Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
I'm sure many an enemy archmage will find this to be... "fun".
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Part MMMCCCLXXIII: A Call in the Dark
A Call in the Dark
Sixteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC
Myles Toyne, called the Blackheart, did not have the look of the long dead Ser Terrence Toyne, jug-eared, with a big nose and a crooked jaw that is owed at least in part to an old break healing badly from the look of it, he seems at first glance an ineffective puppet for Connington to rule the company without revealing the dead lord of Griffin's Roost. Then you meet his eyes, they are not any more exceptional then the rest of him, muddy brown and a little red from blows the the head healing magic had not quite mended perfectly, but he does not flinch from your appraisal. This man is no tool and he did not escape the doom of the Golden Company by accident.
"I would ask you to carry a message to one of your former associates, an offer of... conditional clemency," you explain. "What is your relationship with the dragon Lizzirth?" you fully intend to look into the man's mind on the matter to confirm what he tells you, but it would be far more convenient if he were sincere, even if the answer is not what you hope it would be. Red Rolly thought of him as an 'ink fingered clerk' and your realm could always use men with those skills even if you would likely never trust him with any truly powerful position.
"Hardly knew her, Your Grace," the man shrugs, earning a glare from Ser Richard. He has enough trouble hearing Westerosi lords who swore to the Usurper use the honorific, much less sellswords who have thrown their lot in with age old dynastic rivals and dark powers. "Dragons are dangerous ain't they? And a young dragon... well. Children are spiteful little shits and the humans ones don't have claws that cut through bone or breath that melts steel."
A fair point, even if rather undermined by not knowing that much about the way dragons age. "So she would have little reason to trust or distrust you?"
"Begging Your Grace's pardons, but I'm just a man with a bit of magic gild ain't I?" the sellsword asks. "Take that off and you could make what you like of me, say or do whatever you pleased."
You see no reason to keep the disgust off your face. It is not that you had not used compulsion before, but the sort of consistent domination he is describing reeks of Tywin Lannister's idiocy with the Golden Shields. "Willing oathsworn vassals are far more preferable to enchanted thralls."
"Be that as it may, Your Grace, you found me Under the Shadow, not that I wasn't minded to get out of there as soon as I could once I'd been certain you lost my trail. There's plenty 'round there who wouldn't sniff at using me to trap a dragon if they thought they had a chance."
At that you can only bite back a sigh. The only way you can think of to assure the young dragon that you are not controlling Blackheart would be to remove your own protections against divination and it will be a cold day in the City of Brass before you do that. "It only costs a few marks to try..." you drop a sending stone in his hand.
As the stone shatters to dust in his hand the sellsword shakes his head. "No answer, she doesn't trust it."
What do you do next?
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OOC: Really short, but unfortunately there's not much lese I could tie in with this without it feeling jarring
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
Well, it's like Viserys said, it only costs us half an hour and a couple dozen IM to try.
[X] Meet with the rulers of Lorath as they requested.
-[X] Have someone appropriate of your minions look into the shadow-mage that set up a school in "surprising" likeness of Scholarum there.
[X] Meet with the rulers of Lorath as they requested.
-[X] Have someone appropriate of your minions look into the shadow-mage that set up a school in "surprising" likeness of Scholarum there.
- Location
- Texas
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- He/Him
[X] Crake
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
I can't help but think there's totally little point to secreting her away to the City of Brass, other than to squeeze her into the story when we get around to dealing with that plot line in person again. And I can only think "Why there? What does she add to it?"
I guess DP has an idea, but by all rights Azel and Duesal are correct, she should just be a footstool by now. I can see absolutely no Efreeti giving her commiserate protection as her situation actually requires, so she's effectively sold herself into slavery.
I guess DP has an idea, but by all rights Azel and Duesal are correct, she should just be a footstool by now. I can see absolutely no Efreeti giving her commiserate protection as her situation actually requires, so she's effectively sold herself into slavery.
Star_Crosser
A Dreamer of Bizarre
- Location
- Croatia
I can't wait to bring down the Brass Throne
- Location
- Germany
The thing gets even more ridiculous when you consider the other options open to her. Like going to the Djinn or Shaitan.
We would have no legal standing to ger her extradited and murdering her would be a lot of risk to settle a petty grudge.
But for some reason, everyone keeps running to the same shitheaps. Namely Bloodstone, Brass or Brimstone.
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- florida
The incredibly entrenched and powerful magical empires?
