A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Goldfish
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She wants to be special, and right now it doesn't get much more special than being magical. Jon is magical, Arya is magical, etc. It probably seems like a natural progression for Sansa.
EDIT: @TalonofAnathrax, there is also the possibility that Sansa is as magical as a lead door stop. That would be amusing.
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This is a bit of a spoiler, but I might as well add this since there is confusion.
She is scared, scared of the world changing of not being able to find her place, of being helpless and well she asked Rob what to do, he said 'want to learn magic?' because that is what made sense to his eleven year old brain after hearing Jon's stories about Dany.
Sansa latched on to that as something she could do to fit in, to help somehow. Add in the lack of company and those books are getting some use in. Also it bears remembering that she was a warg in canon, there's a bit of magic to Sansa Stark just like her siblings.
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Crake
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@DragonParadox I don't know what's funnier, Viserys briefly mistaking someone's academic interest in Lya's body for flirtation, or that in the same paragraph he seems to think it's not at all unusual for strangers to be academically interested in her body. 😂
egoo
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Having thought on it, no, there is no way we are pulling off a victory in a month against the Squids.
So we are guaranteed to have to raid the mint at the same time as warring Squids.
Because we promised to be ready by a certain time, and both Djinn and Shaitan apparently planned lots of shit around that.
And almost guaranteed we'd still face sacking of CoB around the same time when Westeros boils over.
But oh well, what can one do.
[] 1st month priorities: destroy Quohor's Fleshforge (sneak in, kill the landwarden and damage the controlling systems, get tfo); kill off Sarnori Undead Kings; maybe either dealing with Hag-drow in silver mines or going to Valyria;
[] 2nd month priorities: Squid war, all hands on deck, shit's hitting the fan.
[] 3rd month: we are due to raid the City of Brass' mint and then run a ritual to break all their currency.
Oops, we are still dealing with squids.
[] 4th-6th months: Westeros' gonna boil over, time to start on Reconquesting shit.
[] 5th-7th month - City of Brass is likely getting sieged by now, we have to take part.
On top of that all, we also will have to fit in doing another diplomatic tour around all the Marid emirates to get them on board fighting the Efreeti - after we deal with Squids most likely tbh.
Kinda sad we cant afford to grab the anvil without fucking up our political image, but we worked hard so far to keep ourselves in good light.
We need the people here to fight the Squids and the Efreeti.
Who knows, maybe we'll pull off good enough show at the conference that even Kelasi will pour some for es in.
So we are guaranteed to have to raid the mint at the same time as warring Squids.
Because we promised to be ready by a certain time, and both Djinn and Shaitan apparently planned lots of shit around that.
And almost guaranteed we'd still face sacking of CoB around the same time when Westeros boils over.
But oh well, what can one do.
[] 1st month priorities: destroy Quohor's Fleshforge (sneak in, kill the landwarden and damage the controlling systems, get tfo); kill off Sarnori Undead Kings; maybe either dealing with Hag-drow in silver mines or going to Valyria;
[] 2nd month priorities: Squid war, all hands on deck, shit's hitting the fan.
[] 3rd month: we are due to raid the City of Brass' mint and then run a ritual to break all their currency.
Oops, we are still dealing with squids.
[] 4th-6th months: Westeros' gonna boil over, time to start on Reconquesting shit.
[] 5th-7th month - City of Brass is likely getting sieged by now, we have to take part.
On top of that all, we also will have to fit in doing another diplomatic tour around all the Marid emirates to get them on board fighting the Efreeti - after we deal with Squids most likely tbh.
Kinda sad we cant afford to grab the anvil without fucking up our political image, but we worked hard so far to keep ourselves in good light.
We need the people here to fight the Squids and the Efreeti.
Who knows, maybe we'll pull off good enough show at the conference that even Kelasi will pour some for es in.
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There's a limit on canon D&D races since DP wants to flesh out the ones we've got already.
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that's fair it's just becouse of the Yaenits that i thought about them again
egoo
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...we are making Kobolds, does that count?
But yeah, kobolds were there originally, they just... died off mostly, and we have Saenena's research allowing to rebuild them.
