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

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BronzeTongue said:
That just means that to get her to abandon the prime material again we'd need something hurt as valuable and interesting as playing with the Drow was. I don't like the idea of giving a demon anything like that, especially one as powerful as Lloth is.
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Spite. She took the drow in the first place to spite her husband.

I actually agree with you, but should not is different from can not.

Depends on what they summon really.
 
zxzx24 said:
Spite. She took the drow in the first place to spite her husband.

I actually agree with you, but should not is different from can not.

Depends on what they summon really.
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The risk/reward ratio is better if we build something nice out of its throughly charred corpse instead of talking. The spider bitch isn't nearly as stupid as she is sadistic, so it'll be something relatively loyal and fucked up.

This is also a facility directly connected to the old gods, so I'm not enthused about the idea of any major outsider having the chance to poke around in here. If they maim Viserys' plant based grandparent substitute we'd have to table Westeros or something again so that we could go harvest enough demons to nurse them back to health, which would be a huge pain.
 
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  • [X] Exterminatus, Continued
    -[X] Try to capture some of the Leng Spiders, but take no chances that they might escape or hurriedly complete their ritual.
    --[X] Dany, Lya, and Vee all activate their Beads of Karma again, assuming the first use has expired.
    ---[X] Dany begins the attack by canceling her Sign buff to set her Initiative result to 28, casts Assay Spell Resistance, then targets the Leng Spiders with a Reached Chained Sacramental Seal using Inspired Spell (DC 27 Will save for primary target, DC 23 for secondary targets). She cancels her Battlemagic Perception spell to Counterspell anything that slips by Vee, Lya, and Viserys as a Free Action.
    ---[X] Vee casts Particulate Form on the group before combat, then casts Summon Monster VIII to Summon a Monadic deva to send against the Leng Spiders. She readies an action to Counterspell anything one of the Leng Spiders attempts to cast and uses her ring to Counterspell the first spell they use as an Immediate Action.
    ---[X] Lya casts Arcane Spellsurge and Aura of Vitality before combat. Once the attack begins, she cancels her Heightened Awareness buff to set her Initiative bonus to +12 targets one of the Leng Spiders with Greater Shadow Enchantment to duplicate a Feeblemind spell (DC 31 Will save) as a Swift Action then uses Inspired Spell to duplicate a Radiant Assault spell (15d6 damage & Dazed for 1d6 rounds, DC 27 Will save for half damage and no Daze). Her priority target for Feeblemind is a Leng Spider that escapes Dany's Sacramental Seal spell, and she only uses Radiant Assault if there are any remaining free afterward. She cancels her Battlemagic Perception spell to Counterspell anything that slips by Vee as a Free Action.
    --[X] Viserys casts Freezing Glance before combat. Once the attack begins, he uses Freezing Glance (DC 30 Will save) as a Free Action against one of the Leng Spiders if any escape Dany's spell, followed by a Quickened Imperious Glare spell (DC 30 Will save) as a Swift Action targeting any remaining spiders. If there are any unsubdued Leng Spiders remaining after everyone has acted against them, Viserys spends one Mythic power to activated Amazing Initiative to in turn activate his Belt of Battle in order to gain another Standard Action worth of spellcasting, then uses Wild Arcana to target those remaining with a Maximized Massacre spell (DC 33 Fortitude save). He cancels his Battlemagic Perception spell to Counterspell anything that slips by Vee and Lya as a Free Action.
    --[X] Varys stands in for Richard, acting to defend the group if necessary, favoring her Maximized Venomfire-augmented tail stinger attack (120 points of Acid damage per sting).
    -[X] Incapacitated Leng Spiders will be placed in Amber Sarcophagus spells in the following rounds.
    [X] Burn it all in primordial flame, the faster they die the better
    [X] Exterminatus, Continued
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Part MMMDLXIV: Dreams of Darkness
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    • Dreams of Darkness ​

    Twenty Seventh Day of the First Month 294 AC

    There were not grand columns here, no soaring arches of bone, there was no arcane script upon the walls, no incense in the air, only a minor node at the end of one of the Forge's longest capillaries, a place to draw minerals from the deep earth to supplement the bodies fed into its harvesting chambers. Yet in this place there was a ritual terrible and desperate as any you have ever seen.

    Seven many-legged figures no larger than a hound shuffled in the dark, their legs like fractures in the air blacker than night, always shifting, always changing... always even never odd. Their eyes are not bright and yet they shine with light and madness begotten. It is almost beautiful, you shake off the thought with an inward shudder as though you had just just stepped into a clutching bog without noticing, though you are currently in a diminutive draconic form clutching at the stone with needle sharp claws.

