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

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Crake said:
We are slacking on princess collecting, to be honest. Even our maiden count is somewhat abysmal.
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ryuan said:
That's because we don't eat them, so we don't need to collect them every month or so.
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Well once we make a kid with Lya we could get another princess, technically we could make as many princesses with her as we want with a little effort. The one of perks of royalty is personal princess production after all.

We are also are operating on a catch and release princess program too, you know let them back out into the wild so they can give birth to more princesses later. Yes it does deplete our princess count in the short term but that is the price of being an Eco-conscious dragon. We need to preserve the princess population for future generations, it is a bit of a thankless task but it is worth it.
 
Evaunit02mark1 said:
Could we just burn them all and be done?

I'm not exaggerating here, I like demons more than I like the Fey, and those assholes are trying to kill everyone.

At least when a Demon kills me it's because it actually hates I exist, not because it was bored and wanted to hear the song of a babbling brook by snapping my neck open and listen to the sound of me drowning in my own blood instead of stepping three feet into the bushes to look at the brook babbling right fucking there.
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I think you are mixing up Demons and Daemons.

Demons are from the Abyss and want to murder you and the rape the corpse for funsies.
Daemons are from Abaddon and want to murder you because you have the gall to be alive.
 
Azel said:
I think you are mixing up Demons and Daemons.

Demons are from the Abyss and want to murder you and the rape the corpse for funsies.
Daemons are from Abaddon and want to murder you because you have the gall to be alive.
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Well alive and and intelligent being, Daemons do not really care about wiping out say mold and bugs.

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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Mar 19, 2020 at 4:59 AM, finished with 64 posts and 12 votes.
  • [X] Dany explains that if they would go through the trouble of using such a powerful curse to ensure his death even against strong healing magic, they could have easily afforded a convincing glamour. Why would Lady Fowler risk assassinating Lord Dayne wearing her own face if she can acquire something this rare? Unspoken is the fact that it doesn't seem likely anyone at all in Dorne possesses these resources in abundance in the first place, much less obscure death magic objects.
    -[X] She offers to accompany Lord Dayne to the Palace and lend her skills to an investigation.
    -[X] Meanwhile you are going to try and locate that assassin with all the resources available to you while Winter carries word ahead to Prince Doran.
    -[X] Viserys, in the guise of one of Prince Doran's mages, will Wild Arcana a Touch of History, as well as casting Hindsight and making use of his Psionic Gloves of Object Reading, upon the arrow in order to gain a lead in the investigation.
    --[X] Further spells to track the culprit will be considered once more information is gathered.
    -[X] Tyene will warn the Fowlers of the plot along with Waymar.
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Azel said:
They could go on to grow and become intelligent though. They might be lower priority, but in the end, Daemons want the entire Universe destroyed completely.
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True but Daemonic self-loathing is such that most would prioritize killing their fellow daemons, if other forms of intelligent life were wiped out. Somwhat short sighted but no one said they were perfectly rational.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Mar 19, 2020 at 4:59 AM, finished with 64 posts and 12 votes.
  • [X] Dany explains that if they would go through the trouble of using such a powerful curse to ensure his death even against strong healing magic, they could have easily afforded a convincing glamour. Why would Lady Fowler risk assassinating Lord Dayne wearing her own face if she can acquire something this rare? Unspoken is the fact that it doesn't seem likely anyone at all in Dorne possesses these resources in abundance in the first place, much less obscure death magic objects.
    -[X] She offers to accompany Lord Dayne to the Palace and lend her skills to an investigation.
    -[X] Meanwhile you are going to try and locate that assassin with all the resources available to you while Winter carries word ahead to Prince Doran.
    -[X] Viserys, in the guise of one of Prince Doran's mages, will Wild Arcana a Touch of History, as well as casting Hindsight and making use of his Psionic Gloves of Object Reading, upon the arrow in order to gain a lead in the investigation.
    --[X] Further spells to track the culprit will be considered once more information is gathered.
    -[X] Tyene will warn the Fowlers of the plot along with Waymar.
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Part MMMCCCXCVII: Empty Visions
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    • Empty Visions ​

    Twenty First Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

    To your eyes flames gold, crimson and black dance around Dany's still form as she grants herself blessings of silvered tongue and good fortune before reaching out to stop Lord Dayne before he can rush away. "My lord, do you not think it strange that an assassin whose arrows possessed so potent a curse that my prayer almost failed to heal you would be wearing her own face? Glamour is the easiest of magics of spells to weave. Why would Lady Fowler..." she forms the name slowly as though it is wholly foreign to her, "strike from hiding and flee at once yet wear her own face for you to see?"

    "Because she thought I would be dead and wanted me to know who killed me," Ser Andrew replies, mouth forming into a hard line of disdain. There is some older grudge behind this, you realize.

