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

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[X] Plan So Long And Thanks For The Psionics
-[X] Prepare the body for a ritual akin to Soulbind, so that it takes in Jeynes soul when her original body dies.
-[X] Use the sympathetic connection to her original body and the Greater Curse staff:
--[X] Curse her CON to 1
--[X] Curse her with Mummy Rot
--[X] Curse her again to immediately force the first save

This gets us her soul in the useful body and straight up evaporates the original.
 
egoo said:
...we kinda are?
We have to make sure to do everything before Illithids catch on that we caught on... And keeping her asleep for much longer, or under Mindblank, is not conductive for that :/
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They aren't aware yet, we don't have to act immediately. We can't let this lie, obviously, but there's time to do other things.
 
[X] Azel
@Azel, add all the buffs Goldfish had, just in case?
After fully preparing themselves (using Divine Insight, Grand Destiny, Blood Wished Greater Heroism, Nine Lives, Surge of Fortune, etc.), Lya and Viserys' simultaneously bend the full weight of their Mythic Power (using Inspired Spell and Wild Arcana respectively), aided by Dany's Dreamcasting and backed up by Malarys and Vee on Alter Fortune duty, to siphon Jeyne's consciousness into the puppet body while forcefully rejecting any lingering Deep One influence over it.
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also, probably best to specify buffing up Viserys' CL for cursing too - just in case that squid-heads have one ward too many on the place.
 
Azel said:
[X] Plan So Long And Thanks For The Psionics
-[X] Prepare the body for a ritual akin to Soulbind, so that it takes in Jeynes soul when her original body dies.
-[X] Use the sympathetic connection to her original body and the Greater Curse staff:
--[X] Curse her CON to 1
--[X] Curse her with Mummy Rot
--[X] Curse her again to immediately force the first save

This gets us her soul in the useful body and straight up evaporates the original.
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No can do.
DragonParadox said:
Ability: This staff allows use of the following spells:
Special: By using up to twice the number of charges at once during an hour long ritual, the bearer can curse a target either present in person or through a token anointed with the subject's blood without allowing a save.
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After Varys we only have 20/30 charges. Even 20 Greater Curses uses up the Staff.
 
As a side note, with this shit they've pulled here, we now can never be sure about someone not being puppeteered by squids :o:o:o

Kinda damn scary a method of intrigue they have here.
Similar to what we pulled with Varys, but actually all but industrialized.
 
Azel said:
[X] Plan So Long And Thanks For The Psionics
-[X] Prepare the body for a ritual akin to Soulbind, so that it takes in Jeynes soul when her original body dies.
-[X] Use the sympathetic connection to her original body and the Greater Curse staff:
--[X] Curse her CON to 1
--[X] Curse her with Mummy Rot
--[X] Curse her again to immediately force the first save

This gets us her soul in the useful body and straight up evaporates the original.
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One flaw, doesn't it take time for Greater Curse between each casting?
 
Azel said:
Well, we have three parts to this:

1. We need her soul out of the Illithids clutches.
2. We need to keep the puppet alive.
3. We need the original body destroyed.

I would say we set up everything to draw the soul to the puppet when the old body croaks, the curse it's CON and destroy it by Remote-Destruction, channeled through the connection.
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Dumb question - is there any way we can chain together some sort of psionic backlash using the original body's death as a catalyst, given that they're doing something in order to keep control over the puppet once shes in position...?
 
Jeyne's current "body" is our break-in to the field of Psionics, in fact. If we lose this body we may be kind of stuck on researching it until we capture a Mindflayer or similar Psionic aberration and cut it apart in a more comprehensive Fleshforge (like Qohor or Gorgossos).
 
[X] Plan "Lightning-fast Divination-Chess-compliant"
[X] Attempt to draw Jeyne's consciousness fully into the puppet body
-[X] Keep Jeyne and Ser Reyne under an effect that will shield them from scrying. Do not wake Jeyne up.
-[X] Go and with haste have a meeting with an appropriate representative of Merling King - be it his daugter, or a cleric, while everyone else prepares for a ritual.
--[X] Relay the situation, and ask for Merling King's assistance on the matter.
---[X] Upon the success of drawing the consciousness of Jeyne into the new body, have Merling King break all metaphysical connections with the old body of hers, ensuring that Deep Ones cannot use it as a foci in any way.
-[X] After fully preparing themselves (using Divine Insight, Grand Destiny, Blood Wished Greater Heroism, Nine Lives, Surge of Fortune, etc.), Lya and Viserys' simultaneously bend the full weight of their Mythic Power (using Inspired Spell and Wild Arcana respectively), aided by Dany's Dreamcasting and backed up by Malarys and Vee on Alter Fortune duty, to siphon Jeyne's consciousness into the puppet body while forcefully rejecting any lingering Deep One influence over it.

