Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
I'll take Shadowcaster 20 and peace out of Planetos just as quickly as I possibly can. Armun Kelisk seems like a nice place to live.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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- Germany
Best offer by far.
Healing, damage, flight, all far before other mages rise.
And the utility from Adept-Invocation together with the combat-power from the breath-effects makes it much better.
I would have to trick with feats to get some social skills for the Dragon Shaman, enhanced by the Aura, but that's okay. I can retrain those feats later once Adept gives me socials as class-skills.
At that time I could quickly go to Westeros and try and secure some of the dragon eggs, maybe they haven't fully fosilized yet?
In fact getting Stone to Flesh would be one of the bigger challenges, I'd propably have to work out a ritual to de-stone since there are no Wizards to casually cast it around.
Anyway, by the time Viserys awakens (if he exists at all), the reign of dragons will be fact of life for most of Westeros and Western Essos.
All hail the Dark Queen!
- Location
- Argentina
Find the Gith and train to become a monk, obviously.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Assuming the Slaad don't find you first and implant their tadpoles in your body to serve as an incubator...
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- Argentina
Assuming the Slaad don't find you first and implant their tadpoles in your body to serve as an incubator...
It's Limbo. It is a huge coin toss. I mean, it's the place of randomness itself.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Assuming that I don't become a Slaad tadpole incubator, I could live with the Unchained Monk 20 option. The Githzerai are tolerable Unchained Monk isn't bad at all.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
I will take this option, I'm going to set out for Westeros immediately, as I'm going to need allies for the fight against the Bloodstone Emperor, and some Heart Trees seem a perfect way to get started on that.
It's going to be a long hard battle, and there's no guarantee I will win, but this choice seem the one that gives me the best chance of winning, in a way that wont make me hate myself.
- Location
- France
You know, those silver-haired humans who have more dragonblood than anyone else?
I always assumed that they were descended from Silverbrow Humans. Tiamat is giving you a body that was born with more of the old, dragontouched blood (that's why she has such an easy access to it), and so it's a full silverbrow human with the feather fall SLA and everything, and not just the dragonblood subtype or whatever Targaryens and other people of Valyrian descent have.
Basically Silverbrow human has Disguise as a class skill, feather fall, and in exchange lose the +1 skill point humans get.
Will you try to get there through the Shadow Plane where the Bloodstone Emperor is already mighty? Or do you have some other clever way of escaping the Plane?
Note that 100 years before Viserys was born, there were probably still unhatched un-stoned eggs going around.
On the other hand, I didn't expect you to be so gung-ho about ushering in the rule of the Bitch Queen.
You are correct though : that one is indeed an amazing offer. It has great healing, cool abilities, and is tough and competent enough is most forms of combat. All it lacks are stealth and socials, and you can use feats for that until Dragonfire Adept comes online with its excellent socials and stealth !
Sadly, just like Monk, it lacks the potential for truly amazing magic.
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Dunno for sure. Might try to find and free that Mirror Mephit Viserys and company released after offing Damphair. It might have the juice to get me to the Plane of Air even before magic fully reawakens.
- Location
- Germany
That's what I was hoping for, but the last dragon died almost 50 years ago, so I won't bet on it.
How hard can it be to make one tiny ritual with the skills of a level 20 character anyway?
Worst case I'll have to make sacrifices to grandma for some additional lore.
Well, mostly the rule of Dragons.
Remember that those creatures are not too big on gratitude.
I bet once there is a decent population of dragons most of them want to do nothing more than basic appeasement for the Bitch Queen.
Her power will wax by the rule of dragons, but she can never rule through them, not for long at least.
- Location
- Brazil
Laugh in his face. Mountebank!
Potentially interesting, maybe.
Strongest class, but I'm fucked no matter what in the end? He will eventually die.
Betray him to the dragon. I know for a fact I own my soul, not him. Even if by some convoluted means I do go to hell after a bomb goes off in my chest or something, Raise Dead is there for that.
