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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:
The Valyrians are also described as not caring that much about colonial efforts, both in canon and in ASWaH. They absolutely could have cleared a great swathe of the land, but it would have been ruinously expensive, in lives and money.
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And land which has been scoured to bare dirt by Dragon fire isn't really good for much once it's all said and done. IIRC, soil in rain forests is actually pretty bad once the trees and other plants of the rain forest ecosystem are cleared without a lot of dedicated effort.
 
Goldfish said:
And land which has been scoured to bare dirt by Dragon fire isn't really good for much once it's all said and done. IIRC, soil in rain forests is actually pretty bad once the trees and other plants of the rain forest ecosystem are cleared without a lot of dedicated effort.
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They could have made it good soil, granted, but it would take copious magic and persistence, and again, the Valyrians had the greatest breadbasket in the WORLD in their own capital's hinterlands. The Lands of Long Summer were so verdant and fertile the Reach would have been envious.
 
Goldfish said:
5 to 6 months would be more realistic for Mance's efforts to bear fruit.
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Well, we won't be waiting that long for sure.
We'll have Illithids and Efreeti war to deal with by that time, and no Moonchasers really freely avaliable again.

Well, what can one do - removing the part about them reaching out to other tribes, then.

[X] You will support him for a time being, ensuring he has the funds and the resources to guarantee his people's safety-
-[X] But in approximately 2 to 3 months we shall evacuate them, and any other Wildlings we can, from the lands Beyond the Wall.

G'night all.
 
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egoo said:
Well, we won't be waiting that long for sure.
We'll have Illithids and Efreeti war to deal with by that time, and no Moonchasers really freely avaliable again.

Well, what can one do - removing the part about them reaching out to other tribes, then.

[X] You will support him for a time being, ensuring he has the funds and the resources to guarantee his people's safety-
-[X] But in approximately 2 to 3 months we shall evacuate them, and any other Wildlings we can, from the lands Beyond the Wall.
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Egoo, we don't need airships to evacuate people already by the coast. You understand that, right? We'll have a navy nearly as big as some of the greatest canon ones mentioned, not just the standards of ASWaH thus far. In another year we'll have to seriously consider building more shipyards.

Or we could just abuse demiplanes if escorting passengers over the Narrow Sea has your paranoia gland stuck in your gardlenslench.
 
Crake said:
Egoo, we don't need airships to evacuate people already by the coast. You understand that, right? We'll have a navy nearly as big as some of the greatest canon ones mentioned, not just the standards of ASWaH thus far. In another year we'll have to seriously consider building more shipyards.

Or we could just abuse demiplanes if escorting passengers over the Narrow Sea has your paranoia gland stuck in your gardlenslench.
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...no, I don't understand that.
Shush.

*flees in shame over not thinking about the situation beyond drawing the comparison to Thenns and going from there*
 
*shakes head*

[X] "I will ensure your people have ample trading partners, and give you personally all you will need to forge ties between the tribes, to assuage pride or ward against folly. But I do not want to arm raiders, Mance. Tools you will get. If someone threatens you for which force alone compels you to fight and die or flee, bronze arms and arrows I shall grant you. Enough to begin to fight against man and simple beast, but not enough to allow breakaways to do more harm than good." You hand him a Sending Stone. "If is worse than men who have set their sights on Hardhome, use that and call upon me, and I will come down upon Them with wrath and ruin either myself, or sending my Companions."
 
[X] "I will ensure your people have ample trading partners, and give you personally all you will need to forge ties between the tribes, to assuage pride or ward against folly. But I do not want to arm raiders, Mance. Tools you will get. If someone threatens you for which force alone compels you to fight and die or flee, bronze arms and arrows I shall grant you. Enough to begin to fight against man and simple beast, but not enough to allow breakaways to do more harm than good." You hand him a Sending Stone. "If is worse than men who have set their sights on Hardhome, use that and call upon me, and I will come down upon Them with wrath and ruin either myself, or sending my Companions."
-[X] This will also be with the understanding that Mance will seek to actively prepare his people for the idea of resettling in Essos. We won't set a hard time limit on this effort, but the sooner he manages it, the better it will be for all involved.
--[X] We will revisit the issue in three months to determine his progress. In the meantime, he will have his 10,000 IM and additional support beyond that in the form of food, materials, and magical aid, but our assistance is contingent on progress and can be withdrawn if Mance's plan does not seem to be working.
[X] Once Mance is taken care of, set up a meeting with either a powerful enough servant or manifestation of Weeping Lady of Lys' power to ask for aid against Tiamat.

