[X] Crake

No martyrs. We can probably make it up to the Wanderer's Lantern easily enough.

Edit: Maybe we can borrow an idea from Kingmaker and fund a few traveller's hostels. She would probably like that, and it's good for trade anyway.
The idea behind the messenger services we are building everywhere is to serve as those. It's basically the idea of roman mansiones. You have stations along the important roads, each roughly one day of foot or horse travel apart, offering food, drink and a cot.

For larger travelling groups such as caravans or wagon people you have enough room for them to set up shop for a while. If not at this station then near the equally abundant guard posts.

Travelling along Imperial Highways is insanely safe and comfortable for the age.
 
[X] Crake

Originally I was leaning towards Duesall, but Crake's latestes edit swayed me towards this as the benefit of having a priestess of a member of the soon to be Imperial Pantheon heal a problematic lord seems like good PR, potential gratitude from lord Dayne, and helps us fend off a potential false flag attack.
 
warhammer fantasy god of stuff including luck, he has been messing with the advisor quest since they chooce him as their characters god
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Mar 18, 2020 at 4:06 PM, finished with 99 posts and 26 votes.

  • [X] "Heal him." You may regret it, to be honest, but anyone brazen enough to assassinate a high lord in the middle of a tourney has some greater intrigue at work than pure opportunism. Better to suffer the consequences of being too free with magic on those who might resent the help than allow your enemies to succeed.
    -[X] Dany will pose as a Moonsinger priestess invited by Doran to share some lore in exchange for more in return. You'll have to apologize to the Goddess for the subterfuge later, you have zero interest in allowing Dany's good deed to be claimed as a miracle of the Seven.
    [X] Let him die, offer Doran to resurrect him later
    -[X] Hunt down the assassin and get to the bottom of this
    -[X] Make a note to give minor titles to Lord Fowler's daughters as a show of our appreciation for his loyalty, there are plenty of small plots of land they could rule in Essos
    [X] Heal him.
 
It was a pretty clean attempt. I am impressed.
If he's not outright supernatural he's at minimum a proper assassin PC to have managed a shot like that against Dayne.
An attempt. Because he didn't stay dead. In this day and age, an assassin ought to destroy the body so it can't come back
The Others and the Bloodstone Emperor probably have a few nice weapons capable of soul-killing stashed away. I'm looking forward to those coming into play.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Mar 18, 2020 at 4:06 PM, finished with 99 posts and 26 votes.

  • [X] "Heal him." You may regret it, to be honest, but anyone brazen enough to assassinate a high lord in the middle of a tourney has some greater intrigue at work than pure opportunism. Better to suffer the consequences of being too free with magic on those who might resent the help than allow your enemies to succeed.
    -[X] Dany will pose as a Moonsinger priestess invited by Doran to share some lore in exchange for more in return. You'll have to apologize to the Goddess for the subterfuge later, you have zero interest in allowing Dany's good deed to be claimed as a miracle of the Seven.
    [X] Let him die, offer Doran to resurrect him later
    -[X] Hunt down the assassin and get to the bottom of this
    -[X] Make a note to give minor titles to Lord Fowler's daughters as a show of our appreciation for his loyalty, there are plenty of small plots of land they could rule in Essos
    [X] Heal him.
 
Part MMMCCCXCVI: Frost Upon the Summer Land
Frost Upon the Summer Land

Twenty First Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

"Heal him, disguised, Moonsinger," Only four words are sent back across the ether, knowing that even moments could make the difference between life and death. You might regret this, but anyone brazen enough to assassinate a high lord in the middle of a tourney has some greater intrigue at work than pure opportunism. If Dayne has some objection to having his life saved my magic you would rather deal with that then letting the intrigue continue unopposed.

A moment passes, longer than you had anticipated. You quickly explain what you had heard to the others, the good cheer of the meal fading like dew at midday.

Ser Richard curses under his breath at the idea of Dany alone near an assassin. "Should have kept Clegane with her."

You forebear from mentioning that Sandor Clegane is many things, but not subtle down the twisting paths of Sunspear is not one of them. Still, the four of you wait.

Finally another thread of thought, another sending stone used. "The arrow was cursed, my healing spell almost made him rot from the inside out. Caught it just in time to break the curse and cast another."

Definitely more than an opportunist, you realize. It would have taken strong magic indeed to warp Dany's healing, particularly as she would not have used any less than her best to thwart an assassination. "We are coming to help. "

You cast first glamours to make you all unseen to any but the sharpest eye, then spells of flight so that your translocation would not have some unwitting passerby trip over you and last a spell of scrying, not upon Dany who is warded, but on the marked stone she would have deposited near her after healing Dayne.

***​

A moment later you are elsewhere, looking down upon a crowded intersection built around an old fountain in the Rhoynish style, long since dried. Ser Andrew Dayne looks much as you recall him, save perhaps for a few new lines of worry upon his brow with a warrior's manner and bright blue eyes looking upon your sister's hastily donned disguise with wariness but also gratitude. "Pardon, my lady, I have to go after her," he says gruffly.

"Her?" Dany prompts. "You saw the assassin. Did you recognize her?"

"Damn right I did," Ser Andrew looks around the growing crowd. "As the Father is my witness it was Jeyne Fowler, acting on her father's orders no doubt." Whispers rippled through the crowd. Worry, anger, but also doubt, but you do not suspect the knight of deception. He certainly saw someone who looked like the heir of Skyreach, but that says little when you could take on that guise with a thought through spell or enchantment.

Keeping with her disguise Dany feigns ignorance of Westerosi politics and instead leans down to reclaim the arrow loosed in the attack, or rather the shaft, the tip seems to have been broken, melted away. "Have you ever seem her use arrows such as this?" There is a tenseness behind the words that is not in the least feigned.

You send Varys lower to carry messages unheard. The message she carries back sends a chill down your spine in spite of the hot Dornish sun. "The markings on the shafts look fey, but twisted. Winter's work I think."

"I did not look in her quiver," the knight says shortly, before taking a deep breath and to your further surprise bowing to Dany. "Your pardon for the haste, my lady, but I must bring word of this treachery to Prince Doran."

What do you do?

[] Show yourself in some guise to help investigate
-[] Write in

[] Have Dany stop the knight
-[] Write in

[] Send Winter unseen with word to Prince Doran before Ser Andrew can arrive in the keep
-[] Write in

[] Write in


OOC: Some great rolls from Dany this update.
 
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"Damn right I did," Ser Andrew looks around the growing crowd. "As the Father is my witness it was Jeyne Fowler, acting on her father's orders no doubt." Whispers rippled though the worry, anger, but also doubt, but you do not suspect the knight of deception. He certainly saw someone who looked like the heir of Skyreach, but that says little when you could take on that guise with a thought through spell or enchantment.
:facepalm:

Wonderful.

He announced exactly what the assassin wanted him to announce. Still, props to a very clever and apparently powerful assassin playing the idiot lord like a fiddle.
 
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