A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Part MMMXCV: From Darkness Claimed
From Darkness Claimed
Thirty-First Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC
As midnight creeps ever closer you turn your attention to matters of shadows brought to light, doughty souls or in one case a particularly avaricious Dragon sent out in secret to hunt the servants of Winter. And so they had found the secret places where death sleeps under the unknowing feet of the living and hunted howling beasts of madness, and by dragonfire, by Valyrian Steel and even by Jeyne's strange arts of the mind and the spells of a shadow fiend who once in some small measure served the Void himself, those dark hollows were brought to light and from them drawn strange treasures that had not seen the light of day for centuries.
Truth be told you are still not entirely sure what you are supposed to do with the cursed lantern by which the strange goat spirit in the Mountains of the Moon bound its victims, though the long ages of ruin had made it a base for runic enchantment if you were to so choose.
Between them Mors Umber, Ser Bonifer Hasty and Drizzil had accounted for a Wight who sought to sing with death's voice over the Stormlands, though to what end is more than any of those who ended it could guess. That horror had no treasures to plunder to the little Faerie Dragon's disappointment and the knight's quiet relief. However, the skull taken for interrogation as was now custom held far more than the few wisps of power one would anticipate, whether from some desperate last act of the unliving or fickle fortune's whims you could not say, and in truth it does not matter. You would not trust the thing unless it were purified, or else see it offered up in sacrifice.
Skull of the Still Scream
Description: At first sight this skull shows itself to be nothing more than yellowed bone, but if one were to set it in sunlight or besides the light of a roaring flame, still the empty sockets would be filled with blackest shadow.
Ability: Allows the bard who carries it to use the counter-song ability to counter any spell with a verbal competent of level 1-3 as Dispel Magic. May not be used to dispel ongoing effects.
Caster Level: 7
Description: At first sight this skull shows itself to be nothing more than yellowed bone, but if one were to set it in sunlight or besides the light of a roaring flame, still the empty sockets would be filled with blackest shadow.
Ability: Allows the bard who carries it to use the counter-song ability to counter any spell with a verbal competent of level 1-3 as Dispel Magic. May not be used to dispel ongoing effects.
Caster Level: 7
Amrelath had been more fortunate in his search for treasure, doubtlessly because Bloodraven had been the one to mark his path and he knew the Wyrm would be more likely to take up the cause again if it grew his hoard. After beating a spirit of Deathless Hunger, for one could not be said to deliver death to such a thing, alongside its ill-fated worshipers, the Dragon had dug his way into one of the many overgrown barrows that laid abandoned and unknown. There it had found treasure worthy of a Dragon's gaze, works of bright bronze, shining silver and gold mined long before iron first struck the earth of Westeros.
12,500 IM Worth of First Men grave goods included but not limited to:
Dryad Sandals
Bracers of Vengeance
- Golden funerary masks with onyx eyes
- A chariot with mammoth ivory paneling showing the war between the First Men and the Children of the Forest
- Ceremonial bronze swords with hilts wrapped in silver wire and ruby pommels
- An auroch hunting horn bound in red gold likely traded from the east
Dryad Sandals
Bracers of Vengeance
Last, though by no means the least of efforts, is the bard Danar Crowl and his lady wife who had stilled the specters haunting a circle of standing stones in the Riverlands and then dug for what they suspect from the wailing of the dead must have been ancient bandit's treasure that served the thieves very ill indeed for they had unknowingly stolen works cursed by the powers of the Farthest North. It had been a battle hard fought for the spirits of the dead were not easily banished by even enchanted steel, leaving only spell and song to bind them to their proper rest. Far from losing heart at the struggle Alysa Grafton had taken this for a sign that she might need something better than a crossbow to fight. She would be enrolling in the Scholarum on the morrow it seems.
Torc of the Broken Brotherhood x5
Description: Forged of Bronze that has long since lost its luster, these arm-bands grip any flesh that touches them like a vice, and not even in death do they surrender it.
