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For me it's less killing them to protect this new alliance specifically and more that eventually we're just going to have to kill them. I don't see a world where Danelle and Brandon join the Imperium with no fuss.
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Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
I was under the assumption we were playing nice with the Chosen because we've got bigger annoyances to deal with at the moment.
Not so much as not killing them but because them alive and dealing with Westerosi issues means we can more effectively deal with other things.
They're annoying as all hell of course, but they're less annoying as the countless devil and demon cults, fishmen and squidface uprisings, or Cousinfuckers from beyond the wall incursions.
They aren't doing much, but they are a deterrent. A pretty shitty deterrent but 1 is bigger than zero and all that.
When we come for the crown (in what is increasingly looking like a calm meandering stroll during a Sunday afternoon in terms of difficulty) that may change, but I don't see us doing that just yet.
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I'm not a fan of them, but neither has done anything to deserve death at this point, and like DP said, trying to arrange that at this point would be problematic. Either they'll get with the program, or give us a legitimate reason to do away with them.
Wait, telling Lord Chester to be careful of Danelle and Brandon would break the truce? I thought the terms were just to stop hunting them down. Is political maneuvering against the chosen not ok?
Or are you referring to Azel's mention of wanting to cause an accident?
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The accident. Not the plan itself.
That argument is a bit hard to sell. Keep in mind these are people who have worked to protect Westeros from all manner of evils and are not as of right now actively hostile. 'Welp I'm going to have to kill them anyway so I might as well get it over with' would be quite hard to swallow in those circumstances especially for someone like Waymar and to a somwhat lesser extent Lya and Dany.
Killing them, telling the lord to be wary is fine.
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Will it be easier to sell when they inevitably decide they need to kill us and attack?
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They do realize that with the oath we have given we are probably going to have to kill them right?
Edit: This truce benefits them more than it does us.
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Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
I mean that's how I play Skyrim, so I can relate to the struggle.Viserys: be deterred from killing heroic defenders of the people not because that's bad, but because Companions will be sad.
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Okay, so a quick question for the thread. Who here actually thinks that we have a shot at recruiting Danielle?
Goldfish
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Trying @Azel's scheme with Chester is just asking for Brandon and Danelle to discover what we did, y'all. Without a Mind Blank, they'll easily be able to learn what we say to him, and giving him a Mind Blank should be out of the question, as then we lose the ability to monitor him ourselves.
Goldfish
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We interact rarely, though, and it won't be long before she will have to decide to either join our cause or make a true enemy of us. Until that time, it's not worth the satisfaction of antagonizing her, or indirectly needling her.
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And for what purpose do you want to play nice with them? Danelle puts on the frowny face at everything we do, then immediately backpedals before actual conflict occurs.
We can do whatever in front of her. She will not care for more then 5 minutes.
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I'm hoping she eventually just strikes the first blow so we can get this over with.
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You would not care for more than 5 minutes when on minute six Viserys begins debating the utility of turning you into a briquette or not from five feet away.
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Not to mention there should have been some reaction to her seeing Rina wielding Baelor the Blessed's mace like the blood soaked trophy that it is.
The reaction went form 'concerned' to 'thoughtful'. I did not mean for it to be a 180 so it's on me that it came off like that. I'll try to show more nuance in the future, but she just does not get a lot of screen time.
That is utterly unrecognizable, it looks like a weirwood mace.
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What part?
The reaction to us using undead was Brandon, not her.
I think her only direct question about the Mold was if they were tools for us, which we satisfactory answered.
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She was horrified at first. That just kinda went under in about a paragraph.
*sigh*
Sometimes I just wish I had not introduced the Chosen at all. They just feel like they don't have room to breathe in terms of narrative with all the other plot threads around.
Sometimes I just wish I had not introduced the Chosen at all. They just feel like they don't have room to breathe in terms of narrative with all the other plot threads around.