@Crake, I yoinked your plan.
 
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Goldfish said:
[X] "I will ensure your people have ample trading partners, and give you personally all you will need to forge ties between the tribes, to assuage pride or ward against folly. But I do not want to arm raiders, Mance. Tools you will get. If someone threatens you for which force alone compels you to fight and die or flee, bronze arms and arrows I shall grant you. Enough to begin to fight against man and simple beast, but not enough to allow breakaways to do more harm than good." You hand him a Sending Stone. "If is worse than men who have set their sights on Hardhome, use that and call upon me, and I will come down upon Them with wrath and ruin either myself, or sending my Companions."
-[X] This will also be with the understanding that Mance will seek to actively prepare his people for the idea of resettling in Essos. We won't set a hard time limit on this effort, but the sooner he manages it, the better it will be for all involved.
--[X] We will revisit the issue in three months to determine his progress. In the meantime, he will have his 10,000 IM and additional support beyond that in the form of food, materials, and magical aid, but our assistance is contingent on progress and can be withdrawn if Mance's plan does not seem to be working.

@Crake, I yoinked your plan.
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@Goldfish, can you add our next action to this?

[] Set up a meeting with either a powerful enough servant or manifestation of Weeping Lady of Lys' power to ask for aid against Tiamat.
 
[X] Goldfish

Skane is beyond the Wall so it would make a good place for a quick stop for any fleets messing around beyond the Wall. Would it be possible to set up a teleportation Circle of Skaagos and just boom them to our area. I don't feel comfortable with the Ithillids and such.
 
In three months hopefully Mance will have enough wildlings that we can start evacuating.
One Autumn Leaf said:
[X] Goldfish

Skane is beyond the Wall so it would make a good place for a quick stop for any fleets messing around beyond the Wall. Would it be possible to set up a teleportation Circle of Skaagos and just boom them to our area. I don't feel comfortable with the Ithillids and such.
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Skane is indeed a nice and strategically relevant port, though we have Skagos as well thanks to Bloom diplomancing the lord for us.

[X] Goldfish
 
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Goldfish said:
Don't forget to vote, y'all.
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So those Brilliant Barrier projectors on the Moonchaser, I just realized, are Command Activated variants? So they can throw up a Barrier each turn, and each one lasts 10 rounds according to the spell. So then the twin projectors can combined maintain x20 thirty-five square foot barriers, or start to overlap them and create a tapering shell.

Or even funner, multi-layer the barriers. Imagine a Hell Hulk with a Wave Motion Gun gleefully charging up its Fuck-You-Beam, only to hit a Brilliant Barrier, melt right through it in less than a second, then another Barrier... and another... and the one behind that. It melts through sixteen Barriers pretty much right away, slows down on the seventeenth, starts stalling on the eighteenth, slowly cracks the nineteenth, and pitifully (in comparison) melts through the last one. The hardened steel hull behind it is lightly scorched.
 
Crake said:
So those Brilliant Barrier projectors on the Moonchaser, I just realized, are Command Activated variants? So they can throw up a Barrier each turn, and each one lasts 10 rounds according to the spell. So then the twin projectors can combined maintain x20 thirty-five square foot barriers, or start to overlap them and create a tapering shell.

Or even funner, multi-layer the barriers. Imagine a Hell Hulk with a Wave Motion Gun gleefully charging up its Fuck-You-Beam, only to hit a Brilliant Barrier, melt right through it in less than a second, then another Barrier... and another... and the one behind that. It melts through sixteen Barriers pretty much right away, slows down on the seventeenth, starts stalling on the eighteenth, slowly cracks the nineteenth, and pitifully (in comparison) melts through the last one. The hardened steel hull behind it is lightly scorched.
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Or possibly sheath the entire Moonchaser in what effectively amounts to a force field, one with Hardness 20 and 70 HP per 175 square foot section.

I think 20 individuals Brilliant Barriers properly organized, with each covering 175 square feet, could cover an entire Moonchaser? That's 3500 square feet of coverage.

Maintaining that would require constant attention from the operator of each projector, but I'm sure they could manage at least during combat engagements.
 
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