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

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Walliseatscheese said:
[X] Before doing anything to rescue Jeynes, check Roger per the previous methods to make sure that by rescuing one we don't condemn another.
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I don't want to take the time to check him, if it will give the Illithids time to figure out that we've discovered their machinations. And to be honest, he's not worth the effort of freeing if it would mean using another set of charges from the Staff of Ages.

I'll add him into the Divination questions, though.
 
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Goldfish said:
I don't want to take the time to check him, if it will give the Illithids time to figure out that we've discovered their machinations. And to be honest, he's not worth the effort of freeing if it would mean using another set of charges from the Staff of Ages.

I'll add him into the Divination questions, though.
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damn cold hearted goldfish. True still cold hearted though. Never would of expected this from you.
 
[X] Goldfish

Here's hoping that dying of a nightmare doesn't freak poor Jeyne out entirely... But funnily enough using that spell totally fits with the divination done earlier.
 
Absylon Quilby said:
Is nobody at all concerned about potential backlash in the form of Jeyne reacting poorly to what we tell her on waking up?
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There's not much to blunt the blow of, "Deep Ones have your real body, we're working on a rescue, just chill in a bottle until we can safely deal with it so they can't get to you."

At minimum she trusts our good intentions and hates the Deep Ones.
 
Duesal said:
There's not much to blunt the blow of, "Deep Ones have your real body, we're working on a rescue, just chill in a bottle until we can safely deal with it so they can't get to you."

At minimum she trusts our good intentions and hates the Deep Ones.
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No.
I'd say we keep the warning now short and cryptic to avoid a complete freakout (because whatever she imagines is likely less weird than reality) and when she wakes up sane and healthy in this body we choose very carefully what to tell her and how, while emphasizing that it's over, the Illithid-plans are gone and she's safe.
 
Artemis1992 said:
No.
I'd say we keep the warning now short and cryptic to avoid a complete freakout (because whatever she imagines is likely less weird than reality) and when she wakes up sane and healthy in this body we choose very carefully what to tell her and how, while emphasizing that it's over, the Illithid-plans are gone and she's safe.
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...Have you recently been bitten by a certain shaggy dog? o_O
 
[X] Goldfish

This mini-encounter is amusing on so many levels. The thread paranoia's so hard, the devil threw up his arms and walked out the vote.
 
Goldfish said:
I'm not sure what your issue is with the alternative plans? I would have just voted for your original non-silly plan if it was mechanically possible, but the curse ritual requires an hour. To enact your plan would need a minimum of three hours of ritual casting. There is no way the Illithids wouldn't act to fuck us over, even if only to interfere in such a way as to prevent us from recovering her soul.
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Your plan gives the Illithid ample time to take samples from her old body, making it impossible to destroy fully later on.
 
[X] Plan So Long And Thanks For The Psionics - Redux
-[X] Prepare the body for a ritual akin to Soulbind, so that it takes in Jeynes soul when her original body dies.
-[X] Check by Divination if her original body would survive the first check of Mummy Rot. If not proceed, else use @Goldfish plan.
-[X] Use the sympathetic connection to her original body and the Greater Curse staff, in conjunction with Viserys and Lya throwing their full Mythic might behind it to curse Jeynes original body with Contagious Mummy Rot, DC and CL adjusted to Viserys levels.
-[X] If you can conduct a 2 hour ritual and have both effects hit at the end of it simultaneously, also curse her CON to 1.

I give it 99% that her original "body" is a brain in a jar or a dessicated husk, so the first check should be her last.
 
Azel said:
[X] Contagious Mummy Rot, DC and CL adjusted to Viserys levels.
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I give it 99% that her original "body" is a brain in a jar or a dessicated husk, so the first check should be her last.
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First off, yay for alternative-workable-f-you-plan.

Second, not to throw flame on the fire....what if her body is still viable, with her brain extracted? Would the curses hit the brain, the body, both, neither?

Edit: 'Viable' as in corpse-like, not burned/digested/sidereally-fuckerated
 
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Scholar of Time said:
First off, yay for alternative-workable-f-you-plan.

Second, not to throw flame on the fire....what if her body is still viable, with her brain extracted? Would the curses hit the brain, the body, both, neither?

Edit: 'Viable' as in corpse-like, not burned/digested/sidereally-fuckerated
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The backlash from this kind of spell effect powered by Mythic points should ensure non-viability of original host remains.

Again, the biggest continuing worry is they have enough samples to just grow another Jeyne and use it in their next intrigue now that we have a Jeyne of our own.

There might not really be a way around that short of nuking the facility they housed her template and samples at, so there's no point worrying about it.
 
Scholar of Time said:
Umm....@Azel.

Teleport Object – d20PFSRD a knife with an Arcane Mark on it into/on the old body. Teleport the old body back, then teleport over a barrel of fused-up wildfire?
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The reason no one took the idea of a Dream incursion into their fortress seriously is they are sure to have some heavy-duty astral defenses. As in, Winterfell's rune arrangements, fully manned.
 
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