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It was an oversight in one of the mass tree growth votes. Whoever made that vote didn't realize the Shadow Tower fortress at the Wall already had one of these trees.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Speaking of keeping deals and granting magic...Have we starting purging Trios as a religion yet? Gotta keep best snek happy.
Goldfish
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I believe that was handled as a background action. IIRC, the plan was to prohibit the organized worship of Trios, disclaiming that it wasn't a true faith, but not to prevent individuals from practicing it, if they so choose.
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Should have been in the background. Not to mention the whole "godless are damned to the hells" thing, which that sentient wax golem would have had explained to him to make him properly motivated to dismantle the fake religion.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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All this says to me is you could separate a dragon from the blessing, not that you could separate the blessing from Tiamat. That's free floating energy. We could not even stop those clowns, the Seven, who are about as sharp as a chipped brick, from calling back the power they invested in Baelor.
It's just not happening. You can't rely on Gods to save you in this setting, but you can rely on them to be penny pinching magpies who must have formed the original conceptual inspiration for "adventurers".
Goldfish
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Having stepped on a piece of chipped brick as a child, I think your comparison might be insulting to broken masonry everywhere.
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The original conception of the plan was tossing one of the Red Dragon Wyrmlings to Yss, having him consume the power, and then having him grant us a Mind Blank item as our reward.
It'd be in keeping with the way we dealt with Baelor as well. The Seven did indeed try to call back the power they invested in him, but we managed to sacrifice him before that happened, and the Old Gods successfully stole that Kingkiller template.
Granted, this is a bit further away from the newer surgery idea.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Yeah, sacrifice was alway the base idea on dealing with them.
It is just that now we have a semi-decent chance at cutting them off her if they immediately surrender once we dial on them.
I mean, aside from the Sorcerer one, who has already gone and ignored the warning, so she's not getting the courtesy of being offered a choice.
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Lizzirth can probably be flipped, she's shown an unusual amount of willingness to work with humans. Of course we'd go though an interrogation beforehand. The other two Reds are probably closer to bog standard, and will presumably end up getting themselves killed soon enough.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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I don't think she was even there.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
You know you've achieved genuine Death World status when you can say that a pair of Red Dragon Wyrmlings released into the wild are more likely to die than survive their "childhood".
So, yay Planetos? 🤔
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When the ecosystem reaches a point where all the deady things murder each other:
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I mean, Lizzirth I'd say is a lot more cautious and proactive since she's trying to get class levels. But standard Red Dragon Wyrmlings won't put in the work. They'll try to shove their weight around. And anything nearby smart enough to realize what they are is also going to decide going on a dragon hunt now is a hell of a lot easier than waiting, say, a few centuries. Dragons only become more powerful with age.
The Mind Blank only protects the Reds from us. It doesn't save them from the rest of the world.
Interlude DCCXXXIV: Of Chivalry and Trust
Of Chivalry and Trust
Thirteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC
Dragon's Roost, Sorcerer's Deep
Rhaella Targaryen, once Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, now sorceress dragonrider and envoy to her son's straying bannermen, did not know how to do this, did not know which words to speak. If there were even any right words one could to convey the sentiment she wished. She glanced at the man at her side doing his best to pretend he was looking out the window at the returning wyverns. Back from a secret mission the pilots had not even known was in the wings, back from destroying the Golden Company and the Blackfyre pretenders once and for all.
And now you are considering foolishness that might end with just as great a stain on the House's honor, the small nasty voice at the back of her mind noted, the one that sounded a little like Aerys, but mostly like her first septa who had chastised her for letting a young Alric Chyttering 'steal kisses' from her in the gardens when she had been five and he had been six. Both of them barely knew what kisses were other than something the fair maiden was supposed to give the gallant knight, but that harpy had treated the whole thing like they had been caught in flagrant delicto. She had even made a note to tell Rhaella the boy had died of the flux two years later, letting it be understood that it had been his poor moral character than had lead to his doom.
But you are not considering anything quite so innocent now, are you? She studied the knight beside her, making inconsequential smalltalk out of pure reflex, letting most of her mind wander. He was not objectively the most handsome man she had ever seen. Rhaella had seen beauty that was born of otherworldly blood and sorcerers intent, that could entrance the mind without a single spell uttered upon the beholder. He looked tired, but content with a job well done. The troupe of Malicious fey had been dealt with, the men and women they had tricked and frightened into aiding them left free to live out their lives, the ones who had enjoyed the fey's cruel games dealt with in a sterner manner. It had been an honorable judgement, a merciful one, yet still it weighed on him, she could read it in the way his voice caught slightly as he recounted the names of those guilty, in the way he remembered all the names.
What was one supposed to say? I find the way you worry about doing the right thing appealing. The way your eyes cloud over with worry and with weariness makes me want to kiss it all away? That was a thing for minstrel's songs and maiden's sighs, and even if all dreary practicality were cast aside and she were to somehow forget that she was not some girl with stars in her eyes. It was the thing one said to a man who was courting you, but somehow for all the times they had found themselves alone walking in the godswoods or standing by the window talking of things small and great, of everything from gods and magic to lordships and the games of court he had never asked.