Ability: Grants Immunity to Fire and DR 10/Dragonglass or Valyrian Steel
Curse: Cannot be removed without casting Remove Curse (Caster level check) or Break Enchantment. One who dies wearing these armbands cannot find rest and rises again as Wight. Should the body be destroyed the spirit is naked and unhoused as a Wraith. Only by singing the souls into the Green Dream can they find peace.
Caster Level: 11
Description: Forged of Bronze that has long since lost its luster, these arm-bands grip any flesh that touches them like a vice, and not even in death do they surrender it.
Ability: Grants Immunity to Fire and DR 10/Dragonglass or Valyrian Steel
Curse: Cannot be removed without casting Remove Curse (Caster level check) or Break Enchantment. One who dies wearing these armbands cannot find rest and rises again as Wight. Should the body be destroyed the spirit is naked and unhoused as a Wraith. Only by singing the souls into the Green Dream can they find peace.
Caster Level: 11
How do you dispose of the treasure?
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OOC: Obviously Amrelath has claimed his loot, but you can trade him for it if you like.
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Looks good, @egoo.
Nicely done, Amrelath. The hoard grows!
I'd like to purchase the Dryad Sandals for Soft Strider or maybe Reva or Liset. Seems fitting for them as druids and rangers.
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The Sandals are nice, but not for Amy.
The bracers though, are very draconic and great for a melee-monster with countless natural attacks.
I suggest leaving those to him.
That's great. Really damn strong, especially for mid-level characters.
Disatvantage is that you can't afford to die wearing those, because we can't simply bring you back if the Greendream is the only option for a peaceful afterlife.
Or does Resurrection negate that effect?
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Seems redundant for a Druid, who can do all these things already with classfeatures and spells.
Much better for a ranger or scout.
Alyssa Grafton was a moderatly sneaky, magic-less ranger so far, right? Those would be perfect for her.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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@DragonParadox, would a Thinaun "pseudo-phylactery" override the Tork's curse?
As in, the person dies, and an, say, impalnted piece of Thinaun sucks out the soul before the curse affects it with Wightness/Wraithness?
As in, the person dies, and an, say, impalnted piece of Thinaun sucks out the soul before the curse affects it with Wightness/Wraithness?
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No need to purchase the Bracers from him, they make a very nice addition to his hoard and we're not exactly as impoverished in magical gear as we used to be, but that said Amrelath has a far superior option he's already wearing:
Given the millennia he endured being forced into lichdom I doubt he'll willingly relinquish his protection against death magic.
Maybe he can pass the bracers on to his own companions, with the obvious caveat of "You're just borrowing this, it's still mine."
Purchasing it for her would certainly be useful.
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True.No need to purchase the Bracers from him, they make a very nice addition to his hoard and we're not exactly as impoverished in magical gear as we used to be, but that said Amrelath has a far superior option he's already wearing:
Given the millennia he endured being forced into lichdom I doubt he'll willingly relinquish his protection against death magic.
Maybe he can pass the bracers on to his own companions, with the obvious caveat of "You're just borrowing this, it's still mine."
Maybe we could get him to pay to put the Soulfire enchantment on his new bracers?
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That could certainly work.
EDIT: Wait, @Artemis1992, it would have to be the other way around. The new bracers aren't mithril, and would be a downgrade.
I think we'd still have to pay for it ourselves. I've been repeatedly told that Amrelath's hoard is too small, and that even things that obviously increase the hoard over time like investing won't happen because he doesn't want to let any of it out of his immediate control.
I'm not sure how much he needs before he is willing to actually start using his money.
That said I am down for crafting Amrelath a flesh-forged minion of his specifications, though one obvious requirement would be fire immunity.
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@DragonParadox, does he have enough of a hoard now?
No way to know unless you ant to experiment, also they seem to be intrinsically connected to Winter and feed off it
Yes, she is now relatively comfortable.
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As of today, his hoard is worth:
30,500 IM. Not bad, but by the same token a Flesh Forge servitor worth a damn will be costly.