Merling King can rip themetaphysical connection apart, DP's WoG on that.

Illithids will still have the body, and that's inda shitty, as they'll likely make it into another puppet...
But it won't be a foci to fuck Jeyne up magically anymore, at least.

We can deal with the puppet-body later, at least by keeping the possibility of a doppelganger in mind.
 
We could try to supercharge a Greater Curse and make that a curse of "have your soul sucked out".

Put Puppet Re-souled Jenny on a bottle, put bottle in the cloak, try to remotely destroy the body with another curse.
 
More detailed plan than my original proposal, complete with color coding to make it easier for me to pick out individual components from the wall of text.

[X] Attempt to rescue Jeyne;
-[X] Use multiple Divination spells, along with assistance from Vee's Hallucinogenic Smoke & Augury spells, to determine A) if it will be safe to temporarily wake Jeyne to warn her come back when we call for her, explaining that she will understand when the time is right (if it is safe, do so, if it is not, we'll have to chance it without warning her first) and B) is what we plan to attempt possible.
-[X] If the plan has a chance of succeeding, after fully preparing themselves (using Divine Insight, Grand Destiny, Nine Lives, etc.), the group attempts to draw Jeyne's soul and consciousness fully into the puppet body.
-[X] Malarys will use the sympathetic connection the puppet body shares with her original body to curse Jeyne using the Staff of Ages, reducing her Constitution attribute to one point.
--[X] Lya prepares Malarys to use the Staff of Ages first by activating her Bead of Karma to increase her Divine caster level to 20th, then casting Moment of Greatness and Harmonic Chorus on herself. She then cancels her Moment of Greatness spell to increase the caster level bonus from Harmonic Chorus to +4 while using Inspired Spell to place a 26th level Owl's Insight spell on Malarys, raising his Wisdom attribute to 39 and his Wisdom bonus to +14 (increasing the save DC of Bestow Greater Curse to 31). She places another Moment of Greatness and Harmonic Chorus spell on him before he completes the ritual, so that he can use them in conjunction with his own Bead of Karma to increase his caster level to 22.
--[X] Timing it so that he completes the spell just as Malarys finishes cursing Jeyne's true body, Viserys uses Ancestral Awakening to learn the Maximize Spell Metamagic feat then casts a Maximized Nightmare spell using Wild Arcana to inflict 10 points of damage upon her, slaying her instantly.
--[X] As the original body dies, Dany will simultaneously assist Lya in locating the Astral link shared between Jeyne and her flesh puppet so that she can use the full weight of her Mythic Power and deep understanding of the mysteries of the human soul to funnel Jeyne's liberated soul into the vacant puppet via Inspired Spell (nebulously borrowing from such Divine spells as Cyclic Reincarnation, Resurrection, Magic Jar, etc).
--[X] Vee remains on standby to assist however she can, from providing additional Divine magic to the impromptu ritual to using Alter Fortune should it prove necessary.
-[X] If successful, immediately return her to a Smoky Confinement bottle until a ritual to destroy her original body can be devised or we can receive Divine aid (from Yss, the Merling King, etc) to accomplish it.
 
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egoo said:
[X] Plan "Lightning-fast Divination-Chess-compliant"
[X] Attempt to draw Jeyne's consciousness fully into the puppet body
-[X] Keep Jeyne and Ser Reyne under an effect that will shield them from scrying. Do not wake Jeyne up.
-[X] Go and with haste have a meeting with an appropriate representative of Merling King - be it his daugter, or a cleric, while everyone else prepares for a ritual.
--[X] Relay the situation, and ask for Merling King's assistance on the matter.
---[X] Upon the success of drawing the consciousness of Jeyne into the new body, have Merling King break all metaphysical connections with the old body of hers, ensuring that Deep Ones cannot use it as a foci in any way.
-[X] After fully preparing themselves (using Divine Insight, Grand Destiny, Blood Wished Greater Heroism, Nine Lives, Surge of Fortune, etc.), Lya and Viserys' simultaneously bend the full weight of their Mythic Power (using Inspired Spell and Wild Arcana respectively), aided by Dany's Dreamcasting and backed up by Malarys and Vee on Alter Fortune duty, to siphon Jeyne's consciousness into the puppet body while forcefully rejecting any lingering Deep One influence over it.

