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

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Duesal said:
I was just concerned since it seemed like minds were being made up about our approach here when we haven't fully explored other opposing options.
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*cough*
egoo said:
[X] If at all possible, attempt to set up a personal meeting with the Traitor-General of Yi-Ti.
-[X] General purpose: raising awareness on the matters of Golden Company, Illithids, Devils, Bloodstone Emperor acting actively and Long Night coming - ensure that he sees the true dangers to his people - and doesn't interfere with our coming war with Golden Company.
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This month, too.

We'd only really have to look into Sorcerer Lord at some point before we commit to anything major.
 
Crake said:
Protectorate status is a perfectly acceptable end result to me under these circumstances, even if obtaining it takes a few generations. They will still be providing us trade under ideal circumstances, and if they deny us the chance to economically exploi--I mean mutually benefit from financial exchange, we can just... make things difficult for them. Trade tariffs as a start.
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Fortunately Yi Ti is currently in its equivalent of a Warring States Era, so when we get the time a few years down the line we can mop up individual warlords. That empire has always been terrible about keeping its nobility in line, much like Westeros.
egoo said:
*cough* This month, too.

We'd only really have to look into Sorcerer Lord at some point before we commit to anything major.
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Perfect. I'm looking forward to speaking with him.
 
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Part MMMCCXI: Of Hopes Great and Small
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    • Of Hopes Great and Small ​

    Twenty Fourth Day of the Eleventh Month 293 AC

    After securing Rickard back in Sorcerer's Deep, with a mental apology to the cat whose body he had stolen, you check in on the huntsman, alas finding no change. His heart beats and his chest rises and falls with perfectly even breaths, but his gaze is hollow and staring, like the windows of an abandoned house. One in which a thief had made his home. You shudder to imagine a vibrant determined Lady Catelyn reduced to such a husk. Likely as not she had been spotted meeting her elder sister, perhaps even speaking of your plans thus driving the enemy to act in haste. Even with the common disbelief in magic in the fading age Rickard would not have endured this long if he were in the habit of possessing either either Bracken of Blackwood, much less leaving such obvious signs of his passage.

    "Should we grant him peace?" Rina ask somberly. "I've never had to do it myself, but the Silent Sisters are sometimes called to the task when life becomes a burden, the mind darkened and only the body struggling to blindly live."

    Waymar and even Ser Richard look at her in askance. You have never heard of such a thing expressed aloud, but you are a bit less surprised, having read a theological tract or two that could be interpreted in that light. Still, you shake your head. "We leave him as is, there might be a way to restore his mind or soul if indeed it has fled, and even if not the state he is in should at least provide some measure of proof of sorcerous maleficence beyond a cat acting strangely." However, you do take the poison with you lest a servant stumble over it and come to harm.

    It has been a very long time since exhaustion had caught up with you, but this has been a very long day indeed. Had it been twenty two hours since you last slept or twenty three? Judging by how quickly sleep finds you it may have been longer.

    ***​

    The grey light of false dawn wakes you, though no sooner had you opened your eyes to it that you feel Varys' mental prod. A message had arrived from Stone Hedge, short and a touch uncertain in tone, but marked with the twined looping Bs of Barbara Bracken, heir of that House, inviting you to meet surprisingly again in her younger sister's rooms. The letter invokes the greater privacy of the tower, but Lya jests about 'wanting the support of one who has already bearded the dragon', perhaps not without cause.

    "Well then it is fortunate for the lady's peace of mind that I have no beard, it makes a poor showing as the wise sorcerer I am told," you reply in like manner.

    You can feel her laughter against your cheek as she kisses you. "I'll see about getting our not-quite feline friend into some form he can bear witness for when the lords must be spoken to. Getting them to understand him should be easy enough, but I do not imagine he would be minded to do so unless it is to sow yet more strife."

    With that you dress and ready yourself for the day, with Dany, your mother, Ser Richard and Rina once more at your side, as well as Waymar to speak on matters of the First Men and their history, you return to the Riverlands once more.

    "Your Grace, I am glad you could arrive in such good time again," Lady Barbara Bracken is about seven years older than her sister, her words more even from the habit of dealing with an heir's duties, but her voice is low, almost a whisper, as though afraid her father would somehow hear her here. "Catelyn said you had a solution... or a proposal at least for..." now she hesitates, weighing oath against conviction. "The sad state of House Blackwood and House Bracken."

    You lay out the plan just as you had the day before, the cadet branch in Essos, the securing of current borders once and for all, the guarantee of her inheritance by royal decree and if need be by royal arms, but then you also add what you had found last night, the grim tale of Morvin Blackwood and Rickard Stark, and how the latter had carried vengeance in his heart for an age.

    "It's like something out of a ballad," the older Bracken sister shakes her head as though to physically clear her thoughts.

    "More like a dirge really, given how many people have died over the whole of the tale," the younger finishes. "I hope the cat is alright."

    "Catlyn, how can you think of the cat at a time like this?" Lady Barbara asks shocked.

    "Well, it's innocent isn't it?" comes the soft reply. "I figured that if there is hope for it there's hope for the rest of us too."

    "You... you were always too good at convincing me of things." The smile she wears softens, the words giving off a sort of fond exasperation. Turning to you she pledges. "I will support this agreement before my lord father and do my best to argue its merits, and when I am Lady of Stone Hedge, hopefully in a day far off from this one, I will do all I can in the service of healing the wounds between Bracken and Blackwood."

    What do you do next?

