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

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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Mar 23, 2020 at 11:33 AM, finished with 36 posts and 7 votes.
  • [X] Lost relics
    -[X] See what lore of the blood mage Lord Uller is willing to share, and whatever he knows of this curse
    -[X] See if you can recover any of Meraxes' bones
    --[X] Offer 10,000 IM (what we paid Lord Brune for Felzath Farseer's bones) and his choice of Valyrian Steel weapon in exchange
    -[X] Learn what the others have managed in speaking to Lady Blackmount and Lord Gargalen
    [X] Lost relics
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@Goldfish, if we can find the Targaryen Islands, I was thinking about setting up a military base there. Mainly to have an air-force base southwest of Westeros and because the place is so isolated that there is zero legitimate naval travel, so the garrison can just immediately shoot everything getting close to it. We could also build your Greater Teleport Chamber there, which has the benefit of housing the rapid response troops away from prying eyes.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Mar 23, 2020 at 11:33 AM, finished with 36 posts and 7 votes.
  • [X] Lost relics
    -[X] See what lore of the blood mage Lord Uller is willing to share, and whatever he knows of this curse
    -[X] See if you can recover any of Meraxes' bones
    --[X] Offer 10,000 IM (what we paid Lord Brune for Felzath Farseer's bones) and his choice of Valyrian Steel weapon in exchange
    -[X] Learn what the others have managed in speaking to Lady Blackmount and Lord Gargalen
    [X] Lost relics
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Part MMMCDIX: Writ in Bone and Sand
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    • Writ in Bone and Sand ​

    Twenty Second Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

    For all you had received unexpected answers in finding common ground with Lord Uller, he does not have much else to say in the matter of the long dead mage. None of their lore was kept through the centuries, not even their name for it was deemed too perilous a secret to carry whole through the years. "If it became known that our House possessed knowledge of blood magic which was used against the dragons we would have earned the enmity of the Crown and the Faith both," the old lord recounts. "I suspect the last of it was destroyed after the Dance. Why keep a dragon-slaying weapon you cannot even use at hand when all the dragons are already dead? What poor seers we mortal men make."

    "If it makes you more at ease, my lord, even a true seer would struggle to see a century and more into the uncharted future," Dany replies with a smile.

    You also make arrangements to recover something of Meraxes' bones, not near as much as you had in Crackclaw Point where you discovered Filzath's bones for House Uller had sold off many of the bones over the centuries, the practice only stopping when Dorne became formally a part of the Seven Kingdoms under Daeron the Good. Still, there are enough bones left over from Meraxes' vast skeleton that you do not count it a poor bargain to part with ten thousand marks for the lot.

    Lost 10,000 IM

    Gained 340 lbs of Dragonbone

    ***​

    Meeting with Lady Blackmont did not go as well as with the Lord of Hellholt, the air of the conversation formal and weary. According to your mother's account the lady was so worried about being outright enchanted that she did not trust her own thoughts on the matter until Elia had half-reasoned half-pressured her into considering the implication of her own fears. 'If you cannot trust your own senses or your own mind you should not be ruling over anything,' she had proclaimed. The shock had finally pushed her into considering the implications of Elia's presence, your actual feelings on Dorne and its culture, as well as the simple practicality of generosity towards those who first aligned themselves with you.

    The fact that Melisandre managed to persuade young Perros Blackmont of the need for moderation and looking to 'the responsibilities that the Lord of Light had already laid out for him' further eased tensions allowing your envoys to depart on civil, if not truly cordial, terms with an assurance from the lady that she would swear her oaths to you when the time came.

    By contrast Tremond Gargalen had greeted Tyene and Waymar with the sort of hard-headed practicality you had expected from accounts of the man. He had been staring at less than encouraging ledgers for months so a meeting to the sound of sweet silver clinking had been just what he was looking for, though he had expected Doran to be the one to do so not your own envoys.

    So far the Red Scales clerks have identified for potential investments the salt pans which give the seat of House Gargalen its name, a marble quarry that has only recently begun excavations and the local sand which is apparently ideal for fine glassware. By all accounts the lord had been most impressed at the speed with which they were able to make the assessment and became very interested in the House of Mirrors when Tyene had explained that they had used divination to point them in the right direction.

    What do you do next?

    [] Receive a report (Interlude series)
    -[] City of Brass Intelligence
    -[] Plane of Earth Investigation
    -[] Write in

    [] Head out to deal with the Houses of the Reach

    [] Perform a minor action
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: And we are done here. Unfortunately we did not get to engage with the tourney much because of how the dice with the Other plot turned out, but hopefully it was interesting enough for the various intrigues and politics.
     
