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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 worry people returning might trigger some latent effects, but mostly it would be a symbolic gesture.
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People have returned for thousands of years, dude. That curse isn't coming back.

As for fertility, Weirwood Heart Trees have a sharply limited area of influence. Using them is suboptimal for stuff like this. Instead just make a dozen or so Advanced Druid Creature Lotus Leshys and charge them with helping the farmers.
 
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[] Keep things quiet for now, try to secure his loyalty normally.
-[] Once you have taken the throne they can get a divorce like sane people, instead of having to murder each other. Explain this to the Lady and tell her to tell it her lover too.
-[] Especially they should both take note that the current lord's death will be investigated thoroughly, no matter the cause, should it happen
-[] For the Lord himself, focus on finding out what has been driving him to paranoia lately, the weird behavior of one Maester doesn't seem like a good cause?
 
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Part MMMLXXXIV: The Seed of Suspicion
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    • The Seed of Suspicion​

    Thirty-First Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC

    For all the anger you feel at the sheer self-indulgent idiocy just revealed, you have no intention of seeing Lady Alyse dead, nor even Ser Gilbert. They can live with their choices like every other person that has ever found themselves in breach of contract. Sadly, it will go ill for poor Bryen, but if warding off one child's sorrows were enough to justify usurpation then you aught to leave Robert Baratheon upon the Iron Throne and his supposed son after him. There will be a reckoning for this, but not yet. Today's concern is how to secure Lord Farring's allegiance without any mention of affairs or compromising letters.

    "I don't suppose the lady was so kind as to share the cause for her husband's suspicions in addition to an account of her follies?" You silently ask your mother, forging a more long-lasting spell of silent speech between the two of you and Ser Richard so that you might discuss the letter and its implication without alerting the three Crownlander knights. Honorable and loyal to Lord Velaryon though they might be, you have no real notion on how they would react to the matter. You suspect, however, that youth and wounded pride alike would drive Ser Godry to seek some sort of redress.

    "Alyse clearly started him down the path in her haste to remove the maester before he could investigate any deeper and reveal her secret," your mother replies, still staring out the window as late morning light played among droplets of fitful rain. "She hinted that the maesters may have crafted the Arryn heir, the one who was said to not age, by claiming that she had been offered a similar arcane bargain, an attempt to use Lord Goddar's faith, though one that reached uncomfortably far... save for the fact that news of Lord Arryn's death reached the keep the very next day."

    "More luck than she deserved,"     Ser Richard's thought cuts across the conversation darkly before he goes back to keeping the knights occupied so they will not pay too much attention to your rapport.

    "Likely so, but that's not the end of the tale, nor the strangest part," your mother continues. "Lord Goddar found proof of magic in the maester's quarters, alchemical and arcane texts from the sounds of it. For a man already prepared to find workings of dark sorcery used in the crafting of false infants, it was enough to push him into believing in a grand conspiracy of maesters using hidden magic and other dark dealings to twist the lords of Westeros to their aims."

    It's easy enough to see where that goes. After all, you had the same thoughts about the true plot you unveiled. The maesters are everywhere, trusted by most, and made use of by all. They handle ravens, healing, and scholarship, all of which they bind to their order as tightly as the chains around their necks. The fear of poison is certainly not unreasonable given the supposed foe.

    "What does Lord Farring think of magic?" you ask, not anticipating a pleasant answer.

    "He fears and distrusts much of it, though not implacably so, particularly since the proclamations of the Conclave in Oldtown that not all magic is maleficent," your mother replies. "He might even be looking for mages of the Faith to help protect him against the Citadel, though he did not share that with his his lady wife and she did not wish to press her luck by involving herself too deeply."

    Better than you might have feared, at least. The admission that there is such a thing as sorcery that is not anathema means that you might yet persuade Lord Goddar Farring to swear himself to you, particularly if you were to grant him the protection he so desperately seeks.

    How do you approach Lord Farring?

    [] Forthrightly as Viserys
    -[] Write in

    [] As a merchant from the east, with implied ties with Viserys offering him magical protections
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: Rhaella rolled really well for her conversation with the lady so she got much more than just the story of the infidelity. In fact, I'm considering giving her a level up. She has not had one in a while from what I recall and she has been involved in some tricky actions.
     
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    • A gift of minor magic items would probably go a long way.

    Amulet of PfE, Healing Belt, Ring of Detect Poison, Ring of Detect Magic, etc.
     
    This dude has enough reasons to distrust everybody, begging brothers, maestere and magi alike, he sure is one unlucky lord with the predicament he's been dealt.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    OOC: Rhaella rolled really well for her conversation with the lady so she got much more than just the story of the infidelity. In fact, I'm considering giving her a level up. She has not had one in a while from what I recall and she has been involved in some tricky actions.
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    Damn, some of the tables Snowfire used in Rhaella's class are broken.
    Both her Spellcasting and the effects of her level 10 ability are gone.

    Would it be impolite to ask Snowfire what that was supposed to be now?
     
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    Damn, some of the tables Snowfire used in Rhaella's class are broken.
    Both her Spellcasting and the effects of her level 10 ability are gone.

