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

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Adhoc vote count started by egoo on Jan 13, 2020 at 1:33 PM, finished with 64 posts and 9 votes.
  • [X] Attempt to have a meeting with Althazi the Deathless - learning his price for use of his forces against Deep Ones, and looking for guarantees he won't establish a foothold on Plane of Balance once those are vanquished
    -[X] Seek the meeting with him or his representative in a neutral territory.
    --[X] If he refuses to meet in a neutral territory, move on to dealing with Mrdja - inquiring about mercenary companies they are aware of, making arrangements to build them a Planar Terminus (a month later than one for Vialesk), offering making Plantforged/Fleshforged creatures to their specifications, etc.
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Artemis1992 said:
Luckily for our wannabe-enchantress Rhaella is leading the case, so she propably won't be torn apart by constructs or dragons.

But seriously, who in this world still goes for Enchantress? Unless you are at the absolutly highest levels most of what you do gets completly cockblocked by PfE.
Saenena is the closest thing we have to a good Enchantress and even she mostly relies on her non-enchantment spells for most foes close to her CR.
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Someone who didn't have a magical education. She probably grew her power blindly.
 
For someone who had so little power over others, learning how to control others makes all kinds of sense. Especially, if the Fey are involved as that sort of irony would appeal to them. The greater irony is that outside her little demesne a mono focus on that school would leave her especially vulnerable to other supernatural threats, particularly the Fey.
 
Nickan said:
Depends on what exactly she is, but generally 9-10. Mind, could be some sort of Fey boon or similar which cares about class level not at all.
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Lovely. That means that either she is powerful enough to cast it her self and has come close to or hit the level 10 cap or fey daddy is giving her magical powers like some kind of Disney princess. Maybe both
 
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Adhoc vote count started by egoo on Jan 13, 2020 at 1:33 PM, finished with 64 posts and 9 votes.
  • [X] Attempt to have a meeting with Althazi the Deathless - learning his price for use of his forces against Deep Ones, and looking for guarantees he won't establish a foothold on Plane of Balance once those are vanquished
    -[X] Seek the meeting with him or his representative in a neutral territory.
    --[X] If he refuses to meet in a neutral territory, move on to dealing with Mrdja - inquiring about mercenary companies they are aware of, making arrangements to build them a Planar Terminus (a month later than one for Vialesk), offering making Plantforged/Fleshforged creatures to their specifications, etc.
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Finally caught up!

Tho only with the story.

We should absolutely go talk to the Giants. How long have we left that dangling?
Goldfish said:
I'm probably wrong, but I still leaning toward this being a Fey problem of some sort, if not an outright plot then at least the result of a bargain.
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It's the Reach.

Blaming the Fey is like blaming Danzö. Odds are, you are right and don't even know it.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by egoo on Jan 13, 2020 at 1:33 PM, finished with 64 posts and 9 votes.
  • [X] Attempt to have a meeting with Althazi the Deathless - learning his price for use of his forces against Deep Ones, and looking for guarantees he won't establish a foothold on Plane of Balance once those are vanquished
    -[X] Seek the meeting with him or his representative in a neutral territory.
    --[X] If he refuses to meet in a neutral territory, move on to dealing with Mrdja - inquiring about mercenary companies they are aware of, making arrangements to build them a Planar Terminus (a month later than one for Vialesk), offering making Plantforged/Fleshforged creatures to their specifications, etc.
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Part MMMCCLXXXVIII: Of Pledges and Profit
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    • Of Pledges and Profit ​

    Fourth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

    Having settled the trade agreement with Vialesk to the the satisfaction and soon-to-be profit of all concerned you turn your eyes to other potential allies. Thanks in no small part to Darleth's exemplary work on crafting fortifications you are less hesitant than you had once been to seek draconic aid against common foes across the boundless Spheres. That said, you do not let hope blind you to the potential peril ahead. Ser Richard would be most disappointed if you found yourself in a battle with an elder dragon and all his hosts on his ground while the knight is off protecting Dany.

    Levity fades as your thoughts turn to your sister preparing the ground for the battle against Tiamat and her pawns. Stay safe, Dany, you send well-wishes that might have been a prayer were there any single god that could assure victory in the trials ahead. You wrench your mind back to the matter at hand. Althazi, called 'the Deathless', lord and god both to his giant-kin subjects... and friendly power to the Emirates of Dawa, Dalaqua and Mardja. Thus you entrust your message for the wyrm with the Mardjan envoy in Vialesk, asking the Emir to pass in on.

    The terms are simple, you wish to meet Althazi or his envoy in a neutral place to discuss the possibility of acquiring his services against the Deep Ones. Though you are tempted to add a starting offer to judge his interest you do not know the skill of Madjan diplomacy well enough to trust them with the details, best step lightly where the pride of dragons is concerned.

    The light of the sunken star waxes and wanes eight times over the Mirror Market before you have your answer, but it is the one you had hoped for, Althazi is at the very least curious about your offer, and from what the marid envoys says, about your very nature, having never encountered a dragon whose nature is flame over his long life.

    All that remained to be decided was the precise location of your meeting. While Vialesk itself would certainly be convenient it would not be very considerate of the Council's lingering worries to embroil the city in draconic negotiations before a single mark of the proposed trading profits found their way into their coin purses, particularly when it concerns an old dragon mostly unknown in the City of Splendid Waves save by reputation. Thus you decide on Bonecrab Reef, a ring reef that serves as an anchorage for ships trading with Dawa and beyond. Still well within Vialesk's territory and host to a significant garrison of the Star Guard, the citizen-soldiers of the city. The commander of said garrison probably is not going to be enthused at the notion of playing host to draconic negotiations, but that worry is far easier to bear than the Council's.

    Thus much to the disappointment of the Moonchaser's, crew who had hoped to sample the wonders of Vialesk a while longer, and the anticipation of Captain Moonsong herself, to whom deeds of renown are more intoxicating than any wine, the ship raises anchor the very next day along the Blooding Current towards Dawa. In spite of the rather gruesome name the water is filled with nothing more perilous than a family of algae that flourishes in the warm mineral rich-waters and the route itself is well patrolled so you likely have two days of quiet travel in the meantime.

    What do you do on the ship?

    [] Learn more about the officers and crew, official briefings will only tell one so much

    [] Take a cue from Lya and read a book, or several. While magic allows one to drink in the knowledge of most tomes in a few moments there is something to be said for enjoying the experience at your leisure
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: I thought about just skipping past the journey, but we do not really have many scenes of Viserys just traveling these days, so I figured this was worth a bit of narrative attention.
     
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    • [ :V ] Travelling is for muggles. Apply superbuffing scheme, lift the Moonchaser and teleport it to the meeting point. Also teleport the dragon. We can't lose time!
     
    [X] Learn more about the officers and crew, official briefings will only tell one so much

    Tomcost said:
    [ :V ] Travelling is for muggles. Apply superbuffing scheme, lift the Moonchaser and teleport it to the meeting point. Also teleport the dragon. We can't lose time!
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    We'd have to use Gate. We can't Teleport so many living people. However if we Awakened the Moonchaser and froze it in amber, it might work!
     
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