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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
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
Sharing as @Goldfish suggested.
At the moment, there's a lack of information on some places since DP hasn't really gotten around to giving us the low-down about them. They're overall not really important enough to spend time worrying about though. There's maybe a handful of Houses we might want to bother with, but barring maybe one or two unexpected complications occurring if we don't do anything after this month, it probably won't make much of a difference.
Under ordinary circumstances, having the support of half the continent would make conquest a bit of a crap shoot, but the other half are basically running around screaming like headless chickens or literally could not give less of a shit.
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
- Location
- Indonesia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Devide et impera. Let's Napoleon Bonaparte'd their sorry flaming asses.
[X] Duesal
I am curious about the Three Sisters, mostly because I suspect the Deep Ones might be up to something there.
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
- Location
- Indonesia
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- He/Him
What, Myr, Lys and Tyrosh? I mean, they have coastal regions but they're heavily guarded by our troops and assets. It's Braavos who I worried most. They're prime Illithid strike material.
The islands. Longsister, Sweetsister, and the other one. The Sistermen are supposed to have webbed hands and feet and like to wreck ships...
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
- Location
- Indonesia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Ah! The Vale! Sorry I always got them mixed up together. Especially so considering their close proximity with the sea.
Still, they're of Westeros soil. So the probability of the squids trying to grief their way there is not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
Starting to write.
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
- Location
- Indonesia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Aww, how cute. Our GM is alerting us ahead of time.
- Location
- Classified
God damn it, I was writing my term paper all month and I missed the forge vote. I'll never get the Verdant Phoenix done at this rate.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Sorry, dude. I didn't think about it when the order was being discussed. Don't let us forget next month.
- Location
- Australia
Bronn talking shit about magic while subtly making use of it against a planar sorcerer, it's going to be hilarious when he gets back home and his strange duality bounces off of the inured SD citizens and unbending Westerosi alike.
- Location
- Australia
Big fan of this post @egoo, well done.
I wanted to see what was going on with the Vinespawn, apparently still chilling with The Lads and roaming around the canals of Braavos.
I wonder how they're performing, the canals seem well protected so those ones might be a little bored if anything but the Lads should have plenty of kidnap/retrieval targets for various reasons.
The rivers are highways.
When do we assign free forces? If it's something we can do now it'd be good to give 10 to the Inquisition for non-lethal ambush and kidnapping.
A dozen to Gogossos spread evenly amongst the waters, facility and the forests should make our researchers happy as anything they oppose will also end up on the table in mint condition.
The trees are highways too.
- Location
- Australia
Y'all had the chance to pretend to be one of these guys and you're blowing it.
Can you imagine doing Bettany's hype up for Richard?
A man of taste.
It's all I could picture and I cannot believe that I'm about to read a series of updates in which Viserys does not threaten to Fong people so hard that their insides are out, their outsides are in and their entrails become their extrails.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
This is actually pretty typical hypocrisy in Westeros. Even the mainstay of the anti-magic/more conservative Westerosi lords have pretty much no problems with using magic swords and healing belts and the other things that make all the unpleasant realities involved in war go away (swords that dull, break or get caught in armor, bruises and broken bones from training too hard or often, rations that go bad or taste awful if not for Prestidigitation, unpleasantly cold nights inside of a tent, etc.) that Bronn wouldn't be in unusual company.
Bronn obstinately refuses to learn the names of the stuff he kills even though he could circumstantially look over the manuals we've written on this very matter (in True Speech! Literacy not required!) and sort of ape knowledge on the matter. Rather, one might say he uses ignorance as a shield. Furthermore, he works alongside sorcerers all of the time, but is probably as likely to wish magic hadn't made 90% of everything else they used to concern themselves with vastly more complicated.
It's basically a combination of bone-deep practicality and traditional griping, though in Bronn's case it is less driven by feeling their rights and comfort in tradition is threatened, and more that "stabbing the other guy for money" is nowadays never so simple. For example, he walked into this relationship thinking "when the war's over that's it, I'll retire to my nice big castle and my highborn wife and make my kids fight for their inheritance". And now he knows the world is facing an apocalypse every other week and he'll probably always at least tangentially be under threat by some uncanny source of weirdness.
- Location
- Australia
Most of the Westerosi don't have his relationship with magical items, his particular brand of Magical Luddite, where he can talk with expertise about obscure magical items and effects like he would a trebuchet not because he has any particular understanding of the math involved but because he's used them a time or two.
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Part MMMDXXVIII: Treacherous Tales
Treacherous Tales
Twenty Second Day of the First Month 294 AC
"You say the Court of Stars brings change even as I propose it, but as with many workings of the fey, for good or for ill, that change is an illusion and behind it is stasis that would bind away from them the best ability of mortal minds, their creativity," you reply, the conviction in your words unfeigned. "You say you trust the Star Crowned Queen, I ask how far?"