    Have the Daynes and Fowlers been feuding recently? Doran will know and with Winter on his way carrying a message you have no doubt he will be prepared.

    Dany hesitates, feigning reluctance before explaining: "Death alone would not have kept your bones from revealing what you saw."

    "Allyria would not have allowed my body to be touched by such sorcery," the words are less certain than the Lord of Starfall might perhaps have wished them to be.

    Dany does not comment upon the fact, turning towards the looming mass of the Sandship. "I would accompany you to the palace if you would allow me, my lord. It would be an ill thing if my goddess' blessing were squandered in a second attack."

    Surprisingly Lord Dayne takes the notion that he might need protecting from the priestess of a foreign goddess with equanimity, even a small nod of respect. "Very well, I will consider the possibility that it was not Je... Lady Fowler," he says before calling for the watchers gathered around to clear the way.

    Such an uncommon slip of the tongue. After sending Tyene and Waymar back to Lord Fowler to warn him of the plot you take on the seeming of a Dornish mage, the robes crisp and bright saffron yellow, but forgettable of face. Though the crowds had only somewhat thinned with Lord Dayne's departure the the people move out of your way even more readily then his, more with respect than fear in their eyes you are glad to see. Prince Doran has manged to make magic and those who use it acceptable quite well. Hopefully present circumstances do not damage that goodwill.

    Reaching for the arrow to try to feel the echo of ownership upon it all you feel is cold so terrible it burns, silence so deep it pains the mind to contemplate. If you had any doubt before you do not now. This is the hand of the Enemy of all life, but subtler than anything you have felt from them before. When you try to read the past of the place rather than any object, you can only pick out the empty space where they had stood upon a nearby rooftop by where the thin branches of the pomegranate had been pushed aside before suddenly springing back as the assassin fled.

    Warded against divination. You bite the urge to curse aloud and rush to the rooftop. There are signs of blight and frost scarring everywhere you look, withered leaves and cracked branches, nothing the plants here would not be able to heal, but they would certainly remember what they saw. Recalling the feeling of a leshys' whispered magic you call out to them in a soft voice to ask what had harmed them.

    "Hollow one... cold... cold... empty one... cold... breathes too slow... empty one... moves too sure... stumbles."

    You try to question your 'witnesses' as to the last contradiction but there is nothing more they can say, there is no intelligence to converse with only a vague understanding of the wrongness that had brushed against them.

    The next news you hear makes for grimmer hearing. Tyene's words along the mind link from the Fowler townhouse. "Jeyne Fowler vanished from her room some time in the last two hours."

    What do you do next?

    [] Meet with Doran and Lord Dayne

    [] Look for the missing Lady Fowler

    [] Write in

    OOC: The plot thickens.
     
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    • That's certainly something.
    A half-undead like Garin maybe?

    Would explain the slow but existing heartbeat.

    @DragonParadox
    If R'hllors plan to become the Other's opposite force works, would they get a similar action/reaction relation as the OGs have now?

    Because an other-sourced assassin with a similar condition to Garin appearing right after Burny let our friend go seems somehow fitting in such a pattern.
     
    Artemis1992 said:
    That's certainly something.
    A half-undead like Garin maybe?

    Would explain the slow but existing heartbeat.

    @DragonParadox
    If R'hllors plan to become the Other's opposite force works, would they get a similar action/reaction relation as the OGs have now?

    Because an other-sourced assassin with a similar condition to Garin appearing right after Burny let our friend go seems somehow fitting in such a pattern.
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    Viserys does not know enough about R'hllor to hazard a guess IC. You could try to ask him though Melisandre.
     
    let's first try to see where lady Fowler went and hope against hope they forgot to also mindblank her if it wasn't her but corrupted by winter which let control go hence the stumbles. but god damnit bloody others. either this is a half dead assassin type deal or it's someone possesing people again
     
    I've been curious about something? Couldn't we track with nonmagical means like a beast that can follow the scent?

    We don't make use of non-magical skills nearly enough.
     
    [X] Look for the missing Lady Fowler.
    -[X] Tracking the trail of the assassin themselves would be a start, you have a spell in mind which can allow you to trace scents as keen or keener than any hound.
    -[X] Having Tyene and Waymar try to ascertain Lady's Jeyne's movements among friends or family over the last couple hours and following up on that would be wise.

    I trust Dany to handle herself.
     
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    Artemis1992 said:
    Do you have an idea how to approach the hunt?
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    I was still thinking about it, but using Bloodhound to follow the trail we were given would be a start. Not really got a short list of spells we could use for it.

    If they were still wearing Jeyne's face then tracking 'Jeyne's movements over the last couple of hours would probably be a good idea.
     
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