[X] Azel
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Crake
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They will probably just smile knowingly. It makes far more sense after all if an Mythic Dragon Sorcerer was responsible.
I think that even if the fey find out that it was really Viserys instead of the Beautifully Bodacious Bard Buttercup, they'd still have a headache and a half trying to figure out why he's doing all this. What's the benefit to having the niece beat the uncle. Was it to get the Reach into debt with the fey? Is Viserys going to use that debt somehow? Should they charge more because of that? Should they try to make the debt less to foil Viserys's plans?
Twisty minds could easily come up with hundreds of possible 'why's' for Viserys to just 'randomly' drop a boatload of magic on a little girl, and I know my immediate thought wouldn't be because Viserys was goofing off.
Twisty minds could easily come up with hundreds of possible 'why's' for Viserys to just 'randomly' drop a boatload of magic on a little girl, and I know my immediate thought wouldn't be because Viserys was goofing off.
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Crake
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This is totally Viserys just goofing off.
Well yeah, WE know that. But they fey don't. Which I think makes all of this even better.
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The Fey Knight already suspects who we are.
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Yes but to be fair, that might be mortals or other non fey thinking about it. Fey seem the most likely to accept "because it's fucking hilarious," as an anwer.
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No.
Fey in particular will totally understand just doing this for fun. Dressing up as a harmless wanderer and punishing impolite people is the kind of thing Fey Lords do in their free time.
Dragons, Fiends and most mortals would ask the questions you pose here, but not most higher Fey.
The Fey Knight suspects we are not as we seem. If he suspects who we actually are then he passed the mother of all Sense Motive checks and we need to loot him ASAP.
Crake
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Agreed, competence is so refreshing.
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Vote closed.
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Yeah, if sheep can smell that we're a dragon, he can probably smell it too.
ryuan
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To be fair we just stacked more than +10 attack bonus on the girl, if she really got her buffs from a Fey she probably traded her first born son to them, and they would make sure she would get that son to trade for her, one way or another.
He's an ass, but his concern is not exactly unwarranted, if the exact words are "give me enough ability to win the contest". If she can't win the contest, they probably can't cash the favor she promised.
What does Buttercup think of the uncle motivations? Is he concerned for her, or is he angry a girl is one-upping him?
He's an ass, but his concern is not exactly unwarranted, if the exact words are "give me enough ability to win the contest". If she can't win the contest, they probably can't cash the favor she promised.
What does Buttercup think of the uncle motivations? Is he concerned for her, or is he angry a girl is one-upping him?
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Considering that he seems fine with coaxing her into a unspecified Fey bargain, I'd say he is an ass and a moron. His behavior is mostly that of a bully, not of someone with much concern for her.
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Odds are she stands to inherit more than he does and he's very bitter about it.
Crake
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Not concerned for her, but concerned for him making him look like a fool and by extension the rest of her House. It would be bad if she got caught up in a Fey pact, but he doesn't give two shits what happens to her, only if it reflects badly on him for being her protector.
ryuan
From Zero to Hero!
Eh, considering DP he will be just another evil knight, but technically speaking we're watching this from her perspective, and children are idiots.
Imagine that Buttercup is not Viserys, and then remember this is Planetos. Which is more likely, the girl finding some random benefactor or she suddenly became an unwitting devil cultist?
But yes, he does sound like a moron, but stupidity is a disease whose only cure is death.
Imagine that Buttercup is not Viserys, and then remember this is Planetos. Which is more likely, the girl finding some random benefactor or she suddenly became an unwitting devil cultist?
But yes, he does sound like a moron, but stupidity is a disease whose only cure is death.
Crake
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Though, forgive me if I'm wrong @DragonParadox, but if Wenyld did get goaded into taking on a Fey pact due to Alfryd bullying her, there's like... no chance her parents wouldn't blame him even if they would be angry at her--if they're good parents, possibly more scared for her. It was his responsibility--literally, oathbound responsibility--to make sure she was safe at this tourney. Not only failing to do that in the first instance, but doing something that might just as well ruin her entire life would make him literal scum not just to sympathetic onlookers but to his peers.
Though you illustrated this well enough I feel from Lord Owen's reaction, which was furious because that's exactly how he feels about this situation. This is just escalating the issue instead of privately having it out and punishing her for an indiscretion out of sight. He lost face by keeping his eyes off her in the immediate sense, so it was his responsibility to quietly bow out and then recover it by being responsible about how he dealt with it. Instead... we have this clownish behavior.
