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

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I don't remember what the situation is and what the thread decided to do about it, so it would be dishonest to vote.
 
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That might help because as far as I was aware the golden company was in Essos and Varys didn't have direct contact with them but that's probably a failure at reading comprehension on my part so I'm lost.

Edit: re-reading the plan and the update I gather that the attack and the conclave are separate issues, in that case I don't have anything specific against Goldfish's plan but I wonder if it's worth it to send the Erinyes out, either the enemies are inside their manse or they're going to and from it.
Maybe it would be more optimal to tell them to ambush potential isolated elements if they can do it quick and surreptitiously.

Beyond that I don't know if observing while being prepared to attack at any moment is a good idea, i'd rather focus on stealth or attack preparations instead of fraying nerves and splitting focus.
 
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megamiaouh said:
That might help because as far as I was aware the golden company was in Essos and Varys didn't have direct contact with them but that's probably a failure at reading comprehension on my part so I'm lost.
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Last month after we napped Varys and had Bloodraven dig through his brain, we learned about a lot of the Spider's current plots and plans. As a part-time Tiamat minion, he was working with the Golden Company and Illyrio Mopatis to discredit us in Westeros and abroad.

One of those plans was to frame us for an assassination attempt on someone during the upcoming Conclave of the Faith in Old Town this month. The mages employed by the Golden Company/Illyrio/Tiamat faction cludged together a barely passable Darkenbeast-like creature to use in the assassination, which would then be used as proof of our connection to the attempt.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Goldfish on Apr 22, 2019 at 4:01 AM, finished with 60 posts and 8 votes.
  • [X] Plane Stake Out
    -[X] Determine which town homes nearest the Golden Company's base are currently occupied and which are vacant.
    --[X] Quietly and carefully setup a temporary observation base in the best candidate among the surrounding town homes. If one directly adjacent to the Golden Company base can be acquired without alerting them to our presence, do so even if it is occupied; residents will be cast into enchanted slumber and their memories modified, if necessary. From this observation post, we will monitor the comings and goings of the Golden Company members in Old Town while waiting for the rest of them, especially the more powerful mage, to return from whatever errand they are on.
    --[X] Viserys, Waymar, Richard, and Lya, along with a pair of Erinyes, will maintain the observation post.
    ---[X] Should it prove necessary, Lya will be prepared to immediately drop a Forbiddance ward on the Golden Company's base and the town homes surrounding it, along with the ground beneath it to a depth of at least sixty feet and the air above it to a similar distance, using her Inspired Spell Mythic Power while Viserys uses his Wild Arcana Mythic power to duplicate the effects of a Mirage Arcana spell on the area to temporarily hide the effects of combat from the Lantern Bearers and others within the city.
    --[X] While the Golden Company is being observed, four teams of three Erinyes each will be surreptitiously scouting the surrounding neighborhoods and places determined most likely to contain more of our prey. If any are found, they will contact Viserys before taking further action, either to follow their quarry or to subdue them.
    [X] Dywen enters the battlefield
    -[X] Dywen and Bee (his apprentice) appears before the house loudly challenging those who dare make a mockery of the work of the gods.
    -[X] Use only plant based spells to subdue them and the fake darkenbeast
    -[X] When confronted, were here for the conclave
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DragonParadox said:
Great omake @Crake One can practically feel poor Dernys being puled in two directions between his common sense and his attraction to Arianne. There's a certain element of courtly love to it which I suspect appeals to him in no small measure, but even beyond that the sheer detail he is putting into the letter hints that he is developing feelings for her (and not just the usual feelings of lust) Arianne engenders in most of those who catch her eye. I doubt he would be going into that sort of detail about his friends' actions otherwise.

The alchemy details are interesting as a contrast between Waymar (who is skilled at alchemy but ultimately a magic knight) and Denys to whom alchemy is a passion.
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I find it most funny that we're all so inured to general PC craziness and oddness that no one saw fit to comment on all of the things in the letter that would make people blink in confusion. Like the matter of fact comment about "deciding to forgo sleep".

Or having no clue who's been leaving him meals (implying that the Misfits didn't hire a cook).
 
