A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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egoo
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Or maybe we rolled an nat 100 on Djinn reinforcements.
While I am first to doubt this being anything but a way to level the scales, one cannot dismiss us lucking out out of hand.
CandyCoatedChaos
Evil is just misunderstood
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Maybe that is where i am the paranoid pessimist lol, where we rolled a nat 100 on reinforcements... And when it comes time for them to attack their contributions roll a nat 1, and they accidentally blow up half their own ships or something.
I guess i just see this reinforcement as odds likely that something else is going to show up to try and screw us on the other side.
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The fight happens in Valyria. I wouldn't wonder if DP had an encounter table triggered by spells cast, scaled by total spell levels per round or something like that.
CandyCoatedChaos
Evil is just misunderstood
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Thats pretty much what I am afraid of, our party can kick alot of ass and we can plan alot of things but the more variables added in the more likely it is we are going to find unpleasant surprises.
We can make a plan where our squishiest members are as safe as can be and then because our new allies are there boom surprise portal behind your squishes with another CR 20 popping out.
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There's a limit there. Keep in mind that the Brazen Throne is now engaged on two fronts against the Opaline Vault and Armun Kelisk, so they won't be able to send a CR 20 reinforcement on a whim. As for calling a CR 20 fiend... those cost a lot, and pride alone should be enough to keep the Efreeti from begging for more help after they've already hired an Asurendra due to being too scared to do this on their own.
CandyCoatedChaos
Evil is just misunderstood
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- You'd never be able to guess, eh?
That does comfort me slightly, I still feel our nice archmage assistance will simply mean DP will throw something else fun at us at a crucial point.
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Worst case, the apprentice can call his master.
You know Viserys would be there in a moment if one of our people gets in trouble and manages to get a Sending out.
You know Viserys would be there in a moment if one of our people gets in trouble and manages to get a Sending out.
CandyCoatedChaos
Evil is just misunderstood
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Very true... Just a major inconvenience if he is about to crush one of the biggest threats and has to leave to deal with that. You don't just leave a CR 20 fight and hope everything goes smoothly while you are gone.
Interlude in beta.
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Maybe, but I imagine that only happening if we have spectacularly bad luck.
Interlude DXLXXVIII: Worm and Songbirds
Worm and Songbirds
Twenty-Fifth Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC
The hiss of the wind through the sands of Quthresh was as inescapable as the glare of the desert sun. Beyond the small camp the Pech had helped erect in what had once been a town smithy, very little lived among the crimson sands—prickly weeds sharp enough to make a goat's mouth bleed and small scurrying lizards that would dart around looking for shade at the smallest chance, but by far Valeria's favorites were the small dun-colored finches that filled the twilight hours with song. If nothing else she and Lady Saenena had made it so the tiny songbirds now nested among the ruins for perhaps the first time since the desert claimed them. Not that they hadn't paid their way...
Lady Saenena had started using the birds to investigate the old tunnels after more direct divination not only failed, but proved dangerous to cast in the deeper areas of the old tunnels. Truth be told Valeria was not entirely sure why it had worked, whether it had been the local wards recognizing the birds as common local life beneath notice or if the Qartheen mages had simply not considered that someone would use animals to bypass traps and blockages she did not know. The carefully delivered brown mold spores had done the rest, wearing away warding glyphs and breaking the locks the passage of time alone could not break. Still, the finches made better company than a jar full of fungus.
Unfortunately the task of carefully working through the old excavations and the temple below without waking any of the dead guardians interred in eternal vigil had taken the better part of half a month, leaving them with less time than anticipated to question bones and stones, to read through ancient seals, and guess at the means to control the worm coiled around the root of the hill. Much like the sparse life of the desert, the thing had been begotten in a time of drought. Magic had grown ever rarer and the dragonlords drank greedily of what remained, yet the sorcerer lords of Qarth had done their work well. The worm slumbered through the ages, ever vigilant for those who would reclaim the orb, but before the grinding force of entropy all works must one day fail.
By Valeria's reckoning as little as three centuries past the arcane protections of Quthresh had fallen into torpor akin to death from which they must now be called if they were to aid in binding together the divine weapon to strike at the heart of Tiamat the Many-Hued. And therein lay the last tangle they had not yet unraveled, how to awaken the worm without the infusion of magic being itself counted an attack. The worm's creators had never anticipated the situation so now they would have to leave the confines of arcane reconstruction and craft a solution undreamt.
Valeria called and the Wondersmith relished the chance to try. The soft scratching of stylus on parchment joined the faint songs of the finches once again.
The Godhunter Progress 14/16
OOC: I know this was really short, but I did not want to turn a research action into an on screen dungeon, and I feel like this makes for a nice spinet to show how Valeria has grown compared to the other Arcanums.
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A Godhunter... not sure exactly what it does to perform such a task (probably forgotten about wherever it came from - or yet to read it yet) but any weapon with that kind of firepower is a welcome addition to the arsenal. Hopefully, it can hunt more than gods...
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It was designed as a guardian of sorts. If the Red Dragon Wyrm were ever to escape from the Red Orb of Dragonkind while in Quthresh, the gigantic worm was supposed to pin it down and murder it.
egoo
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The name was on me.
As you may find upon looking at the list of Research Actions located in "informational"-threadmarks, I'm shit at naming.
And what Duesal said.
We intend to use it as a scalpel - to cut away at power we want to force Tiamat to overextend, while using the amulet we are empowering with our allied Gods' help to hold her in place for that little stunt.
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So what's the status of the Red Dragon Worm and the Red Orb of Dragonkind now?
egoo
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Next month:
[] Dealing with Golden Company
1) Finish "the Godhunter"-Worm (Valeria).
