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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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Crake said:
Okay, well NOBODY get too excited,

I doubt Malarys instincts are failing him, it's just that this is Asmodeus after all. This is less code from him saying "everything will be fine for a while" and more "this is literally the limits of my current resources, you want the higher tiers of the infiltrators and you'll need to come over here or give me at least four more Companions".
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That can be arranged. Garin, Tyene, a Mind Dragon or two, the Umbral Stalker, maybe the Seeker, etc., can likely be sent to lend their assistance.
 
DragonParadox said:
The Lady and the Spider​

Twenty-First Day of the Eleventh Month 293 AC

Jezhene Pahl had learned early and learned well the lessons of discretion, a girl-child was to be seen but not heard in the presence of those who held the reigns of power, so her father hand taught her. A woman was to meekly nod in the face of her lord father or husband, but keep her own counsel on how she might turn their will to her advantage for harpies had sharp claws and entrancing voices, so her mother had taught her. Yet no one had taught her to hide from her future betrothed, or speak to strange foreigners and definitely not jump into magic bags so she supposed it made sense in an upside-down sort of way that her life had stopped making sense that day. She had been possessed by a devil, Freewoman Kira insisted, not a demon but a devil, she was very insistent about that. Jezhene did not remember being possessed, she did not remember anything but blackness for a little bit and then she was in bed being looked over by healers.

When she realized one of her healers was the False Angel of Mantarys it had been all she could do not to weep in fear and dishonor for her blood for she had heard may tales of that one's cruelty as he drove the slaves on to tear apart their betters and feast upon their flesh to empower his witchcraft. Only the False Angel had not been so false, she had come to realize the more she spent in his company. It had occurred to her once or twice that maybe he had bespelled her and he really was as wicked as her elder brother told, but then how could she doubt the enchantment? That way lay madness and her wits were the last thing the heiress of House Pahl possessed, thus she concluded to trust her eyes and ears, to watch and listen, the better to learn of these strange folk upon which her life now depended.

The more she learned the more confused Jezhene became. "Why do you care so much about what the Unsullied believe?" the girl asked one day when the normally calm Lord Malarys zo Vanor fumed over 'another dead priest'. "They are loyal." She said the last with the utter confidence of her eleven years.

"Strange confidence in ones not bound by the simplest of enchantments," Morwyn scoffed, with that strange cat-smile of his, the one he wore whenever he knew something the one he was talking to did not. Unlike the sorcerer lord the singer or even the angel Jezhene did not really know what to call him so she used the name he had given her, at least in her head, even though it sounded dreadfully familiar.

"'An arch of a thousand years bears many burdens'," the girl replied quoting proverb.

"Whether it lasts a thousand years or ten times that long everything breaks," the strange man said and for a moment Jezhene thought she heard something like sadness in his voice, but his next words distracted as much as any could. "If it had not been for us devils would have wrapped this city up as a spider wraps his prey, ready to drink."

"Should you be telling her that?" Freewoman Kira said, peeking through the crumbling arch of the door.

"Are you planning to let her loose on the streets where she can inform on us?" Morwyn added his own question.

"That's not..." the woman shook her head. "Nevermind, I have to hurry, just try not to give her anymore nightmares then she doubtlessly already has."

"Do you have nightmares?" Crimson eyes fell on her as though he suspected a patch of mold hiding in a corner.

"No," Jezhene lied instantly. "Never saw the point."

"Good, that is the most absurd of all mortal weaknesses, not being able to control even the inside of your own heads," he replied. "As I was saying, we managed to remove a great many of the lesser devils either captured or banished, but they practice good compartmentalization..."

Jezhene understood what all the parts of that word meant, but not the way they came together. She rather suspected Morwyn had made it up on the spot the way foreigners sometimes did when thinking in their own tongue so of course she said so.

She learned a great deal about how to deceive and trick then, more than her father or mother ever had.

OOC: Well here we are, the world through the eyes of a young Ghiscari noblewoman forging an unlikely friendship with a drow who finds her entertaining. This is not as informative as I would like it. I'll probably turn to an on screen report in an update, but the gist of it is that while your party was able to seriously disrupt the low to mid levels of diabolic control in Meereen, the higher devils remain in the shadows. On the other hand the realization of just how much of the Harpies' influence remains leads Malarys to believe that action here is not as urgent as in many other hot spots.
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Of course a Drow would be the one who a Ghiscari noble child ends up empathizing with. :lol:

It actually makes sense, too.
 