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Part MMDCCLXXXIX: Fearful Whispers, Deadly Malice
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    • Fearful Whispers, Deadly Malice ​

    Fifth Day of the Ninth Month 293 AC

    There are six houses from which one can technically observe the manse where the Golden Company infiltrators have set up their base, two of them so poorly placed behind fireplum trees and creeping rosebushes that one would be ill-suited to watch any of the doors. Leto is quick to point out that an arrow through the windows will serve just as well, but that is not your purpose here. Instead you set your sights on the remaining four manses. Less than a shadow in starlight you are as you pass through stone, a specter of sorcery conjured, the world leached of color. Unfortunately none of the manses are conveniently empty, nor isolated enough that you would lightly risk casting the inhabitants into enchanted slumber.

    Bright-liveried footmen rush through on their masters' errands, maids in faded grey dresses work to set flowers, dust away the cobwebs, and make the windows sparkle in preparation for the conclave, and even the gardeners seem rushed as they trim the trees and flowers. The morning has an air of anticipation veiling uncertainty as rumors about the various delegations and their positions fly from one to the other.

    "Did you hear about Septon Kyle? They say he kept two mistresses... two, and that he is not right behind his holiness waving the Seven-Pointed Star. It's not right I tell you..."

    "...stuff and nonsense. That's probably what that old fool Naron from Highgarden wants you to believe. The Tyrell's court fool is what he is, not a septon at all."

    "I heard that there will be miracle-workers. Septa Danelle..."

    "Sorcerers the lot of them, probably using the blood of honest men. She's just that Northerner's whore is what I heard..."

    Unseen you pass from hall to hall observing master and servant, child and parent, until you have some grasp of the four villas you might use to keep an eye on your foes. The news is not the best you might have hoped for. The first manse belongs Ser Moryn Tyrell, Lord Commander of the City Watch of Oldtown. Not only do you spot freshly carved wards in the loping fey manner along the door frames, but even if you could lull the entire household into enchanted slumber you suspect the Lantern Bearers would be quick indeed to check on them.

    So you cross the cobbled paths under the sweet-smelling preach trees into the manse looking in on your quarry from the south. The townhouse of Lord Robert Shermer is considerably less lively than that of the Lord Commander, an air of grim malaise hangs from the eaves like the shadows of lingering night. It does not take you long to learn that the lord has been long ailing and thrice called for a septon to perform last rites. Rather than rumors of miracle-workers none dare even whisper of magic here.

    "Father is being called to the Seven, Elys. I will not have some foul witchcraft dirty his way!" An angry voice rings out through an oaken door as you pass.

    You only just get out of the way in time to avoid knocking into a young woman rushing from the room in tears, leaving behind the bearded knight who had been speaking. Intrigued you follow along on silent steps. The woman speaks to the head footman... biding him to travel to 'Master Lormar's house', the very same house you had been set to watch, to search for a healer. It seems your foes have not been as quiet as they could have been if they are playing at that game. Perhaps that will be your chance to capture someone. You glance deeper upon the scene, to see if the lady is warded... she is not, but much worse, for she and the servant are enthralled.

    Backtracking quickly you look for the knight. He too is likewise snared. Is someone working to ensure the lord dies? The Golden Company or some other more tangled intrigue?

    Shaking off the question for now you head for the third house only to be greeted by a thankfully sleepy merchant's household. The attic is filled with last century's furnishing under a deep carpet of dust, but the widows give a good view of 'Master Lormar's house' so there you set up shop together with Waymar, Ser Richard, Lya and Vee. Two of the Furies are called to add their sight to the task while more of their sisters spread out on the streets of Oldtown seeking to discover how the Golden Company mages gained their reputation for healing.

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    Over the next few hours you see no one go in or out of the manse you are watching, the very fact uncommon in of itself on the busy streets, but it is Leto who makes the greater discovery. "Supposedly this 'Lormar' had dealings with the Smith's Sept down the river, selling candles and incense, so I had one of my sisters look in on that and found rather more than she was expecting. The septon there had been replaced with one of the Many-Headed Queen's demons, a dragon-skinned fiend of a crimson coat. I suspect the whole sept has been reconsecrated to Her service. I also suspect the Golden Company have not been so much recruiting as converting the locals to serve as their eyes and hands."

    Uncharacteristically Waymar curses under his breath. While it has been long indeed since he could have been called a faithful son of the Seven Who Are One, the desecration of a sept is not something he can ignore.

