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

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so i am reading th efleet desings and i gotta say the sultan's tribute bombs fill me with joy becouse that is damn funny to me
 
Rovos said:
oh that is fun, .... what the hell would happen if you drop one of them in the sea of fire
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I can't remember exactly, but I think DP ruled that the Brown Mold from one of the Sultan's Tributes can only grow to a certain distance before maxing out. I think it was a hundred feet?
 
so random question after looking at the larder, what are we going to do with the greater intelect devourerer with was also a psion becouse it is noted to be a sacrifice to ejmpower the well by the merlin king but well that didn't happen so what are we ganna do with it
 
Rovos said:
so random question after looking at the larder, what are we going to do with the greater intelect devourerer with was also a psion becouse it is noted to be a sacrifice to ejmpower the well by the merlin king but well that didn't happen so what are we ganna do with it
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It will be dissected for psionic research.
 
Rovos said:
so random question after looking at the larder, what are we going to do with the greater intelect devourerer with was also a psion becouse it is noted to be a sacrifice to ejmpower the well by the merlin king but well that didn't happen so what are we ganna do with it
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No current plans that I can recall. It'll probably just end up as another sacrifice some time down the line when we need to feed Yss or the OG.

EDIT: Or dissected for research purposes. :ninja:
 
After that stunt we just did (diminishing Tiamat), further attacks will be a) in the shadows) and/or b) with overwhelming force.
 
Goldfish said:
Yeah, @Destrark's map of Sorcerer's Deep is really great. He drew it in such a way as to leave plenty of room for growth, and while there is more stuff we could add to it, such as additional Steam Cannon batteries, it's not really very out of date, despite not being changed in over a year.

IIRC, he used MS Paint to make it.
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Rovos said:
i know of at least 3 new temples and 1000 feet tree that aren't on the map :p

how the hell is that ms paint it looks so good
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Its photoshop.
 
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  • [X] Plan Delegation
    -[X] Place Aegon in a Smoky Confinement bottle using a spell scroll, if he hasn't already been, then store the bottle in Viserys' cloak.
    -[X] Interrogate prisoners
    --[X] Tyene and Malarys will interrogate the living prisoners using Brain Spider spells.
    --[X] Viserys will Teleport back to Sorcerer's Deep with Richard, Teana, a Mind Dragon, and the Seeker. Once there, they will relocate to the Divination-proof room in the Shadow Tower, divest Aegon of all of his gear and any remaining warding spells or contingencies, then Feeblemind him and use a Greater Bestow Curse to reduce his Wisdom attribute to 1 before plundering his mind with a Brain Spider spell.
    -[X] Question the dead by magic
    --[X] Dany and Lya will questions the dead using Speak with Dead spells duplicated using Inspired Spell.
    -[X] Questions will be focused on learning:
    --[X] What, if any, contingencies the Golden Company and Tiamat may have put in place to go into effect in the event of their defeat, destruction, or merely as acts of spit.
    --[X] What hiding places, safe houses, bolt holes, and hidden resource caches they know of? In conjunction with this, where might we find any prominent members of the Golden Company or servants of Tiamat who escaped?
    --[X] The identities of any collaborators or otherwise compromised individuals (blackmailed, enchanted, etc) working for the Golden Company or Tiamat, especially those in Westeros or western Essos.
    --[X] Any plots which may be underway in other locales.
    --[X] The full capabilities of the Prismatic Drakes loaned to the Golden Company by Tiamat, including their weaknesses, standard equipment, riders, etc.
    --[X] Any additional information they can give us on the surviving Dragons who fled the battle, especially Lizzirith.
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Part MMMCCCXLIII: Unburied Secrets
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    • Unburied Secrets ​

    Thirteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

    Aegon will not relinquish his secrets easily you learn upon your return to Sorcerer's Deep. When you had been traveling to spheres beyond this one he had been exploring the world of the mind, or dreams. But he did not dream as Dany did, spreading her wings through that strange realm where it reflected echoes of a thousand souls. Aegon it seems had built a fortress of his own mind, a hall with a thousand doors and a thousand secrets to which only he held the keys. Had Tiamat aided in the raising of them, you wonder, or was this his arcane masterpiece, like Lya's soul forging or Dany's weaving of dreams in the world of flesh?