Crake said:
Okay, well NOBODY get too excited,

I doubt Malarys instincts are failing him, it's just that this is Asmodeus after all. This is less code from him saying "everything will be fine for a while" and more "this is literally the limits of my current resources, you want the higher tiers of the infiltrators and you'll need to come over here or give me at least four more Companions".
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I'm thinking, have Malarys, Garin, Mind-Dragons, the Asura, and Drow!Assasins, Orphne FeyLord and 3 umbral Stalkers.
That should be enough to at least contain the bullshit Asmodeus put into motion, while everyone else will be on 3 sepearate anti-Tiamat operations.

Crake said:
Mind Dragons aren't stealthy... they're huge.
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Magic bullshit solves that.
 
DragonParadox said:
Here's Ser Richard's book. It's been a long time coming. Not the most interesting or compex description but that is very much in line with his style of writing and I think you guys will like the effects:

Book of Swords
Book of Swords

By: Richard Lonmouth

Description: Bound in a plan leather cover meant to take a decent amount of abuse on the campaign trail rather than impress in the confines of the library this book is filled with plentiful diagrams of swordcraft and nothing in the way of wasted words.

Content: Grants ability to train Occult Slayers, Paragon Knights and potentially other martial initiators as students adapt the Lonmouth Style to their own inclinations and mastery of the blade.
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Oh fuck, we can train more Paragon Knights?! *breathes heavily*
 
Crake said:
Mind Dragons aren't stealthy... they're huge.

Edit: Oh yeah... Alter Self.
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Yeah, I'm thinking maybe that they can use a regular Pseudodragon form, considering their origins, along with a human form.

Gonna need to do a final edit on their sheet before they're decanted.
 
egoo said:
I'm thinking, have Malarys, Garin, Mind-Dragons, the Asura, and Drow!Assasins, Orphne FeyLord and 3 umbral Stalkers.
That should be enough to at least contain the bullshit Asmodeus put into motion, while everyone else will be on 3 sepearate anti-Tiamat operations.


Magic bullshit solves that.
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There is only one Umbral Stalker right now, but we'll be making more in the future, probably one a month (they're very expensive, and thus time consuming to craft) until we run out of shapechanger remains (we have enough for five more). We have six of the lesser Umbral Spies, however, which could still be very useful.
 
Crake said:
Oh fuck, we can train more Paragon Knights?! *breathes heavily*
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DP beat me to mentioning the entry requirements, but we should still have some candidates. I'm on my phone right now, so it's hard to check, but I'm pretty sure Ser Criston qualifies, and Sandor might, too. There are sure to be others soon.
 
Goldfish said:
There is only one Umbral Stalker right now, but we'll be making more in the future, probably one a month (they're very expensive, and thus time consuming to craft) until we run out of shapechanger remains (we have enough for five more). We have six of the lesser Umbral Spies, however, which could still be very useful.
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Ah, yes, those what I meant.
3 on rooting out Spies in Yi-Ti, and 3 on dealing with Asmodeus' bullcrap. Seems good enough a selection to me.
 
Goldfish said:
I'm not quite sure what you mean here. 1200 IM is nowhere close to economical for purely housing purposes.

A large, well furnished home capable of comfortably housing an entire extended family can be built for significantly less than 1200 IM.
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You aren't considering property value. The Inquisitor's Respite is effectively an apartment capable of supporting up to eight people and takes up a negligible amount of space. It might not be worth it out in the country, but at the center of a modern metropolis it's a bargain.
 
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Interregnum said:
You aren't considering property value. The Inquisitor's Respite is effectively an apartment capable of supporting up to eight people and takes up a negligible amount of space. It might not be worth it out in the country, but at the center of a modern metropolis it's a bargain.
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Perhaps one day in the future, but that's a long way off. Also, 1200 IM is our cost. They would cost at least twice as much to purchase.

They're also useless for storing stuff if you ever intend to move them, which is a major downside for permanent residence.
 
Goldfish said:
Perhaps one day in the future, but that's a long way off. Also, 1200 IM is our cost. They would cost at least twice as much to purchase.

