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

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Fair enough. How about the forest eyes thing though? If we port over to the other forge and use that as our designated connection point do you think it's reasonable to get full coverage of the infested one? That particular spell doesn't seem to be written with this situation in mind, but it also doesn't specify a maximum size or that you can't view stuff like the areas around the roots of the target plant.
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I really don't think it would fit here. It's also another spell that would require high level resources to duplicate.

I have several members of the group casting Healer's Vision because it might allow them to better perceive their surroundings, discerning what parts of the Forge are normal and which are infested, along with hedging out hidden Aberrations.
 
Points of interest until the month's end:

[Viserys]
- Checking in with Ferryman for Water Elemental-forging lore.
- Another vote for summoning, since we apparently need those. See here.

[Delegated stuff (who does it though? No idea)]
- Talking to Wild Hunt, asking their services against the CoS in any manner they can provide, be it info or action.
-- We have the potential to coexist perfectly well with each other, and we can offer them more grand enemies to hunt/fight than... anyone, really.

- Grabbing non-court-aligned Fey insofar as we can while around Reach and Westeros.

[Reports]
- Inquisition and The Rogue Faceless - we are still on the semi-active lookout for those that left the Empire's borders.
- Moonsong's first foray into spehhs in a metal bawks.
- that one Moonchaser-class searching for Targ isles?
- How the Lejnths summoned in the 12th month took to serving us in Gogossos -- shall we summon more if so?

[Random chance-based (may not happen)]
- Chosen of Stranger making a new dead drop of materials for Chosen of Smith and us rushing to it.
- Meraxes succeeding in her Imperial Steel RA.
 
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Don't forget to vote, y'all.
Adhoc vote count started by Goldfish on Jun 19, 2020 at 9:57 PM, finished with 23 posts and 10 votes.
  • [X] Exterminatus
    -[X] Viserys uses Wild Arcana to cast Shapechange on himself, initially taking the form of a Pseudodragon for now. He Blood Wishes a Greater Reduce Person spell on Lya and Vee, and Dany assumes her preferred Mercury Dragon Wyrmling form. Neither Lya nor Vee are accustomed to using alternative forms, so this will allow them to remain in a familiar form while having full access to their equipment. Vee, Lya, and Dany all activate their Beads of Karma to increase their caster levels by +4 before buffing up.
    --[X] Viserys casts Nine Lives on Dany, Vee, Lya, and Varys, Freedom of Movement on Varys, Magic Vestment on Lya. He casts Shield, Mirror Image, Scintillating Scales, Starmantle, Greater Arcane Sight, Grand Destiny (using Greater Shadow Enchantment), Healer's Vision, Ironskin, See Invisibility, Magic Vestment, and Venomfire on himself. He uses Greater Blink on himself and Searing Agonizing Mass Fire Shield on everyone just before the group descends into the potentially infected area. He activated his Orb of Mental Renewal to heal any Charisma damage caused by Blood Wish.
    --[X] Varys activates all of her equipment buffs.
    --[X] Vee casts Mass Aid, Mass Resist Energy (Acid, Fire, and Electricity), Barkskin, and Tyche's Touch on everyone, Fly on Dany, and Greater Magic Fang on Varys. She casts Fly, Sign, True Seeing, Divine Insight, Entropic Shield, Healer's Vision, Freedom of Movement, Shield of Faith, and Shield of Warding on herself.
    ---[X] She casts Summon Nature's Ally VI three times, with each spell Summoning 1d4+2 Jannis. They will shrink themselves using their Reduce Person SLAs, become Ethereal and Invisible, then act as scouts while remaining in Telepathic contact with one another and our group.
    --[X] Lya casts Bless, Blessed Aim, Life Bubble, Mass Energy Resistance (Sonic and Cold) and Moment of Greatness on everyone, True Seeing on Viserys, and Fly on Viserys and Varys. She casts Fly, Freedom of Movement (expending Greater Invisibility to do it), Battlemagic Perception, Heightened Awareness, Shield, Mirror Image, True Seeing, See Invisibility, Shield of Faith, Starmantle, and Divine Insight on herself. She uses Greater Blink on herself just before the group descends into the potentially infected area.
    --[X] Dany casts Fickle Winds on everyone, and Greater Magic Fang on Viserys. She uses Stormrage, Shield of Faith, Shield of Warding, Entropic Shield, Ironskin, Healer's Vision, Sign, Divine Insight, Battlemagic Perception, Freedom of Movement, and True Seeing on herself.
    ---[X] While boosted by one of Lya's Harmonic Chorus spells (augmented by canceling a Moment of Greatness by Viserys), Dany casts a Reached Chained Mind Blank on the group at 23rd caster level (27th for the purpose of resisting Dispels). She then casts a Reached Chained Greater Spell Immunity spell (augmented by another Moment of Greatness spell cast by Viserys) using Inspired Spell (25th caster level, 29th to resist Dispelling) to render the group completely Immune to the following spells: Magical Backlash, Maze, Shivering Touch, Dimensional Anchor, and Avasculate.
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@Goldfish it might be worth the time to Replay Tracks around the pods to see what they were up to, and to go over the whole facility afterwards to get a record of every action they took while loose in the forge. It'd really suck to learn we were on a timer to stop something stupidly nasty from gestating and used half of it stomping on minions.
 
