make the first offer. Remember the fey like interesting and unique gifts, things that enhance their personal tales.
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@Goldfish, @Artemis1992 - how about making him a Focused Specialist, giving him levels in Master Specialist (or some Eberron Warforged PrC, gotta check those again to see if there's a decent one around) and making him a self-buffer/Familiar-buffer? If possible with a Construct Familiar or three, that he could be crafting again now.
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Not only am I leery at having to hand off a Shadow Dragon egg, there's also the question of finding it which would pretty much be its own fetch quest and would take forever.
We could probably either make him a nice construct, or grow something for him in the Fungus Forge. @DragonParadox, is there a rough CR he was looking for?
We could probably either make him a nice construct, or grow something for him in the Fungus Forge. @DragonParadox, is there a rough CR he was looking for?
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Stories find together. No character should be wasted.
I would bet you, copper for adamant, that the old Shadow Dragon in Tiamat's service happens to be female and have eggs.
CR wise something of at least CR 10 though he is more interesting in it fitting his themes, of shadow, illusion made real and deadly and the hunt for his foes.