    You can hear the others behind you. Lya's determined stride, though lighter than usual, Vee's tread whisper soft even here beneath the earth where only lichen and strange fungus grows, Dany on wings of silver.

    "Now." The word rings across five minds.

    Dany's spell ripples through the cave, a web of energy means to bind and ensnare... but the ritual only seems to drink it in deep and greedily, grounding the dream-wrought magics to some other realm.

    There is a scuttling at the edge of perceptions, a thousand thousand black and slender legs ranging in a hall of dying echoes.

    Vee commands a false angel into the battle, but its form melts as soon as it crosses the threshold, the light of its wings unable to pierce the growing gloom. It is Lya who lands the first telling blow, a whispered spell of mind's undoing, her fear made all the sharper weapon in her hand.

    One of the spiders breaks off from their dreadful dance to pounce on Varys and snare her in the threads of web that trail them like ribbons from some mad festival. Her stinger darts into its belly heavy with arcane venom and the darkness screams in a thousand tongues at once:

    "Who Dares Defile The Dance of My Worship, Who Stings the Brood of My Dreams?"

    Around you the Forge quakes as the wrath and the malice of the voice washes over you, but this is not the first time you have heard a god's voice, nor those who stand beside you, nor even is it the only time you have faced one in their wrath. There are more terrors in the world than gods... and in this place and in this hour you are one.

    Terror radiates around your form out of all proportion with the diminutive form you now wear and of the six spiders who still have their wits about them three now cower, their dance stilled, their fearsome mien lost.

    The final pair cast one last desperate prayer, death and ruin upon all that lives they call in tongues of malice and madness. You are still inside the Forge... the Forge is alive.

    Whether their goddess would or indeed could grant them their will you will never know, before the final word is uttered you will death manifest upon this hall, cold, pitiless and final, and the spiders crumple. No more things of alien fractals, but grotesque puppets with their strings cut and with them dies the ritual.

    Lya is quick to seal away those who remain. In the wake of her magic there is only heavy breathing and heartbeats made quicker with fear of what you had just narrowly avoided.

    "Damn," you breathe into the silence. "That was..."

    "I don't think she would've actually done it," Vee interjects. "Not all the way, the Old Gods would have fought. Could've damaged the roots though."

    "Well I for one am glad we do not have to figure out how to repair the Forge from divine sabotage, though I am even more curious as to how the Hells the Deep Ones were able to drive Urak to seed the Forge with the children of... Her black dreams."

    "Xor said they were of the Far Realm and the Dreamlands both. Leng is an island deep in the Dreamlands where only madmen walk, unknowing for most, knowing for some seeking wealth and secrets," Dany interjects.

    What do you do next?

    [] Interrogate Urak
    -[] Write in

    [] Interrogate Saenena
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: Not the worst outcome you could have had here by a longshot, but Lolth definitely noticed.
     
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    • zxzx24 said:
    Well shes got a long list of grudges to work through already. I doubt this put us on top of her list.
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    Well now I'm just insulted.

    Clearly we need to pull a Tiamat and steal her liver.

    Also we should let our divine allies know that Lloth is now on the list, if the Moon goddess is her daughter like we suspect I'm sure she'd appreciate the heads up.
     
    Evaunit02mark1 said:
    Well now I'm just insulted.

    Clearly we need to pull a Tiamat and steal her liver.

    Also we should let our divine allies know that Lloth is now on the list, if the Moon goddess is her daughter like we suspect I'm sure she'd appreciate the heads up.
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    Lots of uses for giant spider parts. Isn't that how we filled up the forge the first time?
     
    I think that we should call back Xor from wherever he is, we need Far Realm expertise to notice if something really happened.

    Also, I would like for Yss to vouch for Urak's eventual restoration, or if he could eat and spit him again.
     
    @Tomcost Well, she is a Demon God.

    [X] Sacrifice the Leng Spiders you captured to have Yss pour over their secrets and the truths hidden in madness within Urak as only a God can. You don't need to risk your own mind this way, and Yss can afford to be as precise as necessary with a mind and soul he originally forged.
    -[X] Evaluate from what you learn how to handle not only Saenena but anyone else who might have come in contact with Far Realm taint, memetic or otherwise.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    This is not the first time you have heard a god's voice, nor those who stand beside you, nor even is it the only time you have faced one in their wrath. There are more terrors in the world than gods... and in this place and in this hour you are one.
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    Once is pure bravado, twice a dangerous gamble, thrice a mitigated risk. After that... "Ah, yet another incursion. How very quaint."

    [X] Crake
     
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