That aside, no, obviously nonhuman races haven't been seen much in the setting - there are rat-people under King's Landing (kinda sad they don't have Skavens' speech-impediment), there are youkai in the far-off reaches of Yi-Ti, there are some half-fey
But not really the generic fantasy races.
Elves are a thing on Plane of Air tho', the air-variety ones.
To be fair, she's essentially walking around broadcasting her status as the soul magic equivalent of a soft sci-fi style cyborg for people with the eyes to see it.
All the divination protections probably make it worse for the kind of people liable to be interested in (and capable of understanding) her research. The difference in approach might not be that significant; high magic and a mystery are probably more enticing to the kind of people that end up as high level int casters than anything physical could be.
Crake
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Viserys is just lucky that he has the equivalent of a library with rare limited edition books inside of his head. It's hard to compete with that.
So are the water variant ones.
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Ludicrously bloated and overloaded. Also, ludicrous in of it itself. Beat the Illithid in one month? Really?
Goldfish
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No, he's saying that we can't possibly do that, so we're going to be engaged on multiple fronts for an indeterminate period of time early next year.
egoo
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2 months.
But, yeah, we are going to be in 2, maybe even 3-way war soon enough.
I'm giving the Squid-war 2-3 months, while efreeti getting sacked... probably 4-6 months with us doing our ritual. And then there's Westeros in 5 months' tops.
Sarnori undead and Quohor are just the things I feel like we don't have the reason to leave to chance, since we'll be in hard enough place with all other efforts.
If we can mitigate the risks by some hit-and-run before we start other wars...
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Should be decades, but it's probably my brand of wishful thinking that ASWAH might ever return to a reasonable time-frame or not be strangled by it's own bloated narrative.
None of these plots has the air to breath necessary to actually do itself justice. Instead we end centuries to millennia long wars in "2 to 3 months".
It just reeks so much of Mary Sue Comes To Fix Things...
Goldfish
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I don't think we'll be actively warring against the Efreeti for very long, not for five or six month, @egoo. The end of that conflict should come sooner than that, with the Shaitan and Djinni involved. We'll mostly need to defend ourselves from reprisals, IMO.
Fighting the Deep Ones is definitely going to take more than two to three months, though. Even once we clear them out of the Narrow Sea, they still have multiple fortified cities in the northern oceans above Essos.
Fighting the Deep Ones is definitely going to take more than two to three months, though. Even once we clear them out of the Narrow Sea, they still have multiple fortified cities in the northern oceans above Essos.
egoo
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That was more of a road-map to "when we'll start a war with X", than "how long we fight X before we win".
Ergo "squids in the 2nd month, Westeros in the 4th to 6th month based on our luck, there's a raid to CoB in the 3rd month and it'll likely get sacked by the 6th month".
And to be clear, @Azel, by "winning" against the squids all I mean is "we destroy the saghuin-producing facility and try to attack the Elder Brain".
Just fucking them over about enough that they won't manage to fuck us over when we move over to Westeros.
I'm well-aware they are beyond our capability to ever fully clear out of the oceans, there are thousands of illithids on Plane of Balance after all.
Some overgeared, gith-supported, mercenary-supplemented attacks might just take out one or two of the biggest complexes though, and afaik, that's what we've been preparing for.
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The Efreeti and Shaitan have been fighting a mostly Cold War for centuries, with skirmishes and proxies battles making up most of the conflict. It was only the entry of the Djinn into the conflict which broke the stalemate and allowed the Shaitan to start actively pushing the Efreeti. We've helped on that front, but mostly just with tactical strikes and Intel gathering. That will continue to be our principle role, even beyond the raid on the CoB. We have a lot of concentrated power, but not enough ability to project it across an extraplanar war.
The Deep Ones, on the other hand, are going to take a while to root out of Planetos' oceans. Our best hope in doing that with any sort of alacrity is uniting the denizens of the Plane of Water to help us, along with getting assistance from the Githzerai monasteries (which will be contributing a lot of anti-Deep One specialists, many of whom are mid to high level PCs) and the genies once the Efreeti are handled.