    [] Speak to Hoster Blackwood about intervening with his elder bother
    -[] Write in

    [] Speak to Ser Brynden Blackwood directly
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: So far so good, but this was far from the hardest person to convince in this conflict.
     
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    • Duesal said:
    Fortunately Yi Ti is currently in its equivalent of a Warring States Era, so when we get the time a few years down the line we can mop up individual warlords. That empire has always been terrible about keeping its nobility in line, much like Westeros.
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    I don't think this point gets acknowledged enough, the question of will we being put aside we are perfectly capable of conquering parts of Yi To within a timeframe similar to the Three Sisters.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    "Well than it is fortunate for the lady's peace of mind that I have no beard, it makes a poor showing as the wise sorcerer I am told,"
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    Must.
    Not.
    Permanence.
    Ironbeard
    School transmutation; Level antipaladin 1, cleric 1, magus 1, paladin 1, ranger 1
    CASTING
    Casting Time 1 standard action
    Components V, S
    EFFECT
    Range touch
    Target creature touched
    Duration 1 minute/level
    Saving Throw Fort negates (harmless);
    Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
    DESCRIPTION
    This spell causes a brushy beard of stiff iron to erupt from the face of a willing target. The ironbeard grants a +1 armor bonus to AC, and this bonus stacks with any armor worn by the creature. The ironbeard may also be used as a weapon equivalent to cold iron armor spikes. The ironbeard makes it difficult to speak, so any spellcasting with a verbal component has a 20% spell failure chance.
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    Crake said:
    Silverbeard would match our hair.

    [X] Speak to Hoster Blackwood, while you are confident you could make the approach to Ser Brynden yourself, Hoster is deeply involved in this situation and might have more to say on the matter, insight only one who's very family is at stake could provide.
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    I imagine there would be some raised eyebrows when people started seeing a Red Dragon sporting a bitchin' silver beard. :p

    [X] Crake
     
    [X] Crake

    And tbh, I would be more inclined to support the Orange Emperor if we hadn't gone out of our way to assist the Azure Emperor, we've sunk a lot of effort into his court already. Orange would be next best but we haven't interacted with him yet to my knowledge, and Yellow... yellow is definitely something spooky even if he isn't Hastur or a Hasturian minion, so he'd be my last choice in Yi Ti.
     
    Crake said:
    More likely that would be reflected in our dragon form by some of our facial scales being silver-colored.
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    @ Be Viserys.
    @ Vibrant     red scales, fitting for a Wyrmling, but is Adult-sized.
    @ Flowing molten     Gold sipping through said scales.
    @     Silver facial scales/horns.
    @ Claws are covered in     Valyrian Steel.

    @ Everyone be like:
     
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    egoo said:
    @ Be Viserys.
    @ Vibrant     red scales, fitting for a Wyrmling, but is Adult-sized.
    @ Flowing molten     Gold sipping through said scales.
    @     Silver facial scales/horns.
    @ Claws are covered in     Valyrian Steel.

    @ Everyone be like:
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    A metallic dragon. :V

    edit: also, is having that vibrant color the draconic version of being baby faced? Sure it looks cool to the mortals, but how do other dragons see it?
     
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    egoo said:
    @ Be Viserys.
    @ Vibrant     red scales, fitting for a Wyrmling, but is Adult-sized.
    @ Flowing molten     Gold sipping through said scales.
    @     Silver facial scales/horns.
    @ Claws are covered in     Valyrian Steel.

    @ Everyone be like:
    *What the fuck is that*
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    Your new king and emperor, sadly-non-draconic-meatbags.
     
    Zioneer said:
    [X] Crake

    And tbh, I would be more inclined to support the Orange Emperor if we hadn't gone out of our way to assist the Azure Emperor, we've sunk a lot of effort into his court already. Orange would be next best but we haven't interacted with him yet to my knowledge, and Yellow... yellow is definitely something spooky even if he isn't Hastur or a Hasturian minion, so he'd be my last choice in Yi Ti.
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    Playing them off of one another is definitely a good tactic. We can accomplish the general area not being on fire while also making sure that neither of them achieves total control of the region. Granted, the Azure Emperor is basically a glorified puppet for all intents and purposes and it's unlikely to the extreme he's going to go on a conquest spree.
     
    BronzeTongue said:
    A metallic dragon. :V
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    "By the power of superb WBL combined, I am Captain Planet Prismatic Dragon!"


    PRISMATIC DRAGON
    Type:Dragon (Light)
    Environment:Any land and underground
    Organization:Wyrmling, very young, young, juvenile and young adult: solitary or clutch (2–5); adult, mature adult, old, very old, ancient, wyrm, or great wyrm: solitary, pair, or family (1–2 and 2–5 offspring)
    Challenge Rating:Wyrmling 14; very young 16; young 22; juvenile 30; young adult 34; adult 39; mature adult 43; old 48; very old 52; ancient 57; wyrm 61; great wyrm 66
    Treasure:Double standard
    Alignment:Usually neutral
    Advancement:Wyrmling 24–27 HD (Huge) HD; very young 29–32 HD (Huge) HD; young 34–37 HD (Gargantuan) HD; juvenile 39–42 HD (Gargantuan) HD; young adult 44–47 HD (Gargantuan) HD; adult 49–52 HD (Gargantuan) HD; mature adult 54–57 HD (Colossal) HD; old 59–62 HD (Colossal) HD; very old 64–67 HD (Colossal) HD; ancient 69–72 HD (Colossal+) HD; wyrm 74–77 HD (Colossal+) HD; great wyrm 79+ HD (Colossal+) HD
     
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