A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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No? The serpent features come when you get a personal enhancement, like a boost to an ability score or an SLA or something. And even then there's no guarantee of getting serpentine features. Example -- Viserys has a permanent SLA to Greater Teleport to Sothoryos whenever he wants, and he doesn't have a single physical alteration.
Yss should be entirely capable of only facilitating the rebirth of the divine bull without actually altering it.
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Part MMCMVI: Gifts Awaited and Unbidden
Gifts Awaited and Unbidden
Twenty-Eighth Day of the Ninth Month 293 AC
As you weigh the advantages and the risks of the dark king's offer it becomes obvious this is not a choice you should make alone. Garin had already been named in the discussion and indeed he is most equipped to deal with matters of the Inquisition, and so the three of you sit around a table, the Keyholder turned spy, the sorcerer turned dragon, and the fey king who would be an agent of a mortal realm.
Perhaps unsurprisingly Garin's first position is to agree with your dismissal of separate 'orders' of the Inquisition. Some measure of factionalism is inevitable, but that does not mean it aught to be encouraged anymore than one would cultivate weeds in one's garden. Secondly he also argues for 'seeding' the retinues of fey lords with mortal subordinates, chosen by them of course, but with an eye to understanding those concerns of mortality that most elude the deathless fey.
The Orphne King nods in acceptance of the offer easily, leading you to suspect he had expected something of the sort, perhaps even welcomed it. The best concessions after all are the ones that cost little, or even those that are not concessions at all.
"Speaking of a mortal perspective," you pick up the thread of conversation, "a span of months might as well be the blink of an eye for your kindred, and even the passage of years might pass like a pleasant afternoon beneath the shaded canopy of an old oak tree. It is not so for men, whose time is limited and thus spent to a more frantic beat. We do not wish the Inquisition, a new organization which is still in the process of establishing itself, to be overwhelmed by an infusion of fey manners and customs before it can fully develop its own, Your Grace," you offer the kingly courtesy to the Lord of the Orphne for perhaps the final time.
"How many moon turns seem a reasonable span, then?" The question seems idle, though it is anything but. It is after all only reasonable for him to try and build up his influence as it is for you to set limits upon it, though in the end you are allies where it matters most.
"Four months, or a trimester as you have doubtless heard it said among those who serve the Iron Bank," Garin interjects smoothly. "The first can offer his pledge on the morrow if they so wish."
For a moment there is silence, then the fey lord nods and proclaims: "So it shall be." Though the words are scarce louder than a whisper all in the hall hear them. All look to him as he takes off his crown and speaks his vows. A vassal's vows he speaks aloud, though it is not simple words he gives, for the fey above all else understand the virtue of such theater. When the last word is spoken the crown simply melts into the shadows of his cloak, leaving his hands empty once again, though in a year's time to bear an Inquisitor's badge.
Gained Vassalage of the Court of the Orphne
Lost 500 lbs. of Adamantine
The mortal lords and ladies do their best not to be caught staring, though you know each and every one of them have adjusted their own calculations accordingly.
It is only later when your newest Inquisitor has departed that you realize that not only do you still not know his name, but you also have nothing to call him by now that he is king no more. "If we do not find out in the meantime I'd like to know a year from now what he signs himself by," you whisper to Garin, smiling slightly both at the situation and at your good fortune to have so painlessly.
The smile only grows as the Sealord presents you with the last gift of the evening, the two dragon eggs he had promised months ago as part of Braavos' own deal to gain as much as it could from swearing fealty. The first is azure-blue and sea-green, the hues changing with every motion even in the steady magelight, and the second ash-grey with specks of red and gold like the last dying embers of some old flame, or perhaps the first sparks of a new one.
Gained 2 Valyrian Dragon Eggs
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As midnight nears you travel back to Wind House to see if there are any strange or cursed objects the Silver Eye would wish to divest itself of one final time now that they will become agents of your Inquisition. There are but two, one a book wrapped in slick leather with a single disembodied human eye set in the center of the cover, and the second is what looks to be a transparent strand of silk that has to be pinned down in order not to strangle any living thing. Unfortunately cursed is all it is leading you to simply burn it.