A somewhat reasonable set up? Wonder of wonders.
Not killing BR.
Max ranks in Concentration and a lot of prayer?
Silverbrow is essentially "dragon seed".
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- Germany
[X] Introduce Ser Renly to the Orphne King
-[X] Explain to the Orphne King that Renly has discovered he is in fact a Changeling and wishes to venture into the Feywild to learn the fate of the boy he replaced years ago. We need the services of a knowledgeable guide who can assist Renly in his quest.
-[X] Explain to the Orphne King that Renly has discovered he is in fact a Changeling and wishes to venture into the Feywild to learn the fate of the boy he replaced years ago. We need the services of a knowledgeable guide who can assist Renly in his quest.
Interlude in beta.
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- ?????????
[X] Introduce Ser Renly to the Orphne King
-[X] Explain to the Orphne King that Renly has discovered he is in fact a Changeling and wishes to venture into the Feywild to learn the fate of the boy he replaced years ago. We need the services of a knowledgeable guide who can assist Renly in his quest.
-[X] Explain to the Orphne King that Renly has discovered he is in fact a Changeling and wishes to venture into the Feywild to learn the fate of the boy he replaced years ago. We need the services of a knowledgeable guide who can assist Renly in his quest.
- Location
- Chicago
[X] Goldfish
- Location
- France
You're thinking like a D&D player with access to all classes. But Mountebank is actually the class with the best skills and mobility (Teleport, move action Dimension Door + attack) in all the choices here, you know? It also has Blasphemy and Horrid Wilting SLAs from Half-Fiend (+ insane stats), and it comes with Alter Self + Outsider nature for combat. It's very good at assassinating people.
Conveniently, assassinating Kings and Emperor grants it Warlock levels, and a mere Warlock 1 is enough to get Hide in Plain Sight. From then on Warlock is great, becoming by far the best crafter choice here.
Honestly, IMO the main weaknesses of this were "where will I find enough Kings to avoid having to pick fights with Fey Kings? Which strategy should I be picking to maximise the number of Kings on this Plane?" and "holy shit my boss is Asmodeus, how can I escape? Where can I get Mind Blank + Unravelling?"
You're a level 20 divine caster, and you're saying you can't make him immortal?
Or are you simply admitting defeat just because your enemies include multiple eldritch abominations and Elder Evils?
Brave, but ultimately (probably) the correct choice. Make yourself decently powerful before doing the betrayal and make sure Viserys likes you, and he'll probably fetch your soul from Hell just to add you to the loot pile !
I mean, it's reasonable in the sense that your only problem is "My abilities are focused around the Shadow Plane where the Bloodstone Emperor is mighty, and the Bloodstone Emperor starts off interested in me personally"
That's still a fairly huge problem, IMO. Perhaps less huge than for the Shugenja option, but not exactly "reasonable"
Based.
That's actually really funny though.
Interlude DXLXXII: Truth in Wine Told
Truth in Wine Told
Nineteenth Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC
The sorts of people who joined the Cult of Zagreus could be divided in two, Mia had found. On the one hand you have the rich nobles with too much time and too little work on their hands looking for some intoxicant or other debauchery to tickle their jaded palette, and on the other you had young men and women, they were always young, with nothing left to barter away but themselves, slipping through the cracks where not even the whorehouses could catch them. Standing in the modest entrance hall of House Atrenys of Tyrosh for the first time she had encountered someone in the middle, even if they were not technically present.
"Pardon me for asking, but why is Jaelys' disappearance an Inquisition matter, Wisdom?" Lady Lara Atrenys asked, a faint tremble in her voice. She was related to one of the slave traders who were killed right after the conquest, the young inquisitor recalled from the file she had gone through a few hours ago. Probably not connected, but it payed to keep such connections in mind just the same.
"You reported to the Lawmen in the days leading up to your daughter's vanishing she was behaving erratically—bouts of rage, sleeplessness, crying and... ah... inappropriate advances interspersed with listlessness sleep so deep she could not be woken from, correct?" Mia asked in return.