I'm not opposed to just giving him a servitor. It'll make him more effective in the long run. If we wanted we could say it's an additional reward for killing off a Wendigo before it could do more harm.
Oh, that's a relief. Can he start investing, even if it's in tiny bits?
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Technically, the "bracers" we and Amrelath wear are Bucklers, because Soulfire is an enchantment only for Shields.
So they are mithril to set the Arcane Casting Failure down to 0%.
I'm not sure if regular bracers can be enchanted with Soulfire, but if they could they wouldn't need to be Mithril.
How about just buying everything for one and a half times their monetary worth. Stuffing the first men stuff in the upcoming museum and doing what we want with the magic items after scrying their history and general precautions?
And what do you guys say about giving our more Draconic PCs a 20% purchase credit in the Fungus Forge for corpses turned in? Should get them motivate to bring bodies in if they get minions out of it right?
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Maybe, but Viserys would not bet on it. It depends on how closely those things draw on the power of Winter.
Goldfish
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From Darkness Claimed
Thirty-First Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC
As midnight creeps ever closer, you turn your attention to matters of shadows brought to light, doughty souls, or in one case a particularly aviracious dragon sent out in secret to hunt the servants of Winter. And so they had found the secret places where death sleeps under the unknowing feet of the living, and hunted howling beasts of madness and, by dragonfire, by spellsteel and even by Jeyne's strange arts of the mind, and the spells of a shadow fiend who once in some small measure served the Void himself, those dark hallows were brought to light and from them drawn strange treasures that had not seen the light of day centuries.
Truth be told, you are still not entirely sure what you are supposed to do with the cursed lantern by which the strange goat spirit in the Mountains of the Moon bound its victims, though the long ages of ruin had made it a base for a runic enchantment if you were to so choose.
Between them, Mors Umber, Ser Bonifer Hasty, and Drizzil had accounted for a wight who sought to sing with death's voice over the Stormlands, though to what end is more than any of those who ended it could guess. That horror had no treasures to plunder, to the little fey dragon's disappointment, and
the knight's quiet relief. The skull taken for interrogation, as was custom, held far more than the few wisps of power one would anticipate. Whether from some desperate last act of the unliving or fickle fortune's whims, you could not say, and in truth it does not matter. You would not trust the thing unless it were purified, or else see it offered up in sacrifice.
Skull of the Still Scream
Description: At first sight this skull shows itself to be nothing more than yellowed bone, but if one were to set in sunlight or beside the light of a roaring flame, the empty sockets are filled with blackest shadow.
Ability: Allows the bard who carried it to use the counter-song ability to counter any spell with a verbal competent of level 1-3 as Dispel Magic. May not be used to dispel ongoing effects.
Caster level: 7
Description: At first sight this skull shows itself to be nothing more than yellowed bone, but if one were to set in sunlight or beside the light of a roaring flame, the empty sockets are filled with blackest shadow.
Ability: Allows the bard who carried it to use the counter-song ability to counter any spell with a verbal competent of level 1-3 as Dispel Magic. May not be used to dispel ongoing effects.
Caster level: 7
Amrelath had been more fortunate in his search for treasure, doubtless because Bloodraven had been the one to mark his path and he knew the Wyrm would be more likely to take up the cause again if it grew his hoard. After being a spirit of deathless hunger, for one could not be said to deliver death to such a thing, alongside its ill-fated worshipers, the dragon had dug his way into one of the many overgrown barrows that lie abandoned and unknown. There it had found treasure worthy of a dragon's gaze, works of bright bronze and shinning silver, and gold mined long before iron first struck the earth of Westeros.