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    • @DragonParadox Does this mean we can safely assume that the Dornish loyalty chart isn't much slanted in any direction but general support? Without Dayne some of the leery pious lords might have made an attempt to talk Doran down but no one seemed particularly like they wanted to rebel against their Prince, and the Prince supports us completely, so without the ability to pressure him into distancing himself from us that essentially means there's not much else we can do to firm up support here.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Writ in Bone and Sand ​

    Twenty Second Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC

    For all you had received unexpected answers in finding common ground with Lord Uller, he does not have much else to say in the matter of the long dead mage. None of their lore was kept through the centuries, not even their name, for it was deemed too perilous a secret to carry whole through the years. "If it became known that our House possessed knowledge of blood magic which was used against the dragons, we would have earned the enmity of the Crown and the Faith both," the old lord recounts. "I suspect the last of it was destroyed after the Dance. Why even keep a dragon-slaying weapon to hand that you cannot use, since all the dragons are already dead? What poor seers we mortal men make."

    "If it makes you more at ease, my lord, even a true seer would struggle to see a century and more into the uncharted future," Dany replies with a smile.

    You also make arrangements to recover something of Meraxes' bones, not near as much as you had in Crackclaw point where you discovered Filzath's bones for House Uller had sold many of the bones over the centuries, the practice only stopping when Dorne became formally a part of the Seven Kingdoms under Daeron the Good. Still there are enough bones left over from Meraxes' vast skeleton that you do not count it a poor bargain to part with ten thousand marks for the lot.

    Lost 10,000 IM

    Gained 340 lbs of Dragonbone

    ***​

    Meeting with Lady Blackmount did not go as well as with the Lord of Hellholt, the air of the conversation formal and weary. According to your mother's account, the lady was so worried about being outright enchanted that she did not trust her own thoughts on the matter until Elia had half-reasoned half-pressured her into considering the implication of her own fears. 'If you cannot trust your own senses or your own mind, you should not be ruling over anything,' she had proclaimed. The shock had finally pushed her into considering the implications of Elia's presence, your actual feelings on Dorne and its culture, as well as the simple practicality of generosity towards those who first aligned themselves with you.

    The fact that Melisandre managed to persuade young Perros Blackmount of the need for moderation and looking to 'the responsibilities that the Lord of Light had already laid out for him' further eased tensions, allowing your envoys to depart on civil, if not truly cordial terms with an assurance from the lady that she would swear her oaths to you when the time came.

    By contrast Tremond Gargalen had greeted Tyene and Waymar with the sort of hardheaded practicality you had expected from accounts of the man. He had been staring at less than encouraging ledgers for months, so a meeting to the sound of sweet silver clinking had been just what he was looking for, though he had expected Doran to be the one to do so rather than your own envoys.

    So far, the Red Scales clerks have identified forpotential investments the saltpans which give the seat of House Gargalen its name, a marble quarry that has only recently begun excavations, and the local sand which is apparently ideal for fine glassware. By all accounts, the lord had been most impressed at the speed with which they were able to make the assessment and became very interested in the House of Mirrors when Tyene had explained that they had used divination to point them in the right direction.

    What do you do next?

    [] Receive a report (Interlude series)
    -[] City of Brass Intelligence
    -[] Plane of Earth Investigation
    -[] Write in

    [] Head out to deal with the Houses of the Reach

    [] Perform a minor action
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: And we are done here. Unfortunately we did not get to engage with the tourney much because of how the dice with the Other plot turned out, but hopefully it was interesting enough for the various intrigues and politics. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
     
    Duesal said:
    @DragonParadox, we're not done. We still need to follow up with Dayne and his septon.
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    That's not really in Dorne, they will both be in SD.

    One Autumn Leaf said:
    Okay so since Dorne is done I am supposed to remind @Crake that the undead graveyard needs to have an eye on it before we can plant a tree on it in the future. However it looks like that was already taken care of right? @DragonParadox
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    It has been yes.
     
    Azel said:
    @Goldfish, if we can find the Targaryen Islands, I was thinking about setting up a military base there. Mainly to have an air-force base southwest of Westeros and because the place is so isolated that there is zero legitimate naval travel, so the garrison can just immediately shoot everything getting close to it. We could also build your Greater Teleport Chamber there, which has the benefit of housing the rapid response troops away from prying eyes.
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    It will be the first of the infamous Imperial Zero Zones.

    [X] Receive a report (Interlude series)
    -[X] City of Brass Intelligence
     
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