Lord Atrenys was giving his wife a look of silent horror. He probably had not known that she had reported the incident with the footmen. Of course, if she had not done that the report would have likely never have ended up drawing the interest of the Inquisition and the girl's best chance to be found would have been lost.
"My lord, the contents of such reports is only shared under official circumstances and would never become the subject of low gossip. The King himself would take very poorly to any of his investigators embarrassing a member of the nobility in such a way." Privately Mia suspected the King would take it just as poorly if a scullery maid or field-hand suffered the same fate, but she doubted that would be something this particular member of the Tyroshi aristocracy would be willing to believe.
"They had better," the man growled.
Mia's polite smile did not waver, the threat passing her like a leaf blown in the wind. "The report also states Jaelys showed signs of improvement right before she vanished. She was able to attend two garden parties almost without incident, but on the second of these she was found to have smuggled in what was thought to have been strongwine of some sort. She became agitated when it was taken away, but upon arriving home the flask contained only water."
"It was only water," the lord snorted. "My wife was distraught and not thinking clearly."
"It is my belief that it was not," the young inquisitor interjected. Producing a simple clay bowl and a water skin from her bag she poured the water inside for the two to see, then intoned the words of a spell in the tongue of air. Clarity and intoxication both... Sure enough the water turned to rich red wine, not the best vintage certainly, but drinkable. Presumably a cultist of a god who favored intoxicants could do better. "That wine grants sharpness of mind to the drinker," she explained. "But the transmutation is not permanent. My work will last an hour, but even the King or Lady Lya could not manage more than three, so someone must have passed Jaelys the wine shortly before you left for the garden party."
"But... whoever that was must have been trying to help then, right?" the lady asked.
Mia briefly struggled against the unprofessional urge to roll her eyes. "Given that they were dosing her with it in secret we can assume it was the same party that poisoned or enchanted your daughter, trying to allay suspicions so that she may then continue down the same path."
"Enchanted? Who did this? Who would dare work magic..." There was anguish beside the anger in Lord Atrenys' words. He was finally starting to understand the gravity of the situation, as his wife had done at the sight of the Inquisition badge.
"We do not know yet," the inquisitor lied smoothly. She would not trust either of them to keep their mouths shut, and given how hard it had been to find any clear leads about the darker doings of the Cult of Zagreus she was not going to risk spooking them now when they finally had proven magic connected with a serious crime. "I would like a list of everyone your daughter was in contact with a full two hours before she left the house, as well as access to her rooms."
"Yes, of course," the lord replied at once.
OOC: Some more law enforcing investigation to go with all the foreign spywork.
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tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Lets try a different challenge form of challenge, you end up at quest start, you are a commoner 1, you have the potential to retrain with the right trainer, but until then you will just be gaining Commoner levels, to make up for this, you get the WBL of a level 20 character in items of your choice, the only limit is no infinite loop items, and nothing that can allow you to change your class, you start on the coast of Sothoryos.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Made a few edits to the chapter, DP.
Might have missed some stuff, as I'm laying in bed using my Kindle. My dog is asleep and has my arm pinned down. It's starting to go numb.
- Get something that can cast demiplane, a ring of sustenance and a item that can signal passing ships (light or illusion seems the best bet).
- Since I would not trust anyone who might show up on the coast of Sothoryos to deal fairly I would also grab some stealth options (at will invisibility and silence should do) and stow away on their ships
- Rinse and repeat until I get to what passes for Planetosi civilization
Wouldn't you just have a item to planeshift and teleport to the genie city.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
I, for one, want to raise a Heart Tree on top of his fountain still.
I can't care less about his faith, this cult but gives us a reason to prohibit him officially, a proof of Westhaven being his doing.
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Yeah, but then I am someone with a king's ransom in loot in a place where practically anyone could kill me in a an instant. CG city or not that is a bit too tempting.