Sure Viserys guided things in this direction for his own base amusement, but man proposes and heaven disposes.
Though you illustrated this well enough I feel from Lord Owen's reaction, which was furious because that's exactly how he feels about this situation. This is just escalating the issue instead of privately having it out and punishing her for an indiscretion out of sight. He lost face by keeping his eyes off her in the immediate sense, so it was his responsibility to quietly bow out and then recover it by being responsible about how he dealt with it. Instead... we have this clownish behavior.
Sure Viserys guided things in this direction for his own base amusement, but man proposes and heaven disposes.
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Stop overthinking. Troll them all and let Yss sort it out.
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To be fair, we only wanted to take him down a peg for being an asshole to Buttercup and his niece.Sure Viserys guided things in this direction for his own base amusement, but man proposes and heaven disposes.
We are not the ones who started betting open ended favors to the Fey. I for one am perfectly content with him having to cash in that check his loud mouth just wrote.
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Part MMMCDXVI: Arrows of Fortune
Arrows of Fortune
Twenty Fourth Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC
It speaks well to Lord Ashford's character that he is angry now, whether the fool currently trying to humiliate a young girl had once been his friend or no. You make a mental note of the matter but do not linger upon it for there is work yet to be done by Buttercup the Bard. "My lady fair, I'm afraid the joyous occasion has already been marred by most vile accusations from a man who clearly fears your prowess," you interject cheerfully, ignoring the shocked looks of Lord Ashford's other mortal guests and the measuring glances of the fey.
Before the girl can reply, if indeed that is what she intends to do, you turn to the crowd with a broad smile. "What say you, good people? Shall this fine young woman be forced to forfeit just because her uncle is afraid of her? Shall she have to endure such slander of her honor and virtue?"
The onlookers, which had moments before been at least willing to entertain the notion that Ser Alfryd had some just reason in speaking out, particularly when faced with past accounts of young Wenyld's 'transgressions', turn on him in a heartbeat. It would, after all, be just as entertaining to see him humiliated and that you have every intention of delivering.
"Bloody hells and damantion, it's an archery competition not even the joust," you hear Ser Cerin Leygood mutter with a shake of the head. "Just let them get on with it."
"An excellent idea," you nod cheerfully. "Even if it is a less grand competition than the joust would it not make a better ending to the tale to see the bout through?"
The fey all seem agreeable also, though how much of that is your argument and how much is wariness over guessing you are more than you appear you could not say. Turning then to the lord you add: "I for one look forward to singing about it, so what say you, my lord?"
"About the song? Well I could hardly stop you." The jest is spoken more for form's sake, a reflex of sorts. "I believe it is common knowledge to all here that those of the faerie cannot speak untruths." The words are met with enough nods and calls of ascent for him to continue. "My Lords, my ladies, do any of you see magic upon with your eyes sharp enough to witness secrets beyond the light of common day?"
One by one they answer no, though careful in their wording. "We see no magic," say the fey, not 'we suspect no magic'.
That is more than enough for Lord Ashford who is not particularly inclined to indulge the Fossoway knight. "The good bard makes a fair point, however impertinent the telling. Ser Knight, my lady, you may continue at your leisure."
Alfryd Fossoway shoots first, biting back whatever else he might have been inclined to tell his niece. To his credit he is a fair archer, managing to put two arrows in the innermost circle and one strike to the bullseye.
Guided by sorcery and the whisper of dragon dreams Wenyld is far more than fair, putting two arrows into the bullseye so close you do not think a third would fit and then solving the conundrum by splitting one of those arrows in half with her third. The crowd cheers wildly, though after that display you doubt many accept that there was no sorcery involved. In the end however everyone loves a winner and that is what the girl proves to be. She goes on to sweep right past her three remaining opponents, including a Marcher archer you recall from your own tourney, to claim the prize, a respectable though not extravagant seven hundred golden dragons. Flush with success she does not even give her uncle a second look, seeming to enrage the man all the more.
The song you are about to sing is unlikely to make him any less angry, that is certain.
What do you do next?
[] Speak to one of the notables
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[] Wait for the inevitable confrontation and then on to the melee
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OOC: I liked the spellbane plan, but given Lord Ashford's state of mind it was not very likely to happen. He views cheating at archery to be downright insignificant besides publicly humiliating a lady under one's protection and trying to get her entangled in a fey bargain.
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