BronzeTongue said:
@Goldfish it might be worth the time to Replay Tracks around the pods to see what they were up to, and to go over the whole facility afterwards to get a record of every action they took while loose in the forge. It'd really suck to learn we were on a timer to stop something stupidly nasty from gestating and used half of it stomping on minions.
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Another neat spell I wasn't aware of until now.

That's definitely one to consider using as part of our investigation, but the time required is kind of prohibitive right now. That one lets you review the past, but only at regular speed. If we wanted to look back 20 hours, it would take 20 hours to do it.

I am going to add some quick Divinations to my plan, though.
 
Goldfish said:
Another neat spell I wasn't aware of until now.

That's definitely one to consider using as part of our investigation, but the time required is kind of prohibitive right now. That one lets you review the past, but only at regular speed. If we wanted to look back 20 hours, it would take 20 hours to do it.

I am going to add some quick Divinations to my plan, though.
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I interpreted it as running while you followed the tracks. If we have it up while we follow them then we'll have some idea of what they were doing while they were there, and it wouldn't take more time than we already used to follow them.
 
[X] Goldfish

I wonder if we can capture this thing and get something out of it. Also hope whatever corrupted parts of Forge can be purged relatively easily.
 
Anyone have any better ideas for Dany's Greater Spell Immunity? Right now she has Magical Backlash, Maze, Shivering Touch, Dimensional Anchor, and Avasculate selected.
Adhoc vote count started by Goldfish on Jun 20, 2020 at 8:37 AM, finished with 35 posts and 17 votes.
  • [X] Exterminatus
    -[X] Viserys uses Wild Arcana to cast Shapechange on himself, initially taking the form of a Pseudodragon for now. He Blood Wishes a Greater Reduce Person spell on Lya and Vee, and Dany assumes her preferred Mercury Dragon Wyrmling form. Neither Lya nor Vee are accustomed to using alternative forms, so this will allow them to remain in a familiar form while having full access to their equipment. Vee, Lya, and Dany all activate their Beads of Karma to increase their caster levels by +4 before buffing up.
    --[X] Viserys casts Nine Lives on Dany, Vee, Lya, and Varys, Freedom of Movement on Varys, Magic Vestment on Lya. He casts Shield, Mirror Image, Scintillating Scales, Starmantle, Greater Arcane Sight, Grand Destiny (using Greater Shadow Enchantment), Healer's Vision, Ironskin, See Invisibility, Magic Vestment, and Maximized Venomfire (using a Maximize Metamagic Rod) on himself. He uses Greater Blink on himself and Searing Agonizing Mass Fire Shield on everyone just before the group descends into the potentially infected area.
    ---[X] If there are suitable tracks to use with the spell, Viserys will Blood Wish a Replay Tracks spell in an attempt to guide the group through the capillaries leading to the infestation. He will maintain the spell using the Swift Concentration skill trick until combat is imminent.
    ---[X] Before descending into the infected capillaries, Viserys uses his Orb of Mental Renewal to heal any Charisma damage caused by Blood Wish.
    --[X] Varys activates all of her equipment buffs, in addition to sharing the various spell effects Viserys cast on himself.