By contrast the book for all its macabre seeming opens at your merest touch, to reveal the page upon page of dream-wrought script, dangerous lore to be sure, born of the Far Realm, but nothing attacks your mind.
"How did you find this?" you ask Alysande, setting the book aside for a moment.
"A lunatic was sacrificing minor fey to it, but it gave a terrible scream that made it easy to track."
Could it have been trying to protect readers from its contents? You wonder, startled. It would not be wholly unprecedented of course. Perhaps you should hand it to Xor.
Gain potentially non-malicious tome of Far Realm Lore
What do you do next?
[] Take some time off with your friends
[] Speak with Zherys about the political situation in Volantis while also sharing what you have learned in Heaven's Shore
[] Write in
OOC: And that will be the end of free Silver Eye loot, not because I do not like you guys having loot, but because free loot is bad for the quest and does little more than clog up the research list which is rather busy to say the least.
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- Brazil
Sounds like a Tzeentchian scheme.
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- Germany
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- He/Him
Don't we usually sacrifice cursed items?
Tease enough so a reader is enticed to go looking further, you mean?
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Fair enough, and it's not like with Orphne now vassalised (and under direct need to look into this sort of stuff) and Inquisition soon to be established in Braavos, there would be as much random magical shit flying around as was before.
...I also appreciate the sentiment.
That Falxugon will be turned to our service in the background then, I assume?
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Yeah, I'm kind of confused there. The Old Gods take those items.
Also @DragonParadox, now that Braavos is officially ours, as background fluff can we just rule that they now break their cursed items in front of their weirwoods for their own shinies?
From the last time I spotted the discussion I was not sure if you guys wanted to to it so I would be more comfortable with a vote.
It was more trouble than it was worth. CL less than 1
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Alright then! You should have mentioned that before I became as sleepy as I am now!
Get the same answer for Falxugon I had the last time, then!
[X] Try to recruit the Harvester Devil
-[X] egoo is too sleepy for legalise, can someone else write-up decently paranoid terms of service?
-[X] Do not try recruiting the Imps - after having thought about it, they promise to be too unreliable to be of any significant use in your service.
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- florida
So. Heavens broken time.
I was thinking of sharing it with three groups.
The inquisition. (They have to know to do their jobs)
The scholarium. (They will find out on their own eventually.)
The last group is far less... Critical? Than the other two.
I want to tell the temples. Especially the good ones. Their jobs, and that they work together is even more important now.
I was thinking of sharing it with three groups.
The inquisition. (They have to know to do their jobs)
The scholarium. (They will find out on their own eventually.)
The last group is far less... Critical? Than the other two.
I want to tell the temples. Especially the good ones. Their jobs, and that they work together is even more important now.
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- United States
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- United States
@Goldfish, the bolded and highlighted gear should be in the armory.
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- florida
And next month is only going to be busier.
[] Take some time off with your friends
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
PM me the list so I don't forget?
I also need to update the armory to account for munitions expended by the Wyverns, scrolls used, etc.
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- Philippines
Lol, he was talking about Jon... Arryn
Welcome to GRRM's greatest trolling ever! Same names everywhere!
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Done, to sacrifice with him.
~54.35+ Tier-3 Heart Trees.
Old Gods will piss themselves in happiness.
I think, this is the point at which we start growing one in ever settlement of ours, no matter the size.
(I joke. We need at least ~200 Trees-equivalent for throwing them around that freely, imo)
Damn it, why.
What's the point of me writing up MAs in a way that they'd be done in the background, if they end up being pushed through on-screen?
And that after me being asked to add one to next month?
Also, what, are we really skipping turning Falxugon, @Everyone ?
Really?
Because I won't push for him, Imps, or whatever any longer than this month.
From 10th onwards, consider him forever forgotten by me.
Just lardered and awaiting sacrifice, I don't care that much about him. My duty as MA-pusher is done on that.
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