12500 IM Worth of First Men grave goods included but not limited to:
Dryad Sandals
Bracers of Vengeance
- Golden funerary masks with onyx eyes
- A chariot with mammoth ivory paneling showing the war between the First Men and the Children of the Forest
- Ceremonial bronze swords with hilts wrapped in silver wire and ruby pummels
- An auroch's hunting horn bound in red gold likely traded from the east
Dryad Sandals
Bracers of Vengeance
Last, though by no means the least of efforts, is the bard Dannar Crowl and his lady wife who had stilled the specters haunting a circle of standing stones in the Riverlands. They had then dug for what they suspect, from the wailing of the dead, must have been ancient bandit's treasure that served the thieves very ill indeed, for they had unknowingly stolen works cursed by the powers of the Farthest North. It had been a battle hard fought, for the spirits of the dead were not easily banished by even enchanted steel, leaving only spell and song to bind them to their proper rest. Far from losing heart at the struggle, Alysa Grafton had taken this for a sign she might need something better than a crossbow to fight. She would be enrolling in the Scholarum on the morrow, it seems.
Torc of the Broken Brotherhood x5
Description: Forged of Bronze that has long since lost its luster these arm-bands grip any flesh that touches them like a vice, and not even in death to they surrender it.
Ability: Grants Immunity to Fire and DR 10/Dragonglass or valyrian Steel
Curse: Cannot be removed without casting Remove Curse (Caster level check) or Break Enchatment. One who dies wearing these armbands cannot find rest and rises again as wight. Should the body be destroyed, the spirit rises naked and unhoused as a wraith. Only by singing the souls into the Greendream can they find peace.
Caster Level: 11
Description: Forged of Bronze that has long since lost its luster these arm-bands grip any flesh that touches them like a vice, and not even in death to they surrender it.
Ability: Grants Immunity to Fire and DR 10/Dragonglass or valyrian Steel
Curse: Cannot be removed without casting Remove Curse (Caster level check) or Break Enchatment. One who dies wearing these armbands cannot find rest and rises again as wight. Should the body be destroyed, the spirit rises naked and unhoused as a wraith. Only by singing the souls into the Greendream can they find peace.
Caster Level: 11
How do you dispose of the treasure
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OOC: Obviously Amrelath has claimed his loot but you can trade him for it if you like.
Holy balls, those Torcs are amazing. Can we remove the curse without affecting their power?
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@DragonParadox, by the way, have the Djinn made progress on researching those rings of winter we took from the Winterborn Ala? The one that had Evasion and Mettle as bonus feats? We gave them to the Djinn to reverse-engineer how to make Mettle a bonus feat on items, but it's been a while since we hear back on that.
Also Amrelating is a Dragon. He wearing magic boots or can we just pop the second set of bracers on his hind legs? Bracers take the same spot as gloves right?
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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DP specifically allowed us to get them made in bracer/bracelet form rather than a shield, which in turn occupies the wrist slot.
Viserys' best guess would be no but it would take research to know for sure
Unfortunately not, though they are making progress and none of the mages have yet lost their souls in the attempt.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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Well, now that's just mite bit ominous.
@everyone, shall we send off the skull to Djinn as well, with carte-blanche to rip it to shreds in their experiments, so long as they are careful?
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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Alright, seeing as we'll be getting total numbers soon-ish OOC, here's what I gave DP some time ago, the background for our background summoning if you wil:
Summoning numbers (as of 30th of the 10th month)
Summoners: Lya, Viserys (30 HD daily both)
Total HD (with busy days taken into account): 1350;
(Minimal HD slated for Phoenixes and Archons: 270;
HD for other summons: 1080)
Effective HD cost: 592 HD
'Free' HD: 758 (488+270)
Total of summoned Phoenixes as per above (3 HD per Lesser Phoenix)/Archons (9 HD per Preceptor Archon): up to DP's discretion and rolls, but possibly over two hundred Phoenixes.
(Only several Archons needed to start up the mental help projects).