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tarrangar
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The war against the Efreeti has already gone on for some time, and the Efreeti are at a rather major disadvantage, what with the fact that the Shaitan and Djinn have united against them, sure the Efreeti are the strongest genies, but they aren't even twice as strong as the Marids(if the Marids were totally united) being beset by both the Shaitan and Djinn is seriously pushing them, us adding our forces is just a minor thing in comparison, but they're so pressed that it makes a big difference.
And with the Illithids, at absolute most we might be able to mostly push them out of the Plane of Balance, which is a side project for them, taking the Plane of Balance was a neat side project, that they dedicated 1 Eldar brain and a few thousand Illithids to, they are one of the dominant forces in both Elysium and Nirvana, they probably have a hundred if not a thousand times as much power on each of those planes, and dozens if not hundreds of operations, similar in scope to the Plane of Balance across the other planes.
So us throwing them out of the Plane of Balance, mean nothing more than us getting some breathing room, while the Elder brains discuss, which of them get to try to succeed where the brain we killed failed.
Part MMMCCCXI: A Whiff of Peril
A Whiff of Peril
Ninth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC
The more you hear about the anvil the more you ponder what uses you could put it to, what secrets you could learn from it. Yet for all that you did not forge a crown nor gather allies near and far by trying to cut political tangles with fang and claw or burn them in dragonfire. Better to depart now, perhaps you can learn more about the artifact when Aikaterine visits the library in Sorcerer's Deep, perhaps the current troubles would sow the seeds of opportunity, but for now at least you do not see the point of meddling further. After bidding farewell to the axiomite sorceress you fix in your mind the image of the Moonchaser's command deck once more and cross the countless leagues of water between.
Moonsong is much as you have left her save perhaps more proud of her ship, if that is possible. "We didn't get attacked by any sort of proper monster, but there were these glamoured acid spewing barnacles," she begins with an enthusiasm you doubt anyone could match given the subject matter. "They started chewing through the hull, but the daily divinations caught them before they could do any real structural damage. Thing is, we had to go out and scrape 'em off and there were these ghost-fish things with glowing tentacles that know to attack anyone who comes off to scrape the barnacles...."
"Ghost fish?" Lya interjects intrigued. "Actual specters, or just ethereal?"
"They weren't whining about being dead," the fey captain shrugs. "All I know is that they just melted away when we got rid of them, no corpses for the Forge..." she turns to the ship's senior marine, a grey bearded fellow whose's battered face bears the scars of a lifetime as a sellsword before joining the fleet. "Some people were complaining about the lack of a corpse bonus when I was composing the song to our glorious victory."
"I was only looking for gold, the better to toast you, Captain," the fellow replied with a smile that reveals enough gold teeth to buy a middling farm.
"You did get samples of the barnacles, I trust?" you ask.
"Sure, not like they could run off," Moonsong laughs.
Once you receive a full accounting it, it is your turn to recount what you had found while the Moonchaser made its way along the trade currents. Moonsong is not best pleased to hear about the circumstances of the conflict between Kelasi and Galzerai as it bodes rather poorly for her odds as a dragon slayer, but she is quick to speculate if she could sneak in and rescue the hostages from the dragon, or steal the anvil from the marid, either seems to suit her just as well.
Thankfully, before the fey captain's musings about robbing potential trade partners can get too, far you see the Jewel of Dawa shinning in the distance. A shard of blue-green crystal that expands and retracts in jagged and uneven contours to a rhythm as reliable as the tides. Tt illuminates a ring city of ivory and pearl, one of the oldest and most storied realms of the marid, if not as strong as Zerbat nor as rich as Mardja. From what you have been able to gather in Vialesk the locals are likely to be formal and prideful, prickly of their secondary role in the alliance with Zerbat but not overly wary of dragons.
What do you do?
[] Present yourself to the emir's court
-[] With an offer of trade
-[] Proposing alliance
-[] Write in
[] Seek out more mercenaries and adventurers
[] Write in
OOC: Not the most interesting encounter the Moonchaser could have had, but still a bit more experience for the crew.
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Goldfish
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.