Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Hard to really say and that's information that should definitely be obtained IC if ever, since there are surviving Alchemists.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Hard to really say and that's information that should definitely be obtained IC if ever, since there are surviving Alchemists.
Goldfish
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IIRC, it was pretty well infiltrated, though there were still plenty of members who had no knowledge of the Devil association. One of the reasons we destroyed it when we did, rather than waiting to get more Alchmists, was because we would certainly kill more Innocents if we waited, and there was a ritual in progress that we didn't want to be completed. I think it was to Summon the Advodaza?
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This is correct. We couldn't afford the chance of a surprise!Advodaza fight in the middle of King's Landing.
Also the Alchemist's Guild's continued existence was a threat for multiple reasons, the most severe of which was their wildfire production which the devils were exploiting.
Crake
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We still killed some people who were likely uninvolved, but we were and still are at the point where Viserys appearing in King's Landing would probably have kicked off a war. People are really twitchy about his appearances.
Really twitchy.
Really twitchy.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
I wonder if some of his power is still being kept in check by the 13th Dustin King, I'm assuming that the First kings spirit, used the cloak dyed with his bones, to possess the corpse of the 13th Dustin King, and considering the Dustin King probably took the cloak to seal its power, he might still be sealing a good deal of it, because I would think the First human king in Westeros would be a mythic being, and a high level one at that.
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Part MMMCLXXV: Between the Rivers Fair
Between the Rivers Fair
Twentieth Day of the Eleventh Month 293 AC
"Thank you for sharing your account with us, Wisdom," you say to Ansa, automatically using the Valyrian formula, or what might perhaps be called the Scholarum formula by now considering that from Braavos to Volantis all the mages under your rule use it. The old hedge witch nods and withdraws beyond the circle of firelight, leaving you to speak of other and hopefully less tangled affairs of the Riverlords.
The Lads had, quite understandably, kept a close eye on Lord Ashwin Keath given the bad blood between them following the killing on his heir. Thankfully, as far as they know, the old lord has chosen to tighten ties to Riverrun and not Casterly Rock, though Tom swears by an account of one of his many 'friends in high and low places' that Lord Keath sent agents across the Narrow Sea, to Braavos in fact of all places. What they may have been looking for there you could not say, but you doubt it is the right way to swear an oath of allegiance to you.
"Lord Lychester has struck it rich," the mage, Gaemon, interjects, speaking up for the first time. "I talked to a fellow from Willowbank right below his keep's walls and he claimed the old lord used magic to find silver in the bowels of the earth, or maybe even make the silver appear there when there was none through the work of strange spirits." He snorts, taking another piece of spiced meat from the spit. "From the descriptions there were spirits enough and magic too, but there wasn't anything mysterious about it. He had some agents use the gate in Sorcerer's Deep to get to the Opaline Vault, got a mage from there to prospect his lands for precious metals and struck it lucky."
"Real lucky," Ser Richard says suspiciously. "What would a poor lord have to pay for the services of a wizard that walks on golden streets?"
"That, I couldn't tell you, but the silver's real enough," Ser Benjicot confirms. "They were sending ingots down the King's Road to King's Landing to be struck into coin just last week."
"More luck than Luthor Lolliston's having that's for sure, nothing's gone right for him since he crossed the Lannisters, crop blights and floods one after another," Tom picks up the account. "I've been spreading songs and tales that it was the Golden Shields that cursed him, after all it could've been them wicked mages they are, make the cow's milk go sour in the teat and bridges rot under 'em." He gives a broad wink. "Not like us upstanding lads in the Greenwood."
"And did that actually work?" you ask with some wariness. Truth be told you are not sure what you would do with a lord that gullible.
"No, but the folk in his lands believe right enough," the singer replies. "Er... you can fix crop blight and flood damage, right? The other part of the rumors I've sent were about how you were going to set everything right."
"Yes, though you should have asked that before setting any promises flying on the wind," you reply just a touch sternly. Still, you have told too many tall tales to hold this one against him for long, especially since it proved less tall then he imagined.
Fortunately the next bit of news is better than any you have yet heard today. House Roote has been making subtle gestures of friendship to the Mootons of late, having either concluded that your meddling with Harrowway was better than a court full of angry fey, or just that a dragon's trespass is no trespass at all. Either way you will take it gladly if they are sincere.
"What of House Smallwood?" you ask, turning once more to Tom of Sevenstreams, expecting another of the bard's arch smiles.
To your surprise you find his gaze solemn instead. "Ravella's little girl Carellen almost died of some pox or another last month. I had to sneak Masie in to heal her or the girl would have died same as her brother last year. She's been trying to get her husband to declare with Darry and the rest, but Ser Theomar is the sort to take all his vows seriously... all but his wedding vows that is to hear Ravella complain about it." He gives a small and you think genuine sigh, perhaps contemplating the times when Lady Smallwood would do more than just complain to him of her husband's infidelities.
It is Ser Benjicot who knows the most of House Vypren, though not as much as you might have hoped to find out. The lord of the House had eased out of his more extreme shows of piety, though he still seemed a changed man to those who knew him by sight, not including any present since Vypren lands are towards Seaguard where the Lads do not wander as often.