    "So we probably have a full fledged cult of Tiamat, probably centered on the Smith's Sep," Lya muses. "Most of those who pray there would be artisans and craftsmen, the sort of people the Golden Company's artificer-mages could be of great help to..."

    "So the question now is do we try to cut off the head of the snake, or try to nibble on its scales to better to get a taste for it..."

    What do you do?

    [] Investigate the enthrallment in the Shermer townhouse
    -[] Write in how

    [] Investigate the cult of Tiamat at the Smith's Sept
    -[] Write in how

    [] Keep watching the manse, looking for an opportunity to take a prisoner
    -[] Write in conditions/precautions

    [] Write in

    OOC: You guys rolled into the middle of an interesting web.
     
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    • Can we split up? Maybe contact that one guy who we met before? You know, when we dealt with the maester who decided to poison his lord?
     
    DragonParadox said:
    The septon there had been replaced with one of the Many Headed Queen's demons, a dragon skinned fiend of crimson coat.
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    Well well well, looks like we'll be filling the Larder quicker than I expected.

    So do we skin this one, tree him, or toss him in the fungus forge? Or better yet, do we save him for when we get a flesh forge and chuck him into that?

    Decisions, decisions...
     
    Pretty sure if we take this to him we might be able to get his order involved and actually start fighting Tiamat's influence. Also the fact that someone is enthralled and the Drakenbeast they have it is likely that we can get the golden company listed as a persona non grata
     
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    Which reminds me again, Baelor the Blessed as a powerful angel spend his time in the middle of nowhere guarding some sept.
    He could have beaten sense and preached nonsense in all these heads in the short time he existed, but no he guarded some sept to foild Bloodraven-plot #152 while letting the other 1000 run rampant. and didn't even succede at that.

    That guy pisses me off even in hindsight.
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    ... @DragonParadox, since Baelor was both sacrificed and absorbed by the Old Gods can we assume Bloodraven got all his information?

    Where are the various artifacts of the Seven in Prime Material, who has them, and what do they do? Kind of like that artifact of the Crone that Danar Crowl stole that we still never learned what was done with it.
     
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    ... @DragonParadox, since Baelor was both sacrificed and absorbed by the Old Gods can we assume Bloodraven got all his information?

    Where are the various artifacts of the Seven in Prime Material, who has them, and what do they do? Kind of like that artifact of the Crone that Danar Crowl stole that we still never learned what was done with it.
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    While Baelor's power was consumed his death scream ensured the Old Gods learned nothing from him.
     
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    Hm... looks like we will need a while to fix this mess.
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    Thoughts on alerting the Lantern Bearers to some of these latest discoveries?

    [X] Azel

    We have one contact within the organization we can try to communicate with if we wish to maintain greater anonimity.
     
    If we tell them about the Sept they are going to try storming the place, you know. Which will have predictable results, given it's been reconsecrated to Tiamat.

    And hell no to telling them about the little Darkenbeast Frankenstein.
     
    I don't have time to come up with a plan.

    We should be able to clear out the Sept with a minimum of fuss.
     
    I'm also at work ATM.

    Hm.

    I wouldn't mind taking it to the lantern bearers.

    A Sept going up in fire and demons would be a blow to an already near crippled reputation.
     
    [X] Honesty and Deception
    -[X] Look for the nearest Lanternbearers to contact, cheack via Vee's Belt if Tiamat has spies/surveillance on the cell you are contacting
    --[X] Keep the story close to the truth, you (Dywen) have tracked down the activities of a foe and evil goddess down and happened on a corrupted Sept. They can confirm the demonic influence there for themselves, we can't expect blind trust here.
    --[X] Now you obviously want plotting demons dead, but you can't burn down a sept shortly before the big conclave here, because sparking a new wave of anti-OG crusading is the last thing you want. You need their men and legitimiacy here.
    -[X] Offer your help in storming the sept once everything is confirmed (use Cloak of Khyber to improve the disguise, keep to spells under level 6 and don't use too much fire) and bring Lya in an OG-related disguise, similarly limiting herself.
    -[X] At the same time the Sept is attacked the rest of the Party and the Erynies attack the mansion with the agents and likely the Darkenbeast, kill everyone inside they can't capture and burn it all down to reduce evidence

    Something like this?
     
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