    It is not an altogether comfortable comparison to make between the cursed unconscious boy shaped into a monster's weapon and your dearest kin and allies, but it is an obvious one. You will not be getting the answers locked in Aegon Blackfyre's mind save by his own will, by daring the perilous trek through the halls of his mind, or, as Malarys points out, by the intercession of another god.

    Waymar is scowling and the tightness around Dany's mouth shows that she is not best pleased with the suggestion. "I'm not altogether happy with the notion of feeding him to Yss, it's what we do to elder fiends and immortals, not..."

    Not children who had been drowned in darkness, the thought does not need to be voiced for all of you to hear it.

    "It's what we did to Tor," Lya speaks up unexpectedly. "Tor whose friends we still share drinks in the evening with sometimes, and we did it for much the same reasons. He would have been too dangerous to leave his soul loose for his master to recover. Aegon... well we can't even get answers from him, how could we possibly trust him enough to leave him alive?" She is unnaturally still and you suspect that elsewhere in the city another body, another face, shows emotions she does not wish to reveal here.

    "What if..." Waymar begins slowly. "What if we just fed those parts of his mind, of his soul to Yss, cast them out and leave him as he was before he even heard the name Tiamat? The thing about his mind, his soul, is it's unnaturally ordered, but if we can find the cipher to get our answers we can just tear down the parts of him that are 'King Aegon' or whatever he wanted to call himself and just leave a boy like any other, the one he was three years ago."

    "No!" Dany practically shouts. "That's horrible, to who he is now, to who he would become. Just not being would be better than that." She shudders and looks at Waymar, struggling for a moment to find her words. "It's just the idea of anyone doing that to me... 'fixing' me by some personal notion of what my 'best self' would be is horrid. I would rather be gone. I would rather be in Hell than that."

    "Sorry," Waymar mutters with a sad shake of his head. "I should just keep to stabbing people, shouldn't I?"

    "No harm done," you say firmly, turning to Tyene. "What did you find from the other prisoners?"

    "There is something in the south, talk of dead kings. Our friend the necromancer only knew what he was able to overhear and wring from tattered wraiths and the priests we captured were not the highest in Aegon's counsels so they knew even less, but we were able to get a few answers from Connington. The Band of Nine has risen again in Sothoryos, risen in death, them and all the exile slavers too who fancied carving a new realm instead of being beggars at the gates of other Free Cities."

    "The most foolish among them, the most wicked," Dany helpfully qualified the exiles, but you are not in the mood for jests.

    "Is there any part of our family history whose rotten corpse will not be dug up and paraded through the streets?" you sigh, unable to even muster anger, though that will soon change.

    Leto flickers into being in the center of the room, and you know before she even opens her mouth that it must be grave. The Sisters of Vengeance are no more likely to lightly interrupt an interrogation than they would a royal feast. "The Queen has been attacked, she is unharmed but shaken."

    After rage comes relief, after relief gratitude that they choose to present the matter in this order.

    "Who?" Dany asks, her voice almost a hiss.

    "A shadow dragon, he took human form and infiltrated the wyvern hangers, the Queen was there with but one other to guard her, the knight Bonifer Hasty..." She goes on to recount the whole harrowing tale from the Stormlander knight using your mother's token of translocation at her own request to try to seek help in the library to the chase through the sky and the intervention of the wyverns.

    "The dragon escaped," your voice sounds hollow in your own ears. Strange how finding out that someone had resurrected Maelys the Monstrous could suddenly dim in importance besides the fact that a bloody servant of Tiamat had attacked your home, had nearly... you can barely thing about it.

    "She's safe," Dany says, squeezing your hand gently. "We'll get the bastard and... make armor out of his hide."

    Alas, that proves easier said than done. Your mother shares the experience over a cup of tea, held a little too tightly in her hand, though you are hardly one to judge, but even having seen the memory of the dragon you cannot scry him, the familiar empty grayness looking out from the surface of the mirror.

    "But we could see all the shadow dragons at the fortress," Tyene says angrily. "They would have had no reason to divest themselves of that ward."

    "Unless it's not an item or a spell, but a place," you note. "A bolthole. Perhaps when we find some of the other missing mages or officers we can discover..."

