- Location
- United States
That's a very neat find. Those would make great air bases.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Huh. We could apply unguent of timelessness to get +2 to Cha checks for a year.
So is city wide coverage viable? It says that's in the plane of air and it's like 10 foot diameter in the Material. I'm pretty sure with our advantage sin plant crafting that's not really much of a limit. Giant scented breeze machines that could potentially guard again toxic gases. I like the Lotus and Sanamander Orchids too.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: No.
We can do it to any one city, maybe multiple, but making it a matter of course probably not very.
Of course like any civic or military improvement, it takes time to roll out.
They do not, they only have a direct effect on alchemy.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
To heck with it, I pick Rickon Stark, he's so young that he wont be going out and getting in danger for years to come, which mean I get to enjoy having minor magical powers for years before I risk losing them, and by the time he's ready to adventure, the Starks should be powerful enough that he will be resurrected if he dies.
He get to be a Favored Soul, as I want healing powers, even 1 level of healing is really nice to have.
Edit. Actually I don't think he was born at quest start, if that's the case I change my pick, to whatever infant child of a major lord I can.
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- Location
- Australia
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
That sounds like a problem with your government not with your tax rate, as I said Denmark has higher tax rates, yet it's one of the best countries in the world to live in
- Location
- France
10/10, a clever plan. May I suggest simply picking Sansa or something, if Rickon is too young? Or Bran? That way you get Bloodraven invested in keeping him alive, it should stretch out your powers for much longer and even help him level.
And picking Daenerys is cheating, by the way
I mean, check out the countries used as examples. They're basically case studies for institutional disasters.
But I also chuckled at the original comments. 30% tax rate is fairly normal (even small! The base tax is 28%, and then there are social contributions, etc) for small businesses in my country - it's only the super-rich who really get out of taxes.
Vote closed.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Picking Sansa is risky, she's unlikely to seek out danger yes, but she's old enough that she could seek out danger, and she's young enough that her personality isn't set in stone.10/10, a clever plan. May I suggest simply picking Sansa or something, if Rickon is too young? Or Bran? That way you get Bloodraven invested in keeping him alive, it should stretch out your powers for much longer and even help him level.
And picking Daenerys is cheating, by the way
Also I'm not worried about Rickon being too young, I just don't remember if he was conceived at story start, and I can't really pick a person that don't exist now can I?
I want to pick a newly born baby from a major house, that should give me maximum time, before my pick face any form of danger.
That was kind of my point, that their countries problems don't show a problem with high taxes, it show a problem with bad governments.
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Interlude DXLXXXVII: Of Veils and Visions
Of Veils and Visions
Twenty Sixth Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC
Hermetia Aerebalys had never been particularly tempted by a conjurer's arts in her time in the Scholarum. It was hard enough reading the desires of ordinary mortal people and making use of them in places they would not resent nor grow restless in, nevermind deathless spirits from beyond the borders of the world. But the Vaerosiea of Tempest Isle was nothing if not curious, a fact that had lead her through the many strange sorrows and joys of her life, so when the King appeared in Lys without warning, as he was wont to do as far as his dominions stretched and beyond, she asked to see a binding.
Now here she was, staring at a being that had not been in any of her books, if this Amala truly was one and not three joined in some eternal dance of flesh as she bargained over service to the Dragon King. I'll have to ask Erisiel more about her sort, Hermetia noted. A faint chill ran down her spine though there was no breeze in the room. Keeping company with Devils and thinking nothing of it. Do I seem as otherworldly to others as King Viserys does to me?
If she were being honest the young Vaerosiea had always thought of her time in Sorcerer's Deep and later in Lys as preparing herself for a grand adventure in foreign lands that she had once only dreamed of running her fingers over the cracked parchment of old maps. What if for some I am the strange and far off thing they glimpse only once in their lifetime? She wondered again, remembering the awed and almost frightened looks she glimpsed in the eyes of provincial magisters come to ask some aid or judgement passed. She had always thought what they feared was the iron fist of the Legion that had brought an end to Aedon's Folly...
"This law of yours protects gods and the sheep who mindlessly follow in their wake?" The Fiend's leading question started Hermetia from her thoughts. "Why not dispense with the gods and keep all the wool, milk, and flesh for yourself?"