    Would it be impolite to ask Snowfire what that was supposed to be now?
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    I think... I hope a PM question is fine in this case. He was not as burned out as azel of the thread and I did ask him stuff once or twice.
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    Guys, the tables are fine.

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    It's just that the Dragonsinger link on Rhaella's sheet links to a quote of the class, and for whatever reason the tables don't show up in the quote. They're just fine in the source, though.
     
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    The Seed of Suspicion​

    Thirty-First Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC

    For all the anger you feel at the sheer self-indulgent idiocy just revealed, you have no intention of seeing Lady Alyse dead, nor even Ser Gilbert. They can live with their choices like every other person that has ever found themselves in breach of contract. Sadly, it will go ill for poor Bryen, but if warding off one child's sorrows were enough to justify usurpation then you aught to leave Robert Baratheon upon the Iron Throne and his supposed son after him. There will be a reckoning for this, but not yet. Today's concern is how to secure Lord Farring's allegiance without any mention of affairs or compromising letters.

    "I don't suppose the lady was so kind as to share the cause for her husband's suspicions in addition to an account of her follies?" You silently ask your mother, forging a more long-lasting spell of silent speech between the two of you and Ser Richard so that you might discuss the letter and its implication without alerting the three Crownlander knights. Honorable and loyal to Lord Velaryon though they might be, you have no real notion on how they would react to the matter. You suspect, however, that youth and wounded pride alike would drive Ser Godry to seek some sort of redress.

    "Alyse clearly started him down the path in her haste to remove the maester before he could investigate any deeper and reveal her secret," your mother replies, still staring out the window as late morning light played among droplets of fitful rain. "She hinted that the maesters may have crafted the Arryn heir, the one who was said to not age, by claiming that she had been offered a similar arcane bargain, an attempt to use Lord Goddar's faith, though one that reached uncomfortably far... save for the fact that news of Lord Arryn's death reached the keep the very next day."

    "More luck than she deserved,"     Ser Richard's thought cuts across the conversation darkly before he goes back to keeping the knights occupied so they will not pay too much attention to your rapport.

    "Likely so, but that's not the end of the tale, nor the strangest part," your mother continues. "Lord Goddar found proof of magic in the maester's quarters, alchemical and arcane texts from the sounds of it. For a man already prepared to find workings of dark sorcery used in the crafting of false infants, it was enough to push him into believing in a grand conspiracy of maesters using hidden magic and other dark dealings to twist the lords of Westeros to their aims."

    It's easy enough to see where that goes. After all, you had the same thoughts about the true plot you unveiled. The maesters are everywhere, trusted by most, and made use of by all. They handle ravens, healing, and scholarship, all of which they bind to their order as tightly as the chains around their necks. The fear of poison is certainly not unreasonable given the supposed foe.

    "What does Lord Farring think of magic?" you ask, not anticipating a pleasant answer.

    "He fears and distrusts much of it, though not implacably so, particularly since the proclamations of the Conclave in Oldtown that not all magic is maleficent," your mother replies. "He might even be looking for mages of the Faith to help protect him against the Citadel, though he did not share that with his his lady wife and she did not wish to press her luck by involving herself too deeply."

    Better than you might have feared, at least. The admission that there is such a thing as sorcery that is not anathema means that you might yet persuade Lord Goddar Farring to swear himself to you, particularly if you were to grant him the protection he so desperately seeks.

    How do you approach Lord Farring?

    [] Forthrightly as Viserys
    -[] Write in

    [] As a merchant from the east, with implied ties with Viserys offering him magical protections
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: Rhaella rolled really well for her conversation with the lady so she got much more than just the story of the infidelity. In fact, I'm considering giving her a level up. She has not had one in a while from what I recall and she has been involved in some tricky actions.
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    Made some edits to the chapter, @DragonParadox.

    Wow, Lady Farring really is an idiot, isn't she? Now I feel bad for her husband.
     
    @DragonParadox, I've been meaning to ask -- we originally gave Rhaella a Valyrian Dragon Egg before we ever had plans on resurrecting the Targaryen Valyrian Dragons, the black one with specks of gold specifically, but that became a moot point when Rhaella tamed Silverwing. Is Rhaella just going to hang onto the egg until Rhaenys, Jon Snow, or Viserys' future children are old enough or something?
     
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    @DragonParadox, I've been meaning to ask -- we originally gave Rhaella a Valyrian Dragon Egg before we ever had plans on resurrecting the Targaryen Valyrian Dragons, the black one with specks of gold specifically, but that became a moot point when Rhaella tamed Silverwing. Is Rhaella just going to hang onto the egg until Rhaenys, Jon Snow, or Viserys' future children are old enough or something?
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    No that never occurred to her, as far as she is concerned that egg is free for whoever you want to hand it out to.
     
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    Off topic for a second, but goddamn have the last 24 hours been fucking wild in the US.

    On topic, I agree with @das_slash. If we come to him as his rightful liege and confirm his suspicions while offering to save him from the Master conspiracy, he should jump at it.
     
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