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

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Massgamer said:
if it was for IC reasoning there shouldn't have been a vote in the first place
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I agree, this is one of those chapters where the players shouldn't really have been given a choice.
We're not playing them, we're playing Viserys.
It is understandable, however, that a chapter-break vote was needed for DP to write comfortably.

But unlike, say, op-sec orders given to the group managing Slavers' Bay on the go, or actual combat plans (can't have DP run everything himself), this is really a decision that is entirely within Xor's personal purview.

So we (and by we I mostly mean myself and Duesal who agreed with the statement of mine) defaulted to what our understanding of Xor is.
He's not an extra-looty person.
 
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The thing here is, a vote was given because even if it isn't something that Mercy nor Xor would be comfortable doing, they are loyal enough and know that Viserys would probably like unique spectral allies who aren't composed of negative energy. That's rather novel.

It was a character decision which raised an important distinction for both Mercy and Xor's motivations. That they did what was IC shows that they will probably do so again if given the choice and limited time to make a decision.

So their rationale in the future could have changed with this vote. Now it likely won't.
 
I prefer talking things out. I just like destroying people who are the most egregious in their transgressions. Even then, if there's an alternative that wouldn't be hard to enact, I usually go for it if it aligns with our goals and motivations.

Hence me not pushing harder for the destruction of House Tyrell, even though I really want to.
 
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Interlude DCCCIV: A Tomb and a Toast
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    • A Tomb and a Toast ​

    Fourteenth Day of the First Month 294 AC

    Ghoyan Drohe, New City

    As the last of the water mages faded into the waters of the Little Rhoyne with scarce a ripple the onlookers who happened to be close enough to witness the scene and those who had rushed for the river at the sight of strange lights all burst into cheers. There was a bit of confusion that the dragon had not played any part in the battle when everyone had assumed that had been why it was there as opposed to Valaena not wanting to leave the big lizard behind, but all in all a job well done, Shara concluded. She didn't mind her own efforts being small and easily overlooked. The less folk had cause to wonder about an inquisitor even once under a glamour the better.

    Oddly enough the naga agreed with the sentiment, which being as it was a giant golden snake with a man's head and rather hard to miss was pretty damn funny, not that she had any intention of sharing the mirth with the solemn servant of Yss. The two of them spent the rest of the day exploring the tombs to make sure the other specters wouldn't be coming back as well as to claim whatever might be left in there for the empire in case it was worth studying.

    Unfortunately they didn't find any grimoires or other writings of note, or even any enchantments wrought in the manner of the old Rhoynar, but they did come upon urns of porcelain from far off Yi Ti, jewelry in silver and black iron of a sort none made these days. None of it was going to make the treasury any richer most likely, but they would make decent exhibits back in Sorcerer's Deep

    Gained Rare Rhoynar Grave Goods

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    "Are they all gone?" The voice was hesitant, which was a strange thing to hear inside one's head.

    Shara turned to meet Wisdom Xor's many eyed gaze across the now quiet common room of the tavern. Celebrations could only go for so long before folk remembered they had no shortage of work on the morrow. "Like water into the sea, no trace of a haunt. Didn't even feel a chill down there."

    "There is no reason why you would have. These spirits were woven of the memory of life, not death,"     he replied. That sounded like something that would interest the Scholarum, but then again they would have had to get the ghost all the way there and it hadn't seemed all that stable. Not her place to argue with a Companion and a senior Scholarum mage besides.

    "Good... good, I was worried that my involvement might have driven them to return in rage." His eye-stalks dropped a little. "I can't help but wonder if it hadn't been me trying to talk to them..."

    "Then Valaena would have doused them in dragon-fire probably,"     Shara interrupted firmly before raising her glass in a toast. "Here's to the dead having peace and the living good fortune."

    A wine-glass levitated off the nearby table, quickly filling then motioning to match her toast. The tooth-filled smile was still a touch shaky but it was sincere. "I can drink to that."

    What next?

    [] Receive a report
    -[] Yi Ti financial results
    -[] Ghiscari Investigation
    -[] Reach fey-pact research
    -[] Write in

    [] Continue with Viserys
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: Low roll for the tomb unfortunately, but all told a successful deployment.
     
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    A Tomb and a Toast ​

    Fourteenth Day of the First Month 294 AC

    Ghoyan Drohe, New City

    As the last of the water mages faded into the waters of the Little Rhyone with scarce a ripple, the onlookers who happened to be close enough to witness the scene and those who had rushed for the river at the sight of strange lights all burst into cheers. There was a bit of confusion that the dragon had not played any part in the battle when everyone had assumed that had been why it was there as opposed to Valaena not wanting to leave the big lizard behind, but all in all a job well done, Shara concluded. She didn't mind her own efforts being small and easily overlooked. The less folk had cause to wonder about an inquisitor, even one under a glamor, the better.

    Oddly enough, the naga agreed with the sentiment, which being as it was a giant golden snake with a man's head and rather hard to miss was pretty damn funny, not that she had any intention of sharing the mirth with the solemn servant of Yss. The two of them spent the rest of the day exploring the tombs to make sure the other specters wouldn't be coming back as well as to claim whatever might be left there for the empire in case it was worth studying.

    Unfortunately, they didn't find any grimoires or other writing of note, or even any enchantments wrought in the manner of the old Rhoynar, but they did come upon urns of porcelain from far off Yi Ti, jewelry in silver and black iron of a sort no one made these days. None of it was going to make the treasury any richer, most likely, but they would make decent exhibits back in Sorcerer's Deep.

    Gained Rare Rhoynar Grave Goods

    ***​

    "Are they all gone?" The voice was hesitant, which was a strange thing to hear inside one's head.

    Shara turned to meet Wisdom Xor's many eyed gaze across the now quiet common room of the tavern. Celebrations could only go for so long before folk remembered they had no shortage of work on the morrow. "Like water into the sea, no trace of a haunt. Didn't even feel a chill down there."

    "There is no reason why you would have. These spirits were woven of the memory of life, not death,"     he replied. That sounded like something that would interest the Scholarum, but then again they would have had to get the ghost all the way there and it hadn't seemed all that stable. Not her place to argue with a Companion and a senior Scholarum mage besides.

    "Good... good, I was worried that my involvement might have driven them to return in a rage." His eye-stalks drooped a little. "I can't help but wonder if it hadn't been me trying to talk to them..."

    "Then Valaena would have doused them in dragon-fire probably,"     Shara interrupted firmly before raising her glass in a toast. "Here's to the dead having peace and the living good fortune."

    A wine-glass levitated off the nearby table, quickly filling then moving to match her toast. The tooth-filled smile was still a touch shaky but it was sincere. "I can drink to that."

    What next?

    [] Receive a report
    -[] Yi Ti financial results
    -[] Ghiscari Investigation
    -[] Reach fey-pact research
    -[] Write in

    [] Continue with Viserys
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: Low roll for the tomb unfortunately, but all told a successful deployment. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.

    /hug Xor
     
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    Still annoyed we got nothing out of this when we could have gotten positive energy ghosts to study since it would have really helped soul and possibly necromancy research. Here's hoping we can figure it out another way later.
     
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    Adhoc vote count started by egoo on May 26, 2020 at 6:14 PM, finished with 15 posts and 10 votes.
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    [X] Receive a report
    -[X] The socio-economic development in response to the Imperium spanning network of highways, in particular how it affects pre-existing trade- and settlement-patterns, and the local identity of ethno-cultural groups.
     
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