"As far as I would any trusted ally, and should it come to it even as far as a bannerman might trust his liege," the lord replies, bristling slightly. He is expecting some dismissal perhaps, being called a fool for admitting he would pledge his House to strange spirits.
You do none of those things: "What she asks of you my lord is more even than that, to be bound by the narrative of the Court of Stars is a compulsion of the mind and spirit however subtle. I would never ask that of my bannermen, not even of my most trusted vassals." Reading the darkening of his expression you add: "I do not mean to say that she is necessarily malicious, but that the fey of the Bright Court, accustomed as they are to the weight of tales upon their very beings, would mistake what mortals could count a burden beyond bearing." Easier to persuade a man that his allies are mistaken than malicious, for all you would prefer a cleaner break.
"Even if this fey queen means no harm you're still in her debt and her debts bind you to her dance," Danar continues before Lord Leygood can get a word in. "They can't help it, no more than sunlight can help burning you if you stay out in it too long. If you ask me..."
"People rarely do, but he tells them anyway," Alyssa puts in with such perfect timing you suspect the comment is anything but spontaneous. They have been doing this for a while too.
Danar gives a sigh and a shake of his head in his wife's direction, drawing a giggle from the mind dragon currently perched on her shoulder before continuing. "I would rather the fey live more by mortal laws as they do in Sorcerer's Deep than having men live by fey laws as the Star-Crowned would have it."
For the first time Lord Leygood looks more troubled than angry at what he is hearing. "It would be an ill thing to assume about an ally that they would enslave us knowing or unknowing. I have not seen any proof of such with mine own eyes."
"No decision you make will ever be wholly your own, Lord Leygood, while this bargain endures," you press. "Nor those of your bannermen, your heirs, or the smallfolk who live in your lands. You will merely play the part most fitting for the story the Court and its Queen wish to be told."
"Recall also," the little mind dragon hisses from his perch on Alyssa's shoulder, her voice deeper than the diminutive frame should allow. "Stories need villains as much as heroes. What happens if in the thrall of this grand and courtly tale there is no outside villain to fight?"
There is a soft thump as the Lord of Horse Hill drops his hand on the desk before him, a grim look in his eyes. "I cannot forswear myself by stealth after being aided without any ill intent that I know of. It would be a stain upon my honor and..." he pauses, uncertain perhaps on how frank he can afford to be. "A fey curse upon my line. You bring ill tidings Your Grace, but I am not one to blame the messenger for it."
"So what shall you do then my lord, with all that you have heard today?" you ask, plainly and without artifice.
"I shall speak to the fey envoy and ask to be released from the mutual oaths of protection made for my lands, negotiate a price to pay for it agreed by both," he replies.
"And if the envoy of the Court of Stars is resistant and turn upon your House if you insist?" Alyssa asks softly. "I know you do not wish to hear that they might be your foes, but the chance exists."
"Then I can do naught but cast myself upon His Grace's mercy. There is no aid coming from Highgarden and less from King's Landing," he replies sounding pained.
What do you do?
[] Accompany Lord Leygood to speak to the fey envoy in his fief
[] Let him go alone
[] Ask that he hold off speaking with the fey one way or another for now, until you have some results form Lya's studies into the ritual
[] Write in
OOC: Sorry this took so long guys, got distracted by another quest for a bit. Still, I feel this update came off stronger than it would have if I had written it last night.
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Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
- Location
- Indonesia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
*grins*
I mean, it is a good quest. But don't go asking us to forge some mystical metal inlaid with mastercrafted runes, or incorporating some Azer smiths, or kill some titanic lightning-clad herald of chaos-wannabe.
At least, not on a drop of a hat.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
[X] Ask that he hold off speaking with the fey one way or another for now, until you have some results from Lya's studies into the ritual.
-[X] Assure him he will have your aid, however things work out. If he doesn't have one or more of these already, provide him with a PfE ring, Sending Stone, and Teleport Charm and explain their use.
-[X] Assure him he will have your aid, however things work out. If he doesn't have one or more of these already, provide him with a PfE ring, Sending Stone, and Teleport Charm and explain their use.
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egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
The list isn't an all-in monthly checklist, like turnplans.
I just keep track of shit with it, relatively on-date with the quest's updates.
If ya want to reassign someone/thing somewhere, just vote through for that, I guess.
I dont think the Inquisition needs more operative forces, but that's, like, just my opinion.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
Whatever else he may be, Leygood is a main who honors his convictions and his duty. He and Stannis would probably get along well.
- Location
- Australia
Could also assign to Bloodraven, he only has half a dozen Leshy.
Vinespawn can take friend or foe halfway across Westeros in a night non-magically and easily avoid detection while doing so.