    --[X] Vee casts Mass Aid, Mass Resist Energy (Acid, Fire, and Electricity), Barkskin, and Tyche's Touch on everyone, Fly on Dany, and Greater Magic Fang on Varys. She casts Fly, Sign, True Seeing, Divine Insight, Entropic Shield, Healer's Vision, Freedom of Movement, Shield of Faith, and Shield of Warding on herself.
    ---[X] She uses her Dragonbone Divination Sticks and Hallucinogenic Smoke spell augmented Augury spell to determine whether our actions will bring good or bad results (95% accuracy, will know if the "Nothing" result really means nothing or indicate failure).
    ---[X] Before the group descends into the capillaries of the Forge, she casts Summon Nature's Ally VI three times, with each spell Summoning 1d4+2 Jannis. They will shrink themselves using their Reduce Person SLAs, become Ethereal and Invisible, then act as scouts while remaining in Telepathic contact with one another and our group.
    --[X] Lya casts Bless, Blessed Aim, Life Bubble, Mass Energy Resistance (Sonic and Cold) and Moment of Greatness on everyone, True Seeing on Viserys, and Fly on Viserys and Varys. She casts Fly, Freedom of Movement (expending Greater Invisibility to do it), Battlemagic Perception, Heightened Awareness, Shield, Mirror Image, True Seeing, See Invisibility, Shield of Faith, Starmantle, and Divine Insight on herself. She uses Greater Blink on herself just before the group descends into the potentially infected area.
    --[X] Dany casts Fickle Winds on everyone, and Greater Magic Fang on Viserys. She uses Stormrage, Shield of Faith, Shield of Warding, Entropic Shield, Ironskin, Healer's Vision, Sign, Divine Insight, Battlemagic Perception, Freedom of Movement, and True Seeing on herself.
    ---[X] She uses her Dragonbone Divination Sticks and Inspired Spell to cast a Divination spell as a Standard Action (95% accuracy) to learn what she can of the infestation.
    ---[X] While boosted by one of Lya's Harmonic Chorus spells (augmented by canceling a Moment of Greatness by Viserys), Dany casts a Reached Chained Mind Blank on the group at 23rd caster level (27th for the purpose of resisting Dispels). She then casts a Reached Chained Greater Spell Immunity spell (augmented by another Moment of Greatness spell cast by Viserys) using Inspired Spell (25th caster level, 29th to resist Dispelling) to render the group completely Immune to the following spells: Magical Backlash, Maze, Shivering Touch, Dimensional Anchor, and Avasculate.
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Aight, imma sleep through the rest of the day naow.

Notes for y'all while I'm not:
-[] Please keep in mind that the safety of the rest of the forge comes first, burn and break anything affected.
Letting Far Realm claim anything, in any manner, is a fuckfest in the making.

Even if we harm the output in the forge for the next month(s) as the result, this situation is too prone to spontaneously birthing an Elder God on PoB if we arent careful.
...I'm okay doing things like that on purpose, but not b/c of the rng.

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-[] If Urak's too deeply affected we have to sacrifice/mercy-kill him.
Simple as that, really.

Losing knowledge and researcher is bad and sad and all, but letting someone potentially compromised work on such sensitive things as... Imperial Deity, or Heart Tree immunities, or the next Praetorians?
Madness madder than the Far Realm.