For a long moment the King was silent. "It is not that I do not have an answer, but that I have so many I do not know which to give first," he said at last. "I suppose the most important for you to hear is that I do not fancy myself a shepherd, having better things to do with my time and not wishing to be bound by the role."
It took Hermetia a moment to pick apart the metaphor, not because she was at all slow in such tasks, but because the answer was so enormous that she could not believe he said it almost idly. 'Being a god would limit me.' I'm definitely not that strange, she thought, struggling to constrain a nervous giggle.
"Mortals are so enamored with their free will," Amala mused. "It never ceases to amaze me how they have two legs but would walk six paths at once. Is it not better to refine oneself by that singular fire than burns in the depths of each soul?"
"Perhaps if one knew the end of all paths and could choose them from the start in full confidence of their end, but that would require knowledge above the gods from the start of one's journey," King Viserys replied with an almost self-deprecating smile. "Better I have found to leave room to change, to grow and to decide along the path than to bind one's self to it like an ox to his furrow."
"Such a strange veil you see existence through, but one that has led you far," the Fiend allowed. "I will meditate upon this and the purpose of the rest of your laws as soon as I find a place fitting for the task."
"What exactly are you looking for, my lady?" Hermetia interjected, choosing to err on the side of more courtesy when it came to Fiends of unknown nature.
"A place once raised to the fleeting glories of the divine now desolate so that one might hear the secrets in the silence," came the reply as one of the three faces turned to her in askance, as though surprised she had dared to speak.
Hermetia had encountered that expression more times than she could count. She would not be so lightly deterred. "Then perhaps somewhere on the Gilded Quarters? Even with reconstruction gaining ever more ground there there are still temples left abandoned, a few fallen into possession of the city due to unpaid taxes. If you are willing to take one of them off my hands I would sell it cheaply."
The head that had been addressing her nodded, a gleam of interest in its eyes, then speaking through her rightmost face the Fiend asked of the King: "And how much coin is my fealty worth for a beginning, then?"
"Five-thousand marks, for a beginning," he replied, a generous offer but one clearly not open to anymore haggling.
The Fiend bowed as she accepted the small chest the King produced from the folds of his cloak. Hermetia could not say if the gesture was beautiful, disturbing or both, but she did breathe a small sigh of relief once she was gone.
"Do you have a parchment and quill?" the King asked unexpectedly, looking again far more like the boy she had first seen at the Feast of the Crossing years ago.
"I have better. You gave him to me, Your Grace," Hermetia replied as Inksnatcher, her diminutive Calligraphy Wyrm, flowed out over the desk in search of parchment.
"Excellent," he nodded. "Could you mark down a few divinatory answers? They are a bit difficult to remember when one is casting the spell and I think it is a good idea that I do it. Amala's kind are naturally veiled from foresight and farsight to a degree, which would make it difficult for the seers of the House of Mirrors to track."
Thankfully the answers all showed that the Fiend, whom the King named a sort of Asura, had been truthful in all her words and did not intend treachery. Yet Lys still had plenty of troubles of its own.
"Will you be staying to help deal with the matter of the Goblin Market, Your Grace?" Hermetia asked, not a little tempted to join in on the investigation herself if he did.
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OOC: The vote feels a little odd there at the end, but the alternative would have been to have a short update from Viserys' PoV that would have been basically all filler and retreading the same ground. The question here is not just yes or no to the investigation, but what to do next.
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Made some edits to the chapter, DP.
Haha, Hermetia, welcome to the big leagues.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
We are actually done with everything we had slated for Viserys to do personally - we but need a few reports on minor actions.
Why doing this is important? well, we pulled people off it in the middle of the task, impending it mechanically.
We kinda have to have it done this month, too, so going personally seems the way to go.
I don't mind leaving it to coMpanions, but my desire to see it done overweights that to see them do it :/
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- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Google doesn't provide me with a translation ...
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
Great plan!
[X] Goldfish
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]@DragonParadox, can we get a recap on the market?
What is it, who are big players around it, what have our people found there, etc.?
Great plan!
[X] Goldfish
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@DragonParadox, can we get a recap on the market?
What is it, who are big players around it, what have our people found there, etc.?
Sure I can do a recap of what has been found out so far. It might take me a little while though since I did not plan the thread to become the focus of Viserys' attention.
- Location
- France
It's one of our homemade titles, I believe.
There might be an informational threadmark somewhere.
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- Location
- Philippines
Home-made Valyrian name for Baroness.
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