the Shadow Fortress is still surrounded by a army's worth of undead Sarnori. Your party just did a raid by the back way.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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the Shadow Fortress is still surrounded by a army's worth of undead Sarnori. Your party just did a raid by the back way.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
That sounds like a good opportunity we can take a stab at later.
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Undead are the peskiest opponents. They can't be captured and sacrificed easily. Could Qyburn devise a capture method for the undead? Something that they could be affected by?
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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Well, all the more a reason to deal with all of the Sarnori Undead next month!
...No, I'm not letting this go.
@DragonParadox, what do we know of the Sarnori Undead's organization/location/leaders, once again?
We had a fair bit of infodump some long time ago, but by now it all probably thoroughly changed.
Amber sarcophagus works fine on the leaders, or at least no worse than for anyone else.
Yi Ti interlude next, so that can be up to date too.
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Quick question @DragonParadox are all the undead sentient or do they have some sort of master controlling them? Like is there undead lords who control the swathes of undead that exist or are they all just sentient and playing a macabre imitation of their life?
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So not even the Bloodraven can get F!Aegon's secret like he did with Varys?
So not even the Bloodraven can get F!Aegon's secret like he did with Varys?
enigma1995
Gentleman Beholder
[X] Goldfish
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[X] Goldfish
Interlude DCCXXXVI: Bloody Mischief
Bloody Mischief
Thirteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC
The dark spirits had been ready to run, of course they were. Things that liked to nest in human skin and souls and rotting them from within rarely fancied risking their own skin. Glyra barred her teeth in anger at the snarling half-ape half-wolf thing that was throwing enchanted mortals in their path while it tried to run, it was fast and it was clever the way it was weakening the wooden floor even as it swung from the rafters with its long double-jointed arms, but Glyra was faster and cleverer. The chain rattled in her hand, the blood-feather weightless as a dream in her back pocket. She could take the high road too.
The joints broke as easily as she had expected, though she had not expected the eyes to explode with enough force to singe her eyebrows.
"Gracious kami-clothed-in-form forgive..." the man behind her swallowed his words as though in fear, though there were no more foes in the room. Oh right... still wearing human guise. Mortals were troubled to see what looked like their children fighting, though for the life of her Glyyra could not say why. Children were after all among the most likely to get into a good scrap, all most of them were missing was the power to do so, and as Dany showed when they got that power they were really fun to be around.
"This way," a piece of wood and ivory paneling exploded under the man's hand, leading into a dark and narrow passage. "I have word that the abomination managed to evade the first thrust and is fleeing. We must be the flame that cleanses this accursed line."
Glyra idly wondered if they were going to miss out on killing the prince of the dark court because the mortals with them needed to use so many words to describe how one of their lords had become corrupted without ever talking about it properly for fear of 'bringing dishonor to those who wear the Blue'.
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Unfortunately, they had not been the only ones who had followed the monster into the bowels of the castle for when they saw the oni, grim and terrible still with skin blue as old bruises and eyes bright as the madness in the heart of a storm, they also saw Vrath broken on the floor. Dead Glyra knew at a glance looking at his neck, though it was clear from the many long thin gashes carved into the giant's chest and legs that the borrowed jade swords had reaped no small price for his death.
He never even noticed the gremlin coming close, wand at the ready. The blast of ice cold magic freezing its limbs in place, that it noticed. The taunt of 'Oi, farts for brain, over here', just made him look at Glyra with particular displeasure. Then it spat lightning at her, well her and everything else behind her, but Glyra was pretty sure the Yi Tish mages and warriors were far enough back not to get hit, unless they were sneakier than they looked which would make it all the more a pity if they got cooked.
Glyra did not like doing the same trick twice, but she really did not fancy being squished by a giant so she slashed the wand through the air again, this time hitting the enemy in the head.
Then some kind of bloody sneaky fellow in black who was definitely not on her side landed on top of her, swinging what looked to all the world like a tool to trim crops. It was plenty sharp enough to almost trim one of Glyra's ears off. Quick on her feet as ever the gremlin smashed the butt of the staff in her left hand into the ground and filled the whole tunnel with stinging bugs. That aught to keep 'em busy...
A bolt of emerald light flickered from behind her, striking the black clad figure stone dead.
"Thanks for the help!" she shouted cheerfully while trying to evade the angry giant's blows.
One... two... three... four... five ribs broken. That was a new personal record, Glyra thought, grinning through the pain. He was still covered in frost.
Even as one of the fellows with the big swords came for the dark, spirit shouting something about a duel, she took aim with the wand again and cast. The giant collapsed shivering.
Vrath was going to be sorry he missed such a good scrap when they brought him back. Glyra wondered why the fellow with the sword looked like he'd bitten into something rotten.
OOC: I thought about doing this from Vrath's perspective, but that would have required one more interlude since this one could not go past his own death and I was not entirely comfortable with writing a character's death as their first PoV scene.
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Did any people from the Azure's own court participate here?
Did any people from the Azure's own court participate here?
I could almost think the fellow who just lost his chance for a nice duel is one of mine, the Emperor's Sword.
Being outclassed rather badly. He was not supposed to slug it out with a CR 16 enemy on his own, he was trying to surreptitiously follow
That is indeed the person Glyra's success left... less than enthused.
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oh wow yeah poor guy, at least he got a few good hits of before he went down
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Huh. Glyra ould have been more imaginative here.
I hopeshe leveled up again after this.
He's a Wind Yai, Glyra is not opposed to low hanging fruit.
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Poor man.
After months of kinda existing in the backround, maybe standing behind his boss while others talk, he had a chance to shine and then a household-pest of a fey was faster.
Glyra would certainly enjoy her victory even more if she knew.
Ever since I read the Disharmony of The Planes infodump, I've been wondering in the background whether there are any ways we could take advantage of The Inevatables being sorta defunct as a planar police force, in a way that:
- We're not already doing.
- Wouldn't further damage the currently fragile spheres.
- Wouldn't be so heinous to them that they abandon their posts and try to kill us, presumably leading to terrible consequences.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Glyra'a talent seems to be in making self-important people look like fools, isn't it?Poor man.
After months of kinda existing in the backround, maybe standing behind his boss while others talk, he had a chance to shine and then a household-pest of a fey was faster.
Glyra would certainly enjoy her victory even more if she knew.
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i mean that's kinda her whole deal isn't it
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Don't worry, Snake Bro, we'll bring you back good as ever. Well, good as ever once you earn enough XP to make up for the level loss from being Resurrected.
Maybe he leveled up already and it will all work out so that he effectively stays at his current level, eh, @DragonParadox?
Always great to see Glyra stirring the pot, too. She truly is the 'Most Powerful Gremlin in the World!(TM)'.
Maybe he leveled up already and it will all work out so that he effectively stays at his current level, eh, @DragonParadox?
Always great to see Glyra stirring the pot, too. She truly is the 'Most Powerful Gremlin in the World!(TM)'.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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We could Wild Arcana a True Resurrection y'know. Cleric spells are on our spell list.Don't worry, Snake Bro, we'll bring you back good as ever. Well, good as ever once you earn enough XP to make up for the level loss from being Resurrected.
Maybe he leveled up already and it will all work out so that he effectively stays at his current level, eh, @DragonParadox?
Always great to see Glyra stirring the pot, too. She truly is the 'Most Powerful Gremlin in the World!(TM)'.
Maybe he leveled up already and it will all work out so that he effectively stays at his current level, eh, @DragonParadox?
Haven't worked that out yet.
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