If he is salvageable, 1-2 months he's gonna spend not doing jack shit as we do our best to check for any triggers.
Maybe even handing him over to Gith wholesale and paying them a lot to deal with this for us.
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-[] Saenena's not getting any tasks next month either.
We'll be low on researchers, but what can do, we fucked up in our planning, we deserve this.
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Adhoc vote count started by Goldfish on Jun 20, 2020 at 8:37 AM, finished with 35 posts and 17 votes.
  • [X] Exterminatus
    -[X] Viserys uses Wild Arcana to cast Shapechange on himself, initially taking the form of a Pseudodragon for now. He Blood Wishes a Greater Reduce Person spell on Lya and Vee, and Dany assumes her preferred Mercury Dragon Wyrmling form. Neither Lya nor Vee are accustomed to using alternative forms, so this will allow them to remain in a familiar form while having full access to their equipment. Vee, Lya, and Dany all activate their Beads of Karma to increase their caster levels by +4 before buffing up.
    --[X] Viserys casts Nine Lives on Dany, Vee, Lya, and Varys, Freedom of Movement on Varys, Magic Vestment on Lya. He casts Shield, Mirror Image, Scintillating Scales, Starmantle, Greater Arcane Sight, Grand Destiny (using Greater Shadow Enchantment), Healer's Vision, Ironskin, See Invisibility, Magic Vestment, and Maximized Venomfire (using a Maximize Metamagic Rod) on himself. He uses Greater Blink on himself and Searing Agonizing Mass Fire Shield on everyone just before the group descends into the potentially infected area.
    ---[X] If there are suitable tracks to use with the spell, Viserys will Blood Wish a Replay Tracks spell in an attempt to guide the group through the capillaries leading to the infestation. He will maintain the spell using the Swift Concentration skill trick until combat is imminent.
    ---[X] Before descending into the infected capillaries, Viserys uses his Orb of Mental Renewal to heal any Charisma damage caused by Blood Wish.
    --[X] Varys activates all of her equipment buffs, in addition to sharing the various spell effects Viserys cast on himself.
    --[X] Vee casts Mass Aid, Mass Resist Energy (Acid, Fire, and Electricity), Barkskin, and Tyche's Touch on everyone, Fly on Dany, and Greater Magic Fang on Varys. She casts Fly, Sign, True Seeing, Divine Insight, Entropic Shield, Healer's Vision, Freedom of Movement, Shield of Faith, and Shield of Warding on herself.
    ---[X] She uses her Dragonbone Divination Sticks and Hallucinogenic Smoke spell augmented Augury spell to determine whether our actions will bring good or bad results (95% accuracy, will know if the "Nothing" result really means nothing or indicate failure).
    ---[X] Before the group descends into the capillaries of the Forge, she casts Summon Nature's Ally VI three times, with each spell Summoning 1d4+2 Jannis. They will shrink themselves using their Reduce Person SLAs, become Ethereal and Invisible, then act as scouts while remaining in Telepathic contact with one another and our group.
    --[X] Lya casts Bless, Blessed Aim, Life Bubble, Mass Energy Resistance (Sonic and Cold) and Moment of Greatness on everyone, True Seeing on Viserys, and Fly on Viserys and Varys. She casts Fly, Freedom of Movement (expending Greater Invisibility to do it), Battlemagic Perception, Heightened Awareness, Shield, Mirror Image, True Seeing, See Invisibility, Shield of Faith, Starmantle, and Divine Insight on herself. She uses Greater Blink on herself just before the group descends into the potentially infected area.
    --[X] Dany casts Fickle Winds on everyone, and Greater Magic Fang on Viserys. She uses Stormrage, Shield of Faith, Shield of Warding, Entropic Shield, Ironskin, Healer's Vision, Sign, Divine Insight, Battlemagic Perception, Freedom of Movement, and True Seeing on herself.
    ---[X] She uses her Dragonbone Divination Sticks and Inspired Spell to cast a Divination spell as a Standard Action (95% accuracy) to learn what she can of the infestation.
    ---[X] While boosted by one of Lya's Harmonic Chorus spells (augmented by canceling a Moment of Greatness by Viserys), Dany casts a Reached Chained Mind Blank on the group at 23rd caster level (27th for the purpose of resisting Dispels). She then casts a Reached Chained Greater Spell Immunity spell (augmented by another Moment of Greatness spell cast by Viserys) using Inspired Spell (25th caster level, 29th to resist Dispelling) to render the group completely Immune to the following spells: Magical Backlash, Maze, Shivering Touch, Dimensional Anchor, and Avasculate.
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Interlude DCCCXXVIII: Webs in Darkness Spun
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    Twenty Seventh Day of the First Month 294 AC

    Capillaries of the Flesh Forge, Gogossos

    Being shrunk down to the size of a small child was oddly disconcerting to Lya in a way she could not quite put her finger on. She was still undoubtedly herself, but the way her body moved shifted, lower and closer to the ground. Pound for pound you are stronger now and its not just the magic, the part of her mind that was always weighing and studying the world noted. Not that she planned to get close enough to anything they might meet down there to actually punch it, but in the twisting corridors who knew what awaited them. The divinations said it would be a 'weal', she reminder herself.