2) Create a foci from bones of Tiamat's aspect for Dany to counter the last Domain Tiamat has over us ([Dragons] Domain, Crafting RA, 12 Progress).
3) Unwind the spy network of GC in Yi Ti - work with Emperor if needed to capture, but keep it hush-hush until we strike at all Golden Company's forces all at once (High-intrigue companions split between this and Slavers' Bay, that Arcanum that poses as assassin for sure - maybe Teana would be a good fit too).
4) Do our best to scout out the Shadow Plane's Fortress of GC - Anu helped make it, and Shadow!Tor was made to look into it. We have good chances there. And we only need to know actual planning really, so that we can quickly and efficiently storm it when the time is right. (Shadow!Tor, someone from Orphne Court, Anu, etc)
5) Meet with the Yi-Tish General (wannabe Emperor?) GC wanted assassinated - while our own MO on interaction with the place is yet to be decided, at least revealing them as a danger, and maybe getting his non-interference would be good enough. (Viserys)
6) Apply massive Divination budget, Yss, and maybe high-altitude bird-drones (is there a cheap way to gain telescope-like vision?) to track Golden Company's actual forces.
7) Finalise the Snare (empower with the remaining Gods' help: Jazzirian, Old Gods, The Weeping Lady, The Goddess of the Silver Moon, The Merling King (total of gods empowering: 7, with Yss already done).
Am missing anything?
It seems that in an ideal world by the end of the next month, with the above done we should be ready to wipe all their forces out..?
Side notes:
1) fuck Asmodeus' shit up in Slavers Bay (intrigue-companions)
2) Have a trip to PoW-based cities, dissuade Marids from halping Lannisters if possible - look for merks and knowledge against illithids anyway (Viserys+co)
3) Finish Quburn's Research, finish opening the Demon-caller's tome, finish Fey Lore (assuming Lya doesn't this month, likely too).
4) Evacuate Thenns via the spehhs ship.
Hide them in metal bawkses!
Also research Thenn Wards, and then torch the place leaving.
5) Assign a shitload of missions of cleaning up Winter/Evul Fey/shitheaded morons' influence to sub-Companion minions.
6) Meet the Char-Serpent, counter-ambush it's hunters, feed it some Asmodeus' Devils.
[] Dealing with Golden Company
1) Finish "the Godhunter"-Worm (Valeria).
2) Create a foci from bones of Tiamat's aspect for Dany to counter the last Domain Tiamat has over us ([Dragons] Domain, Crafting RA, 12 Progress).
3) Unwind the spy network of GC in Yi Ti - work with Emperor if needed to capture, but keep it hush-hush until we strike at all Golden Company's forces all at once (High-intrigue companions split between this and Slavers' Bay, that Arcanum that poses as assassin for sure - maybe Teana would be a good fit too).
4) Do our best to scout out the Shadow Plane's Fortress of GC - Anu helped make it, and Shadow!Tor was made to look into it. We have good chances there. And we only need to know actual planning really, so that we can quickly and efficiently storm it when the time is right. (Shadow!Tor, someone from Orphne Court, Anu, etc)
5) Meet with the Yi-Tish General (wannabe Emperor?) GC wanted assassinated - while our own MO on interaction with the place is yet to be decided, at least revealing them as a danger, and maybe getting his non-interference would be good enough. (Viserys)
6) Apply massive Divination budget, Yss, and maybe high-altitude bird-drones (is there a cheap way to gain telescope-like vision?) to track Golden Company's actual forces.
7) Finalise the Snare (empower with the remaining Gods' help: Jazzirian, Old Gods, The Weeping Lady, The Goddess of the Silver Moon, The Merling King (total of gods empowering: 7, with Yss already done).
Am missing anything?
It seems that in an ideal world by the end of the next month, with the above done we should be ready to wipe all their forces out..?
Side notes:
1) fuck Asmodeus' shit up in Slavers Bay (intrigue-companions)
2) Have a trip to PoW-based cities, dissuade Marids from halping Lannisters if possible - look for merks and knowledge against illithids anyway (Viserys+co)
3) Finish Quburn's Research, finish opening the Demon-caller's tome, finish Fey Lore (assuming Lya doesn't this month, likely too).
4) Evacuate Thenns via the spehhs ship.
Also research Thenn Wards, and then torch the place leaving.
5) Assign a shitload of missions of cleaning up Winter/Evul Fey/shitheaded morons' influence to sub-Companion minions.
6) Meet the Char-Serpent, counter-ambush it's hunters, feed it some Asmodeus' Devils.
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In our possession and trapped in the orb.
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So what's our game plan should the RDW escape?
egoo
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Worm =/= Ancient Red Dragon.
First is an unknown (but hella powerful) security measure set up by ancient mages, in case dragon breaks out of the orb.
Second is an asshole in a useless bauble - whom we can't even sacrifice to Yss with any surety due to dice roll being only 5/8 to us succeeding - and the dragon of CR 22 is a tad bit touch to face yet.
And if dice fails, we have an asshole dragon on the loose, and the prison alone is worth almost nothing as sacrifice.
G'night all.
We do't have to worry about the Dragon escaping. Pretty sure the whole thing was something of an emergency precaution in case the prison failed. Now that magic is back and the orb remains stable our only concern is what someone else may do with it.
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Do we have any idea who knows about it, and has the desire to free it/the ability to control it not to mention the capability to back this intention up?
Not sure who knows about it, and our problem isn't anyone freeing the dragon, that'd be dumb as hell since it's a Great Wyrm and certainly not guaranteed to be grateful. Our problem would be someone using the Orb of Dragonkind itself.
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Sorry for my ignorance, but what does the Orb of Dragonkind do? (Apart from being a very ominously titled paperweight/office decoration.
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