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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Keep watch is pretty low level, though it would scale with the character somewhat. What is mind-breakingly difficult study for most people is a spot of light reading for Lya
It would help with both study and fighting practice to a degree though.
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But you could do any amount of study or practice while benefitting from the spell? Which would greatly increase its utility towards self-improvement if so.
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You could yes.
Winning vote:
[] "The question is if you even want to go back. There are many paths in my realm open to a lady, far more then in Westeros. For one, I do happen to know a woman with a keen interest in art if you wish to rekindle your old passion."
-[] Introduce her to Azema.
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Part MMDCCLXXII: Warriors' Laurels, King's Triumph
Warriors' Laurels, King's Triumph
Thirty-First Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC
"The question is if you even want to go back." You speak softly, but without seeming to be too gentle. The last thing Lynesse needs is to be wrapped in silk, that is precisely what has been smothering her for most of her life. "There are many paths in my realm open to a lady, far more then in Westeros. For one, I do happen to know a woman with a keen interest in art if you wish to rekindle your old passion."
"That's not... I hope I might make something pleasing if Your Grace desires it, but painting was just a childish distraction. It's not what I should be doing, not..."
"Proper?" you finish on a question. "And is it proper for a king to be a sorcerer, to involve himself in trade, to publicly perform blood sacrifice? You will find plenty of lords and septons yet in the Seven Kingdoms to say no, most of them with Lannister coin in their pockets, but the point stands. Many find this city I have made strange and few think it home upon first sight. Even my thoughts at times turn back to Braavos, but Sorcerer's Deep is home now, and that I would not change for all the world's yesterdays."
"Braavos, not King's Landing?" she dares to ask, then looks like she would like to snatch the words back. It's the first personal question she had asked you.
"When I dwelt in the Red Keep I saw the world with a child's eyes. Looking back upon those years knowing what I do is far less pleasant than living them was," you reply honestly.
Lynesse's eyes widen slightly in understanding, but she does not comment on the matter further. "This woman with an interest in art, is she highborn?"
"By blood, yes, though the lands of her kin have long since been lost in the shifting tides of Essosi wars and she has no real interest in reclaiming them, preferring to travel and study," you reply, forbearing to mention what the other side of Azema's heritage is.
***
Thankfully the Alu Demon finds Lynesse interesting by reason of her history, though not for the reason most would. Where many might be impressed with the ancient lineage of House Hightower, Azema questions Lynesse about Oldtown, its theaters, its libraries, its septs and temples. Though Lynesse is unable to answer many of those questions, having been restricted from anything that might seem 'coarse' or 'common', she seems to be enjoying herself regardless, and by the time Azema suggests a theme for a painting she accepts the challenge with only mild trepidation.
By the time you are reasonably certain you can leave Lynesse in Azema's care you once again have to use magic to will yourself across the city and directly into the royal box, just in time to see Amrelath triumph against the Arcanums and Mereth, though not without paying a tithe of blood for his victory. Though you had to restore his right eye after an arrow claimed it, the ancient crimson wyrm is content in his victory, basking in the cheers of the crowd as is his due.
And so the festival is almost at its end as you stand before the victors of all the contests you had set, from Sandor Clegane and Oberyn Martell, still veiled in his glamour, to Balon Swann, Kojja Mo, and Balarr Break-Bow, now likely to need another name given the dragonbone bow he bears. Upon the sands facing the crowds are warriors from the east and west, the north and south, some already in your service, like Valaena and the Legion rider Ivezqoy, others who had taken it along with their winnings and some who would come join them in the fullness of time. You meet eyes with Melisandre briefly before you speak. No doubt she has guessed your purpose, yet here she still remains, for here lay the answers she seeks.
"By strength, daring, wisdom, and skill you all who stand here before me have proven yourselves worthy of acclaim, praise, and of glory. Thus besides these prizes of gold, sorcery, and dragonsteel I offer also my thanks for helping to make of this month, of this festival a moment that will live on in the memory of the people of the Deep and those watching us from distant cities."