So ask him yourself, a voice that definitely did not sound like her old septa noted. Kiss him yourself. It took all the skill of decades under the sharp eyes of the court to keep the blush off her cheeks.
Just as she was about to do the first, though certainly not the second, the door creaked open. Rhaella's graciousness slipped a moment as she glared at the servant, but as she met the man's dark eyes a shiver went down her spine... fear and something else, recognition.
"It seems Tiamat smiles upon me still," he said, lips shaping words not of any mortal tongue though one Rhaella spoke just the same. The being, for this was no servant and indeed no man no matter the guise he wore, gestured towards her and in the same tongue uttered a spell to bind her shadow to earth beyond the power of the charm she had been reaching for to carry her away.
"What...?" the knight began, hand already on his sword.
"Enemy, dragon!" Rhaella shouted, not wanting to waste more words than that which could be used for magic. A moment later she had taken wing, twisting through the air.
Ser Bonifer, to his credit, did not hesitate a moment, spellsteel cutting through the air with an angry hiss to strike the false servant in the upper arm. A thin stream of smoking blood marred the Myrish carpet underfoot, but the enemy hardly seem to notice. Again the shadows twisted, this time to bind her physically in place, but this time she was ready, her will cutting through the tangle of blackness. She tossed the token she had kept in hand to Ser Bonifer even as she launched herselt towards and hopefully through the glass of the window.
"Get help!" she shouted, knowing with the utter certainty of deeds seen under the light of common day and dreamed in visions of power both that the two of them were not a match for this thing, this servant of the monster that had tried to enslave her daughter.
For a long moment Bonifer just looked at her in shock, talisman in hand. He is not going to do it, he is going to stay and fight and die, Rhaella thought with horror.
Amid the glittering bloody fragments of glass she saw him ripple away.
Now I just have to live long enough for help to get here. She dove for the nearest wyvern, a looming shadow just behind her.
OOC: Poor Rhaella, she thinks of kissing a man just because she finds him attractive for the first time in decades and she gets interrupted by a shape-shifted dragon under Cloak of Khyber trying to capture her for sacrifice. Good thing she passed that first Sense Motive check. With a surprise round on the dragon's side she would have had practically no chance.
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egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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>_>
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Snowfire would have raged at this attempt
Well, at least we can't say the dragon didn't go for a high-priority target, eh? Not necessarily smartest move, but isn't too stupid either.
I'll have to fiddle with assignment of bodyguard-Erynies some more it seems, I didn't even think of Rhaella as one needing an Erynie shadowing her while we are busy killing "shit-too-dangerous-to-take-her-with-us".
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Snowfire would have raged at this attempt
Well, at least we can't say the dragon didn't go for a high-priority target, eh? Not necessarily smartest move, but isn't too stupid either.
I'll have to fiddle with assignment of bodyguard-Erynies some more it seems, I didn't even think of Rhaella as one needing an Erynie shadowing her while we are busy killing "shit-too-dangerous-to-take-her-with-us".
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Pretty much. Ignoring their nature, which makes them born assholes, a Red Dragon Wyrmling is a CR 4 miniature murder machine, as large as an adult human, capable of flight, and fire breath.
The only reason something like that shouldn't be able to survive is if it goes around pissing off more powerful beings or tries to bite off more than it can chew.
The poor Shadow Dragon would have had better luck going after important administrators and weaker casters. Why go after someone who can put up enough of a fight for help to get here?I think this'll end in failure.
Tiamat would have found an offering of clerks and petty mages less than appropriate. He needs something big enough to justify abandoning the Shadow Fortress
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- Germany
He has good odds to kill her in one round.The poor Shadow Dragon would have had better luck going after important administrators and weaker casters. Why go after someone who can put up enough of a fight for help to get here?
Her armor is quite literally meaningless before him and her HP few.
Either a proper attack, or an Eldritch Blast with a few buffs (Maximised, or Empowered or Mortalbane) would finish her.
Going for the capture might have been a mistake though, but that's Tiamat's greed for you.
If he pulls off sacrificing Rhaella, Tiamat will likely draw him into his own corner of the Abyss to reward him. If he does not... well he probably ends up there anyway just in a less exalted position.
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Damn, they're only CR 4? This quest has given me a seriously skewed perception of CR.
It's just really unfortunate since at this stage I don't see it ending in anything but failure for the Shadow Dragon, and I was hoping he'd have some form of damage inflicted on us.
Hopefully he fights smart and realizes he should just kill instead of capture at this stage.
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
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- Indonesia
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...my desire to recruit the scaled cunt has dropped.
Nay, 'plummet'. It has fallen to the abyss. And now my WRATH is echoing through it's cavern.
MAKE HIM SUFFER!!!!!
Nay, 'plummet'. It has fallen to the abyss. And now my WRATH is echoing through it's cavern.
MAKE HIM SUFFER!!!!!
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- Earth
Simply killing her would cost us a rez.
Capturing her ends with her soul in Tiamats Hoard.
That takes an Epic Level quest to solve. Also would be more Mythic Levels and another spanking for Timmy.
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@DragonParadox, what does the Shadow Dragon need to do to properly sacrifice Rhaella?