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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 went back and found the winning vote from last Tuesday where we established what we wanted Tyene and the others to share during the audience. I've added that into my current plan just for the sake of clarity.
 
@Goldfish, a gift of Valyrian Steel weapons? It serves a threefold purpose.

1. It's dead useful, and should be put to use in keeping the emperor alive.
2. It starkly highlights the powerful magics the Imperium has at its disposal.
3. Within one or two months the Grand Expedition Fleet will be arriving at the docs of Yi Ti, and in their cargo is 300 lbs of Valyrian Steel ready to be auctioned. A lot more people will want their own weapon if the emperor himself has a set. It's a big and useful increase in prestige.

Around 8-10 weapons should do the trick.
 
Duesal said:
@Goldfish, a gift of Valyrian Steel weapons? It serves a threefold purpose.

1. It's dead useful, and should be put to use in keeping the emperor alive.
2. It starkly highlights the powerful magics the Imperium has at its disposal.
3. Within one or two months the Grand Expedition Fleet will be arriving at the docs of Yi Ti, and in their cargo is 300 lbs of Valyrian Steel ready to be auctioned. A lot more people will want their own weapon if the emperor himself has a set. It's a big and useful increase in prestige.

Around 8-10 weapons should do the trick.
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Rather than weapons, what about something artistic instead? Maybe a standing mirror with a frame of Valyrian Steel worked with a Dragon motif and highly polished Mithral serving as the mirrored surface?
 
Goldfish said:
Rather than weapons, what about something artistic instead? Maybe a standing mirror with a frame of Valyrian Steel worked with a Dragon motif and highly polished Mithral serving as the mirrored surface?
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I don't see a problem with both. The thing is that artistic stuff is prestigious but not nearly as useful to our goals, so it doesn't quite work as a full replacement to a gift of weapons.
 
[X] Goldfish

It seems like the Imperial Times is going to be one hell of a game-changer for us in Westeros. That and in the home front it should make the more rebellious magisters and lords think twice before doing anything sneaky.
 
Duesal said:
I don't see a problem with both. The thing is that artistic stuff is prestigious but not nearly as useful to our goals, so it doesn't quite work as a full replacement to a gift of weapons.
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Added this to the plan;

-[] Provide Tyene with ten Valyrian Steel weapons of various types, all in common Yi-Ti styles, along with a body length standing mirror framed using Valyrian Steel in a Dragon motif and highly polished Mithral as its surface. Depending on the situation, she will give one or more of the weapons, and/or the mirror as gifts, using her best judgement to determine what is appropriate.
 
Goldfish said:
Added this to the plan;

-[] Provide Tyene with ten Valyrian Steel weapons of various types, all in common Yi-Ti styles, along with a body length standing mirror framed using Valyrian Steel in a Dragon motif and highly polished Mithral as its surface. Depending on the situation, she will give one or more of the weapons, and/or the mirror as gifts, using her best judgement to determine what is appropriate.
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Perfect. :)

Best part about this is the incessant compulsion on the part of the Yi Tish to not only reciprocate but one-up all gifts. :evil:
 
[X] Goldfish

I know this is something that we won't have to worry about for a long time but what should we do with the Red Keep, if we take it intact, when we conquer Westeros? Inquisitor base?
 
Angelazreal1 said:
[X] Goldfish

I know this is something that we won't have to worry about for a long time but what should we do with the Red Keep, if we take it intact, when we conquer Westeros? Inquisitor base?
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First we need to deal with the Elder Evil that Maegor trapped inside it. But once that's settled it works just fine as a base for administration for the Crownlands.
 
Duesal said:
It's a perfectly good castle. It works just fine as some kind of imperial base.

But more to the point, it's not a good idea to mess with Maegor's wards, and/or accidentally free the Elder Evil we still don't know about IC.
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If nothing else it is already warded, thanks to old king Maegor who would not let a little thing like the waning of the tides of magic get in the way of his architectural plans.
 
I wonder if we could use the elder evil to grow a gigantic heart tree.....
 
So do we really want to go in with demands while destabilizing this guys political position. I don't see how these kind of tactics will get us anything we want.

Smacking people around because we can makes the short term easier but the long term harder. I'm all for screwing over enemies, but if a polite conversation will get us better agents, access to the Azure Emperor's supporters, and -eventually - better loot , why waste the opportunity?

Obviously we don't want to come off as an inferior, but showing up and demanding equal standing to the guy in the chair right off the bat is a bad idea.

How would we have responded if the Sultana has walked into one of our public audiences and started making cutting little comments in how quaint it was? What if she followed up by running around the empire collect commercial and magical contacts while hunting her enemies in our boarders?

We would almost certainly start plotting, and start looking for weakness. Even if we couldn't make anything stick, we wouldn't stop and whatever we did do would be time for maximum damage.

Civility costs nothing and avoids setting the board up for this kind of conflict. If we can't stand to even imply he stands higher than us we should avoid the question entirely by working through intermediaries.

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BronzeTongue said:
So do we really want to go in with demands while destabilizing this guys political position. I don't see how these kind of tactics will get us anything we want.

Smacking people around because we can makes the short term easier but the long term harder. I'm all for screwing over enemies, but if a polite conversation will get us better agents, access to the Azure Emperor's supporters, and -eventually - better loot , why waste the opportunity?

Obviously we don't want to come off as an inferior, but showing up and demanding equal standing to the guy in the chair right off the bat is a bad idea.

How would we have responded if the Sultana has walked into one of our public audiences and started making cutting little comments in how quaint it was? What if she followed up by running around the empire collect commercial and magical contacts while hunting her enemies in our boarders?

We would almost certainly start plotting, and start looking for weakness. Even if we couldn't make anything stick, we wouldn't stop and whatever we did do would be time for maximum damage.

Civility costs nothing and avoids setting the board up for this kind of conflict. If we can't stand to even imply he stands higher than us we should avoid the question entirely by working through intermediaries.

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And that's why we are working through intermediaries. See the leading vote.
 
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