One by one you take the oaths of those swearing themselves to you, mystery knights unveiling themselves as necessary and so in the sight of the Deep and a good portion of Western Essos you raise up great nobles of warriors and mages alike. You wonder how long it will be before the news gets to the Red Keep and beyond, and then you make a note too for Lord Darry and Lord Velaryon to keep particularly careful watch on their fellow conspirators over the next few months, just in case someone should be driven to excessive enthusiasm by the news.
Now having given gold to the victors the time has come to pay the Old Gods a long expected tithe for a great service.
How do you organize the restoration of the Tree of the Dawn Age and what boons do you ask of the Gods?
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OOC: Since you are paying so much and Bloodraven is devoting his full attention to the ceremony, and has prepared for it himself for weeks, you can in this instance ask what boons you want to gain from the overflow of the sacrifice.
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[X] Preparations beforehand
-[X] Have the Children of the Forest, the Leshys, the Treants, Scarbrand, and Reva and Liset all work together in planting a godswood of Weirwoods covering a few dozen acres centering around the Tree of the Dawn Age, essentially making a forest of nothing but Weirwoods.
-[X] Have your druids and the Children of the Forest take the chance to plant rare and unique trees around the island to be grown in full as a side-effect of the island-wide ritual. In particular on the far side of the island plant a small forest of Ironwood Trees that can later be harvested and maintained at your liesure. Also try for as many Goldenheart Trees as you can manage.
-[X] Invite several additional people to witness the ritual.
--[X] Any governors who would like to attend (Amrelath, Relath, Riz'Neth, Wyla, etc.)
--[X] Dalla of the Mountain Clans
--[X] The visiting Thenns
Preliminary vote that needs to happen before we actually start growing the tree.
-[X] Have the Children of the Forest, the Leshys, the Treants, Scarbrand, and Reva and Liset all work together in planting a godswood of Weirwoods covering a few dozen acres centering around the Tree of the Dawn Age, essentially making a forest of nothing but Weirwoods.
-[X] Have your druids and the Children of the Forest take the chance to plant rare and unique trees around the island to be grown in full as a side-effect of the island-wide ritual. In particular on the far side of the island plant a small forest of Ironwood Trees that can later be harvested and maintained at your liesure. Also try for as many Goldenheart Trees as you can manage.
-[X] Invite several additional people to witness the ritual.
--[X] Any governors who would like to attend (Amrelath, Relath, Riz'Neth, Wyla, etc.)
--[X] Dalla of the Mountain Clans
--[X] The visiting Thenns
Preliminary vote that needs to happen before we actually start growing the tree.
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I'm pretty much expecting the Westeros rumour mill having his name written all over it next month by virtue of the ludicrous amounts of power he will have to throw around.
egoo
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@DragonParadox, I think this will help you here:
@Duesal, I think we'll need @Goldfish on this too, to set up an approproately deadly kill-trap for the Mythic Wight if nothing else.
Also, this would be kinda a prome time for anyone to try and attack us, we need full defenses here.
Ahh, I've been waiting for this...
As of this moment, we have 302 sentient beings lardered and ready to be sacrificed to raise the Dawn Age Heart Tree.
And only 58 of them humans (albeit, cultists. How sentient/sapient they are is debateable
Among these sacrifices we have:
A Mythic Ancient WIght Lord we found in Others' place of power, 4 Winterborn Alas we fought beyond the Wall (and who rained ice and shit on poor Bronn), and a Winter Hag we captured in Lannisport - all agents of Others.
A sorcerer Sanguadaemon, captured by us in Tyrosh when preying on children, 16 Lacridaemons, an Erodaemon, 5 Thanadaemons, and 7 Venedaemons - all either captured in Tyrosh, or cleared out after the fight, by Inquisition melticulously going though the region and us summoning. Also 58 human cultists.
3 Div Doru, 2 Div Shira, 4 Div Pairaka, 4 Div Aghash and 1 Div Sepid, once guards, now prisoners, taken during our attack on Brazen Throne's prizon on Plane of Molten Skies.