Merling King can rip themetaphysical connection apart, DP's WoG on that.

Illithids will still have the body, and that's inda shitty, as they'll likely make it into another puppet...
But it won't be a foci to fuck Jeyne up magically anymore, at least.

We can deal with the puppet-body later, at least by keeping the possibility of a doppelganger in mind.
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See, this is actually a good plan, and all told DP has said it would work at least in general terms.

It has only one flaw, and this time lies not in whether or not it would succeed (which is obviously somewhat more important in some cases) but what would happen in the aftermath.

While they would have no Foci to use to target her with curses or other nasty effects, they would still have a perfect copy of her body.

They could ruin her life or make another pinprick in our reputation by puppeting it and making it kill someone important, either implicating her as simply being an Assassin who escaped justice to SD where we gave her shelter (earning enemies of whoever they kill with it) or even in "league" with the Deep Ones if they give that thing even nastier Psionic abilities too.
 
Crake said:
See, this is actually a good plan, and all told DP has said it would work at least in general terms.

It has only one flaw, and this time lies not in whether or not it would succeed (which is obviously somewhat more important in some cases) but what would happen in the aftermath.

While they would have no Foci to use to target her with curses or other nasty effects, they would still have a perfect copy of her body.

They could ruin her life or make another pinprick in our reputation by puppeting it and making it kill someone important, either implicating her as simply being an Assassin who escaped justice to SD where we gave her shelter (earning enemies of whoever they kill with it) or even in "league" with the Deep Ones if they give that thing even nastier Psionic abilities too.
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This can resolved with explosions. How do?
 
Goldfish said:
More detailed plan than my original proposal, complete with color coding to make it easier for me to pick out individual components from the wall of text.

[X] After fully preparing themselves (using Divine Insight, Grand Destiny, Nine Lives, etc.), the group attempts to draw Jeyne's soul and consciousness fully into the puppet body.
-[X] Malarys will use the sympathetic connection the puppet body shares with her original body to curse Jeyne using the Staff of Ages, reducing her Constitution attribute to one point.
--[X] Lya prepares Malarys to use the Staff of Ages first by activating her Bead of Karma to increase her Divine caster level to 20th, then casting Moment of Greatness and Harmonic Chorus on herself. She then cancels her Moment of Greatness spell to increase the caster level bonus from Harmonic Chorus to +4 while using Inspired Spell to place a 26th level Owl's Insight spell on Malarys, raising his Wisdom attribute to 39 and his Wisdom bonus to +14 (increasing the save DC of Bestow Greater Curse to 31). She places another Moment of Greatness and Harmonic Chorus spell on him before he completes the ritual, so that he can use them in conjunction with his own Bead of Karma to increase his caster level to 22.
--[X] Timing it so that he completes the spell just as Malarys finishes cursing Jeyne's true body, Viserys uses Ancestral Awakening to learn the Maximize Spell Metamagic feat then casts a Maximized Nightmare spell using Wild Arcana to inflict 10 points of damage upon her, slaying her instantly.
--[X] As the original body dies, Dany will simultaneously assist Lya in locating the Astral link shared between Jeyne and her flesh puppet so that she can use the full weight of her Mythic Power and deep understanding of the mysterious of the human soul to funnel Jeyne's liberated soul into the vacant puppet via Inspired Spell (nebulously borrowing from such Divine spells as Cyclic Reincarnation, Resurrection, Magic Jar, etc).
--[X] Vee remains on standby to assist however she can, from providing additional Divine magic to the impromptu ritual to using Alter Fortune should it prove necessary.
-[X] If successful, immediately return her to a Smoky Confinement bottle until a ritual to destroy her original body can be devised.
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Shouldn't we try and divine the likelyhood of her soul coming first?

Awakening her seconds before the spell is completed and telling her "come back when I call you" should help significantly.
 
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