They're also useless for storing stuff if you ever intend to move them, which is a major downside for permanent residence.
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Why would they ever be moved? A wealthy landlord could purchase a plot of land at the heart of a major city and then place a order for hundreds of Respites. Presumably, versions that aren't invisible because there would be no need. Instant rental housing for thousands of people without the hassle of building massive apartment complexes or transporting construction materials into the city. Plus, due to the nature of magic items, the apartments would be nearly maintenance free.
 
Interregnum said:
Why would they ever be moved? A wealthy landlord could purchase a plot of land at the heart of a major city and then place a order for hundreds of Respites. Presumably, versions that aren't invisible because there would be no need. Instant rental housing for thousands of people without the hassle of building massive apartment complexes or transporting construction materials into the city. Plus, due to the nature of magic items, the apartments would be nearly maintenance free.
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Uh dude, pure cost wise by that point we would be advanced enough that they could just have Create Demiplane cast on a bunch of plinths like we did with the tower and call it a day.
 
Interregnum said:
Why would they ever be moved? A wealthy landlord could purchase a plot of land at the heart of a major city and then place a order for hundreds of Respites. Presumably, versions that aren't invisible because there would be no need. Instant rental housing for thousands of people without the hassle of building massive apartment complexes or transporting construction materials into the city. Plus, due to the nature of magic items, the apartments would be nearly maintenance free.
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As @Abhishek M mentioned, at that point you are better off having a Greater Demiplane rendered Permanent, then placing a permanent portal Gate for residents to use. At minimum 17th caster level, it would have an internal volume of 340,000 cubic feet. You could easily squeeze 300 or more 10'x10'x10' micro-apartments into that much space, for a combined cost of 9,792 IM.

You wouldn't even need a large plot of land, merely a small entrance/exit area for those coming and going through the portal Gate.
 
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Goldfish said:
As @Abhishek M mentioned, at that point you are better off having a Greater Demiplane rendered Permanent, then placing a permanent portal Gate for residents to use. At minimum 17th caster level, it would have an internal volume of 340,000 cubic feet. You could easily squeeze 300 or more 10'x10'x10' micro-apartments into that much space, for a combined cost of 9,792 IM.

You wouldn't even need a large plot of land, merely a small entrance/exit area for those coming and going through the portal Gate.
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This amount of space is more along the lines of what I consider reasonable for a single person likely paying exorbitant amounts of money mostly for location and still able to live in relative comfort.

I guess 10x10x10 could work as a slightly more spacious capsule hotel, and you can even fit communal facilities those have in there for slightly less apartment space.

Though this is all pretty irrelevant except in the far future, since we're moving in tens of thousands of immigrants per month for basically nothing. In the far future when Sorcerer's Deep has millions of inhabitants we could make a lot of money selling luxury condos to the upper-middle class or students from extremely wealthy families, all stuck inside of an extra-dimensional space. Right now space is no great impediment, though, and there's all kinds of fanciful projects we could spend that crafting time on if we wanted to improve the city.
 
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Crake said:

This amount of space is more along the lines of what I consider reasonable for a single person likely paying exorbitant amounts of money mostly for location and still able to live in relative comfort.

I guess 10x10x10 could work as a slightly more spacious capsule hotel, and you can even fit communal facilities those have in there for slightly less apartment space.

Though this is all pretty irrelevant except in the far future, since we're moving in tens of thousands of immigrants per month for basically nothing. In the far future when Sorcerer's Deep has millions of inhabitants we could make a lot of money selling luxury condos to the upper-middle class or students from extremely wealthy families, all stuck inside of an extra-dimensional space. Right now space is no great impediment, though, and there's all kinds of fanciful projects we could spend that crafting time on if we wanted to improve the city.
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10x10x10 could easily become 10x20x10 or 20x20x10, and so on. I was just using 10x10x10 as an example because it's the same amount available within an Inquisitor's Redoubt.

That same 340,000 cubic feet could be broken up into ten 30,000 cubic luxury spaces with a very nice 40,000 cubic foot indoor shared courtyard recreation area and still cost no more than 9,792 IM for the initial setup.

Or it could be used for retail purposes to create nice little shopping malls.

Lots of possibilities, but like you said, that's more of a future concern when space begins to grow somewhat limited.
 
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