Of greater concern is the fact that Lord Deddings seems to have thrown his lot in with the Lannisters, with his eldest daughter's hand in marriage thrown into the bargain while House Grell remainx one of the last staunch Tully Loyalists in the eastern Riverlands. Lord Grell had apparently ridden with Hoster Tully in the War of the Ninepenny Kings.
By contrast Halmon Paege is known far and wide as a cautious man, and less complimentary things if one listens long enough. He has not yet gone so far as to to try and contact any of the Houses loyal to you, but his armsmen have been very slow indeed to trouble the Lads and Ser Benjicot offered silent thanks by way of cleared bandit camps. If you were to guess you would say Ser Paege's hesitation comes from his House's history fighting in the wars of dragons. The Paeges won no glory and no land supporting Aegon the Uncrowned against Maegor, though his cause may have been just.
Last mentioned is House Wayn, another bound to Hoster Tully for the current Lord Wayn's uncle is the steward of Riverrun, though rumor has it that there might have been some sort of trouble between them at the succession so perhaps that connection might yet be turned on its head.
What do you do next?
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OOC: And done, that was a lot of background rolling.
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To be fair, is there anything a bard could think up that Viserys can't do?
Maybe won't do, for practical or political reasons, but really can't is harder.
Goldfish
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What is the going rate to hire a Shaitan to travel to the ass end of Westeros to search for precious metals, I wonder? More likely, Lychester struck a deal with one of the Shaitan noble houses to trade silver for goods from the Plane of Balance.
Might be an interesting angle to investigate, to check into the legality of it, if that is the case. It's easy enough to figure out with some basic Divination spells.
What is the going rate to hire a Shaitan to travel to the ass end of Westeros to search for precious metals, I wonder? More likely, Lychester struck a deal with one of the Shaitan noble houses to trade silver for goods from the Plane of Balance.
Might be an interesting angle to investigate, to check into the legality of it, if that is the case. It's easy enough to figure out with some basic Divination spells.
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In the end it was a pretty unfortunate investment given that the value of gold and silver will plummet in the near future.
Only if it's actually for a mine and not just an excuse for trading with allies of the Dragon and all that. Then it's a very good one.
And if he doesnt want that exposure to us either? He might be trying to stay neutral and just negotiated his own minor trade for local goods.
Remembering the exchange rates there he could just be maxing out the Shaitans monthly limit on silver to foreigners every month and shipping them as "newly mined" silver every month. Would be a nice bit of extra cash per month while it lasts. We did it when a thousand IM a month mattered.
Huh, canonically Lord Vypren is married to a Frey. There is that. Really think it's a way to hide trade now.
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egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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This is your casual announcement to @everyone in the thread - you are better off @'ing me any such idea you have for the future, than relying on either someone remembering, or me picking it up by myself.
Added to 12th month's MAs.
What other houses' libraries we had yet to raid, @Crake, @Duesal?
I cant be bothered to try and keep account of whom we even have as allies in Westeros by now, but aside from Night Watch I don't remember much about book-copying either.
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Yeah sure. Let's just cement and institutionalise a pointless and disruptive family feud that's been going since before the Targs even came to Westeros. What could go wrong?
The point is that marriage is a good way to defuse blood feuds.
Kings have tried to force the marriage in the past, the problem was the members of said arriage weren't willing and thus became spiteful, resentful etc.
If these two are so willing of their own initiative not only to find a genuine connection but an active desire to defuse said pointless feud, perhaps we should facilitate that.
There's a big difference between a spiteful in-law in the inheritance line and a loved/loving and respected one.
They're young enough they'll come into their own in the new world, moreso than their rigid fore-generation and quite frankly the loyalty and potential of an optimistic heir is far more valuable than the fealty of an old man that would have such a knee jerk response to this situation. They are also not mutually exclusive, we have Diplomacy.
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Goldfish
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@DragonParadox, can the effects of a Create Magic Tattoo spell be made permanent using a Permanency spell?
Dorne
Crack Claw Point(after the horn I want to see if that sorceress left anything lore wise)
Bravos (wasnt there some library there)
Tyrell (I dont think they would care much and might think it will win them some favor)
We have the Grand Maester now too so we could get the Red Keeps done possibly along with select books from the Citadel if we are careful and he has actual clout there.
The Rhoyne should have some Library Ruins we could request to repair and retrieve the lore from.
While I would not call it unbalanced mechanically under the circumstances I'd like to keep tattoos psionic only to keep the feel that that is a strange paradigm not just refluffed magic so no, at least not right now. If you guys do a project to copy persistent psionic tatoos with magic that would justify them.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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Pretty sure we already emptied that one out, and long before we even had them swear fealty.
Will note other points, thanks.
Goldfish
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I don't mind that ruling, but Tuin and Morwyn both have magic tattoos, IIRC.
I guess they could just be a product of unknown Drow magic for now.
True, I'd forgotten about them, the drow would be another source of Magic tattoos, probably more reliable than trying to reverse-engineer from psionics
Goldfish
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I think we'll just set that type of magic aside for now. I'm certainly not interested enough to go poking around the Underdark right now.
'Night guys, see you tomorrow with more from the Riverlands but also finishing up things in Barrowtown.