    A messenger raven lands on the table between you and your mother and caws its message clear. Baelon and his exploration fleet had found the Risen Nine and not just by word of mouth.

    "How are things in Yi Ti?" you ask across thousands of leagues to Amrelath whom you had left in command of dealing with the last of the Golden Company. Not the most glorious task, but the prospect of being the first to their pay chests had enticed the dragon.

    "There is no army left," he replies. "There might be a few apprentices scurrying in the ruins, but I doubt they interest anyone. All the lesser priests have been confirmed dead."

    What do you do?

    [] Pull back forces from Yi Ti and deal with the Risen Nine

    [] Send some aid against the Risen Nine, but keep looking for boltholes and escaped mages, they can't all be as prepared as that damnable dragon

    [] Write in

    OOC: A lot of things happening this update, hopefully it's not too tangled.
     
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    • MTB said:
    After that stunt we just did (diminishing Tiamat), further attacks will be a) in the shadows) and/or b) with overwhelming force.
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    Why not both? If they're pissed enough the deep ones could probably pull off some assassination by way of cruise missile.

    For example, they could use infiltrators to pick up some city we've never heard of, then kidnap a bastard relative of one of the companions with mortal family to use as the focus of a fuck off huge sacrificial blood ritual.

    Even if the target companion survived, having everyone related to them spontaneously detonate/eat a 6 point Wis loss or something would certainly interfere with their combat effectiveness.

    It'd be all kinds of bullshit, but there's plenty of room between "steal the plot from Changes" and trying regular (if high CR) assassins or Skum invasion hordes.

    It's not like we haven't benefited from huge blood magic rituals, and turnabout is fair play. We should probably see if we can buy some family protection plans off of Yss for stuff like that at some point.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    "There is something, in the south, talk of dead kings, our freind the necromancer did knew what he was able to overhear and and wring from tattered wraths and the priests we captures were not the higehst in Aegon's counsels so they knew even less, but we were able to get a few answers from Conington. The Band of Nine has risen again in Sothoryos, risen in death, them and all the exile slavers too who fancied carving a new realm instead of being beggars at the gates of other free cities."

    "The most foolish among the most wicked," Dany helpfully qualified the exiles, but you are not in the mood for jests.
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    That's inconvenient, but hey, more XP.

    Also I'm very impressed with f!Aegon's mind. @DragonParadox, how can we make a Companion's mind that fortified?
     
    So, points of interest:

    [] Grabbing personal items of any escapees not noted dead or captured.
    -[] Casting a Miracle to gather blood/hairs/skin may just be enough.

    [] Using the gathered posessions to Divine upon, and capture the escapees. Anyone Mindblanked and not available via blood/hairs/skin...
    well, Clerics and Dragons we'll get to, and wizards, we'll have to leave be.

    [] Divoning on Mi dblanked targets whi are such thanks to Tiamat. Using Well of Eternoty as a foci.

    [] Talking to that Shugenja elder, trying to part on amiable terms.


    The last is just really because I dont want more problems in Yi-Ti if we ever send more agents.
    We arent their allies, but we arent... really... Azure's allies either.
    We aren't here to get into their politics, just to kill shit dead.
    @Crake, agreed?
     
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    egoo said:
    So, points of interest:

    [] Grabbing personal items of any escapees not noted dead or captured.
    -[] Casting a Miracle to gather blood/hairs/skin may just be enough.

    [] Using the gathered posessions to Divine upon, and capture the escapees. Anyone Mindblanked and not available via blood/hairs/skin...
    well, Clerics and Dragons we'll get to, and wizards, we'll have to leave be.

    [] Divoning on Mi dblanked targets whi are such thanks to Tiamat. Using Well of Eternoty as a foci.

    [] Talking to that Shugenja elder, trying to part on amiable terms.


    The last is just really because I dont want more problems in Yi-Ti if we ever send more agents.
    We arent their allies, but we arent... really... Azure's allies either.
    We are here to get into their politics, just to kill shit dead.
    @Crake, agreed?
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    you forgot to loot whatever is left of the camp to the bedrock
    also reviving our fallen minotaurs and Erinyes
    also sending people to help against the nine in the south, at least a few erinyes
     
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