10th Month Questioning (for more True Names):
Servants of Mammon (captured before or during active operations in 10th month):
2 Assassin Devils (Dogai)
10 Bearded Devils
15 Legion Devils
24 Imps
32 imps,
19 Legion devils,
9 Steel devils,
3 Bone Devils,
1 Ice Devil
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The slavers and servants of Brazen Throne (on the way to Valyria)
1 Efreet Malik Sorcerer Creature Diabolist 10 (soul-captured) - in service to Efreeti Sultan
1 Asurenda (corpse) - In service to Asmodeus
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A specific point I won't stop repeating, of course, is that we won't be trying to grab any minions of Asmodeus, no matter how well our research in unshackling does. They just aren't worth our operational security, and these guys we are grabbing likely come from Slavers Bay already.
Orthons are on the list because someone wanted to cut them up and research into their anti-teleport fields.
Well, there they go, but they are randomly summoned too, we haven't had any True Names to target with those.
That's pretty much it.
Imma go sleep soon, so dropping dis now.
Summoning numbers (as of 30th of the 10th month)
Summoners: Lya, Viserys (30 HD daily both)
Total HD (with busy days taken into account): 1350;
(Minimal HD slated for Phoenixes and Archons: 270;
HD for other summons: 1080)
| Target | Source |
| 3 Desert Devils, 4 Sand devils, 6 Zerub, 5 Bearded devils | Mammon's Devils (1 Desert Devil, 1 Sand Devil, 1 Zebub, 1 Obsidian Devil, 1 Advanced Glided Devil Cleric Creature, 1 Harvester Devil, 1 Imp Sorcerer, 3 Bearded Devils.) |
| *9 Quasit, *6 Schir, *3 Vermlek | Lys Demons |
| *5 Erynies | Our Erynies |
| *2 Bearded devils, 3 imps | Corbray's Devils |
| 3 Orthons | randomly summoned, needed for experiments |
| 1 Horned Devil, 2 Uniilas, 5 Ice Devils, 28 Erinyes (all serving Asmodeus) | Gogossi Asmodeus' Devils |
3 Desert Devils (24 HD), 4 Sand Devils (16 HD), 6 Zebubs (24 HD), 7 Bearded Devils (42 HD), 3 Imps (9 HD), 5 Erynies (45 HD) (all serving Mammon);
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9 Quasit (27 HD), 6 Schir (30 HD), 3 Vermlek (12 HD);
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3 Orthons (6 HD)
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1 Horned Devil (15 HD), 2 Uniilas (20 HD), 5 Ice Devils (70 HD), 28 Erynies (252 HD) (all serving Asmodeus).
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9 Quasit (27 HD), 6 Schir (30 HD), 3 Vermlek (12 HD);
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3 Orthons (6 HD)
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1 Horned Devil (15 HD), 2 Uniilas (20 HD), 5 Ice Devils (70 HD), 28 Erynies (252 HD) (all serving Asmodeus).
'Free' HD: 758 (488+270)
Total of summoned Phoenixes as per above (3 HD per Lesser Phoenix)/Archons (9 HD per Preceptor Archon): up to DP's discretion and rolls, but possibly over two hundred Phoenixes.
(Only several Archons needed to start up the mental help projects).
10th Month Questioning (for more True Names):
Servants of Mammon (captured before or during active operations in 10th month):
2 Assassin Devils (Dogai)
10 Bearded Devils
15 Legion Devils
24 Imps
32 imps,
19 Legion devils,
9 Steel devils,
3 Bone Devils,
1 Ice Devil
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The slavers and servants of Brazen Throne (on the way to Valyria)
1 Efreet Malik Sorcerer Creature Diabolist 10 (soul-captured) - in service to Efreeti Sultan
1 Asurenda (corpse) - In service to Asmodeus
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A specific point I won't stop repeating, of course, is that we won't be trying to grab any minions of Asmodeus, no matter how well our research in unshackling does. They just aren't worth our operational security, and these guys we are grabbing likely come from Slavers Bay already.
Orthons are on the list because someone wanted to cut them up and research into their anti-teleport fields.
Well, there they go, but they are randomly summoned too, we haven't had any True Names to target with those.
That's pretty much it.
Imma go sleep soon, so dropping dis now.
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What skull? As a general note I want it back intact after they're done with it.