    The sorceress shivered slightly as she followed Dany's silvery luminous presence up ahead and not with the cold for the deep earth was sweltering as the jungle above, but neither was it with fear at stepping into the capillaries. No, it was the thought of what had happened to Urak that sent a chill down her spine. To no longer have control of one's own mind, or minds as the case may be, seemed to her like a Hell more profound than anything that could be conceived of by infernal minds, and the fruit of that twisted labor was in here with them.

    Alright, so maybe I am a little afraid to descend into this particular pit, she admitted, mentally sticking out her tongue at the part of herself that had pointed out the fact. The fact that it was a part currently enjoying the the comforts of Sorcerer's Deep just made the whole thing more aggravating. There was so much more room to second guess yourself when you had two heads to do so.

    "Viserys, I think I found something," Dany's voice called out from up ahead, the sound of dragon wings redoubled and Viserys shrunk once more to match Varys, though by much stronger magic than in the old days, flying over to have a look.

    "What is it?" Lya called out.

    "Webs..." The word turned out to be an understatement. Past the latest turn the tunnel was a mass of sticky dripping web-work that almost seemed to drip off the walls but never seemed to get any thinner.

    The sight jarred loose a memory in the back of Lya's head, one she had with Xor during her brief doomed attempt to classify all the forms of Far Realm intelligence he knew of. "Leng spiders... little ones to fit in here, but watch out, they are intelligent and can weave madness and enchantment as easily as silk."

    "We should be doubly warded against it than," Dany said.

    "Watch your step anyway," Vee warned, taking on the voice of caution in Ser Richard's absence.

    For a while longer the five of them advanced in silence as Viserys burned the webbing aside with arcane flame. Whatever was waiting for them at the end of this must know they were coming, but they had silently decided not to try to speak. It would cost spells they might not afford to spend and more to the point, this was not some ruin they were exploring anymore, it was their Forge and the interlopers had best beware.

    "What the hells is that?" Viserys stopped abruptly. "There is sound coming through the stone, chanting by the rhythm of it. Lya, what's up ahead?"

    She called to mind the map of the complex she had seen two months ago after its original refurbishing. "Nothing really, just another capillary node. There shouldn't be anything down here unless they are hoping to hole up."

    "Well that has the sound of a ritual..." Viserys paused a moment to think, then added. "Wait here, I'll scout ahead."

    Familiar words indeed, Lya snorted inwardly in spite of the weight on the air. Ser Richard would have words with all of them.

    Time crawled by as they waited, every wet sound of the dying filaments, every hiss of the burned web strands amplified in the silence that followed, then Viserys' mind echoed in all their minds. "I found those Leng Spiders, but they aren't trying to summon aid from the Far Realm... They are trying to invoke the Demon Queen of the Depths, the Lady of the dark folk."

    Lya's blood ran cold. Of course the Deep Ones would not try any sort of subtle corruption with their pawn discovered. They were mighty, but not yet so mighty as to challenge the Old Gods in a place of their power on the strength of a few scribbling on the wall, but this... 'Let's you and him fight', the saying went in Braavos. The last thing they needed was an incursion of whatever the dark folk of Morwyn's and Tuin's kin had become in the deep dark.

    You discovered ad cabal of seven newly-hatched leng spiders praying to Lolth for deliverance. What do you do?

    [] Burn it all in primordial flame, the faster they die the better

    [] Try to get them to botch the ritual, perhaps anger will make the capricious goddess turn her eye away

    [] Try to capture all of them, you might as well get some information out of this

    [] Write in

    OOC: I wanted to try something a little different PoV-wise since we so rarely see these expeditions from the perspective of anyone but Viserys when he is present.
     
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