A door made of Nahyndrian Crystal - crystallized blood of a dead Demon-lord, taken from the very same prison (counts as 20 HD).
1 Tataka Rakshasa captured in Valyria, not expecting us to be as powerful as we were, 2 Common Rakshasa and 4 Fiendish Magmins captured in Lyceos proper.
3 Night Hags that Tor bargained with for knowledge of Shadow Plane, and through whom he came to find Sseth.
A Quartheen Lich, the sand monstuosity that guarded the Red Dragon Orb, by now fully "questioned" by Malarys and others on how the complex worked, and all else that can help us with a Research Action.
9 Flying Chupacabras and 6 Blood Maidens (+2 sorcerer creature ones), captured preying on people of Sothoryos.
4 Xenarths we fought over the Mercury Lake in Plane of Earth, where Sir Richard took on a Hero-killer monster and took it down in rain of blood and gore.
A Malik Sorcerer, 4 Fire Giants and 2 Efreeti captured during an attack on Efreeti in court of Salamander Queen.
7 Steel Devils captured on a ship that was transporting Zathir to Brazen Throne, 2 Silver-Clad Brachinas (one pulled from Mammon's operations in Yi-Ti), 5 Vrocks (one of them our old "friend", whom we are sacrificing a second time), 3 Glided Devils (2 pulled from operations in Yi-Ti), a Harvester Devil that once eluded us before, 32 Imps (and 2 Consulars), 13 Ink Devils, 2 Bone Devils, 2 Aratons, 8 Sand Devils, a Hellcat, 5 Zebubs, 4 Spinagons, an Obsidian Devil - all servants of Mammon, summoned and captured all over Westeros and Essos.
2 Mute Hags captured by Wyla, Waymar and Tyene.
4 Succubi, 16 Schir, 1 Coloxus, 3 Brimoraks, 4 Swaithes, 8 Babau, 3 Nabasu, 8 Hala and 10 Quasits - mostly summoned by the knowledge from the Listener's skull, but many also captured in Lys' mansion, where we fought the lich with the connection to the 15th.
@Duesal, I think we'll need @Goldfish on this too, to set up an approproately deadly kill-trap for the Mythic Wight if nothing else.
Also, this would be kinda a prome time for anyone to try and attack us, we need full defenses here.
egoo
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@DragonParadox, since we can ask what we'd get OOC now... If I did not misunderstood the point of AN here, that is...
Just how much "sacrifice juice" we have thanks to overpaying (2160 HD), and how much of that will OGs raising themselves a Zomok guardian out of those Ancient Green's bones will take?
@Duesal, what exactly you had in mind back then, when you were talking about Hammer of Waters-lite on our staff?
Just how much "sacrifice juice" we have thanks to overpaying (2160 HD), and how much of that will OGs raising themselves a Zomok guardian out of those Ancient Green's bones will take?
@Duesal, what exactly you had in mind back then, when you were talking about Hammer of Waters-lite on our staff?
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Not now. With what I've got as the preliminary preparations that's probably going to take up its own update. I don't see the actual sacrifice happening today.
ryuan
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What kind of security measures we can make for it? Or does our mindblank covers it?
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Shit, I gotta take a look on that. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Honestly, I'd rather raise the Ancient Green himself than a (comparatively) piddly Zomok.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Also Goldenheart.
egoo
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We'll need to drop a Research Action on that, with 15 Progress, that only Dany could take.
So, not a thing we'd be able to afford for a while.
And we kinda need a guardian right now and right here :/
Had the time constraints not been a thing, I'd be all for it.
You guys can assume that things like tree planting have already been done.
It would definitly be best if you did the Wintertouched last
The guardian will cost as much as it would if you could make something like that in the flesh-forge. It has 17 HD.
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I agree, I'd rather try to get the Ancient Green in full.
Also I really wanted the Hammer of the Waters as a Mythic spell on our Runestaff.
Adding.