Rather than the people who were working together to try and fight one.
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- United States
Yeah, I think some people thought I was joking when I said she'd be a table, but I was dead serious.
Given how much we've been attacking the Efreeti, rather publicly at that, Lizzirth would be nothing but a disposable pawn in the City of Brass. Efreeti don't do fair deals.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
I suspect @DragonParadox's argument against these two options is that the Shaitan would sell their own mother (from our enemies' perspective) if it helps them against their foe, and the Djinn are "too goodie two shoes" that whatever petty demands they make are exactly "too onerous" as the dragon we just recruited was worried about.
I think, ultimately, it comes down to this, just like you said. They're Red Wyrmlings.
So before they have managed to learn several important life lessons, they are simply impulsive shit-goblins of little concern until they grow older, and being impulsive actually becomes viable.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
She was probably relying on ancestral memories and not much forethought when she fled to the City of Brass. The Elemental Plane of Fire is less innately hostile to a Red Dragon than it would be to most other beings, and the ruling inhabitants are less likely to kill her. Of course, they probably wouldn't kill her because they would rather enslave her instead.
I think she'll be someone's pet, probably including a leash and muzzle, rather than a table.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
[X] Crake
Eh, we've given that dragon a chance and she didn't take it. I'm writing her off now.
If we, or our people, encounter her in CoB when we'll be raiding/sieging it... She's dead meat, capture isn't worth the trouble.
Eh, we've given that dragon a chance and she didn't take it. I'm writing her off now.
If we, or our people, encounter her in CoB when we'll be raiding/sieging it... She's dead meat, capture isn't worth the trouble.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Speaking of wonderful horrible things the Efreeti might pull on her, since she came seeking help...
Well, she was made to procreate and continue the Chromatic line, was she not?
It would only make sense for Efreti to... speed up the process, so to say.
Horrible body mutilation and grafting to artificially engage the necessary draconic-aging-switches are mandatory.
For real though, I wouldn't discount the Efreeti using this as a chance to rapidly breed themselves some Draconic forces, if only to stave off the attacks from Djinn and Shaitan. Reds are surprisingly good at operating in PoF.
Well, she was made to procreate and continue the Chromatic line, was she not?
It would only make sense for Efreti to... speed up the process, so to say.
Horrible body mutilation and grafting to artificially engage the necessary draconic-aging-switches are mandatory.
For real though, I wouldn't discount the Efreeti using this as a chance to rapidly breed themselves some Draconic forces, if only to stave off the attacks from Djinn and Shaitan. Reds are surprisingly good at operating in PoF.
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- United States
I could definitely see her being experimented on.Speaking ofwonderfulhorrible things the Efreeti might pull on her, since she came seeking help...
Well, she was made to procreate and continue the Chromatic line, was she not?
It would only make sense for Efreti to... speed up the process, so to say.
Horrible body mutilation and grafting to artificially engage the necessary draconic-aging-switches are mandatory.
For real though, I wouldn't discount the Efreeti using this as a chance to rapidly breed themselves some Draconic forces, if only to stave off the attacks from Djinn and Shaitan. Reds are surprisingly good at operating in PoF.
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- ?????????
@DragonParadox has Joran and the druid twins levelled up?
- Location
- Germany
Depends on how good their Fleshcrafters are.Speaking ofwonderfulhorrible things the Efreeti might pull on her, since she came seeking help...
Well, she was made to procreate and continue the Chromatic line, was she not?
It would only make sense for Efreti to... speed up the process, so to say.
Horrible body mutilation and grafting to artificially engage the necessary draconic-aging-switches are mandatory.
For real though, I wouldn't discount the Efreeti using this as a chance to rapidly breed themselves some Draconic forces, if only to stave off the attacks from Djinn and Shaitan. Reds are surprisingly good at operating in PoF.
They might just hire some Illithid in Paradise to administer that project though.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
This batch was surprisingly dim-witted altogether, wasn't it?
Mayhaps we should insinuate that Grandma's skills have gotten rusty over the years, the next time we meet her
- Location
- United States
I was pretty disappointed. I knew they'd be shit-goblins, but going to the City of Brass really takes the cake.This batch was surprisingly dim-witted altogether, wasn't it?
Mayhaps we should insinuate that Grandma's skills have gotten rusty over the years, the next time we meet her
That said the one that blew itself up didn't seem dumb so much as just outright unlucky. Poor bastard had some abysmal rolls.