I wonder if Vargo is an occultist? That's the first class that comes to my mind when you say 'UMD focused'. Someone with better knowledge of 3.5 please tell me if they have other ideas, I only ever played PF.
I wonder if Vargo is an occultist? That's the first class that comes to my mind when you say 'UMD focused'. Someone with better knowledge of 3.5 please tell me if they have other ideas, I only ever played PF.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jun 24, 2020 at 12:18 PM, finished with 37 posts and 14 votes.
[X] Accept, Marwyn will be made the last Grand Maester of the Citadel before its abolishment and will be able to advocate for his fellow maesters -[X] He will be able to advocate, though this does not give him the final say. The Citadel will still be thoroughly investigated.
I once played in an all rogue party. There was the fight-y thug for the front line, the arcane trickster for magic support, the cleric of a pirate goddess multi-classed from rogue and the monk-rogue combo to kill people with his bare hands. The GM stopped using traps at all after a while.
Do we trust Marwyn's company enough to assign them to: a) Acting against the Fey in Reach b) Looking into Qohor c) Fucking around in Slavers' Bay
from the get-go, @everyone?
I'm conflicted between keeping in-character and being paranoid, and grabbing onto the mid-to-high level PC party like a lifeline.
...Yeh, the month-plan is not coming well together.
Do we trust Marwyn's company enough to assign them to: a) Acting against the Fey in Reach b) Looking into Qohor c) Fucking around in Slavers' Bay
from the get-go, @everyone?
I'm conflicted between keeping in-character and being paranoid, and grabbing onto the mid-to-high level PC party like a lifeline.
...Yeh, the month-plan is not coming well together.
I would like to get a better idea of their capabilities before we assign them any important tasks. That said, I think the Reach might be the best place to send them from the three options. There is stuff they can do to help without drastically endangering any critical operations. Depending on how they perform there, we should be able to better determine where they would be best used.
Do we trust Marwyn's company enough to assign them to: a) Acting against the Fey in Reach b) Looking into Qohor c) Fucking around in Slavers' Bay
from the get-go, @everyone?
I'm conflicted between keeping in-character and being paranoid, and grabbing onto the mid-to-high level PC party like a lifeline.
...Yeh, the month-plan is not coming well together.
Maelor and Bronn are very well suited to working at our shop in the COB, though, and they've only been there a few months IC. It's a tough assignment, but it comes with a lot of responsibility and trust, as befitting the Dragon King's apprentice.
Marwyn and his pals are much too new to our service to trust them with that kind of task. We also don't know if they have the right skills and abilities to even perform the job.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jun 24, 2020 at 12:18 PM, finished with 37 posts and 14 votes.
[X] Accept, Marwyn will be made the last Grand Maester of the Citadel before its abolishment and will be able to advocate for his fellow maesters -[X] He will be able to advocate, though this does not give him the final say. The Citadel will still be thoroughly investigated.
"A bargain then... Grand Maester," you reply after a moment. As little love as you bear for the Order of Maesters its long and storied history deserves to end under better stewardship than Pycelle's, if the fool somehow survives King's Landing to the conquest. Still... "You may advocate for any you see fit, however the Citadel will still be thoroughly investigated."
"Of course Your Grace, you would be a fool to do otherwise and I do not offer my services to fools," Marwyn replies. A bit of the resolve goes out of his posture with a sigh. "Or at least I thought I didn't, but I have been proven wrong before."
"This again," Ashin mutters something you are quite sure is uncomplimentary under his breath in his native tongue. "You can lay your regrets there on parchment along with all the rest of the lore the Dragon will doubtless wish to know."
To your slight surprise Sari does not add some exasperated comment of her own but instead gives the archmaester a sympathetic look.
"It will take a few days to lay everything down neatly, Your Grace," Vargo adds in the slightly awkward silence that follows.
"Take all the time you need," you reply.
"As long as there isn't a portal to hell getting opened tomorrow that you really should be telling us about now or the like," Dany interjects only half in jest, though she smiles.
It says something about the four people gathered at the Golden Hearth that neither of them laugh at the notion anymore than they do to the one who bears it, merely assure her that there is nothing urgent. You have no doubt the results will make for interesting reading.
Hired Marwyn and Companions: Full report in their abilities and activities next month
***
Before you can learn any secrets of distant lands and arcane orders there are other papers to sort and other matters closer to home to see to. Reports from the provinces which look to Braavos are mostly good, with work in the Sweetwater leading to the creation of an unorthodox variation on the mounted boat, using swift designs with a kinship to the serpent boats of Braavos proper they can carry news to even the most distant settlements. Verdant Vistas merchants have never been happier, nor the taxman's coffers fuller in their wake, as the distant swamps grow ever closer to the Secret City.
Alas not all journeys through the Braavosi hinterlands to carve a road over muddy hillocks or a path through vine-chocked waterways was as fortunate. Scores of workers fell pray to strange mind-twisting mold from the darker depths of the Feywild, and though the danger was eventually beaten back with steel and fire by the Legion lead by local guides and waded in the magics of the Orphne Fey the damage was done both in lives lost and something more intangible yet precious just the same, trust. The rumors of strange plant creatures infecting the flesh and twisting the minds of men draw worried whispers from half-understood tales of the Flesh Forge and the Old Gods.
According to the Inquisition the worries are still spoken of, if only whispered and dismissed out of hand by educated Braavosi. The local commissar reports that this is the kind of fear mongering that might breed quickly given the chance, or worse yet enemy agents to fan the flames.
Establish Scholarum in Pentos (16/20)
Expand Law Enforcement in Pentos (10/1) -> Complete
Establish Messenger Service in Braavosi Coast (4/43) -> Complications -> Mind Slaver Mold Infestations
Establish Messenger Service in Sweetwater (8/45) -> Critical Success -> Province Wealth increased by 1
Establish Messenger Service in Morrogos (6/11)
How do you deal with the budding anti-flesh-forge sentiment in Braavos?
[] Run a column in the Imperial Times explaining the matter in detail and why the worries are unfounded
[] Organize a public information campaign (Cost 30,000 IM; Progress 10)
[] Send more flesh-forged beings into the city and let their good works speak for them
OOC: Your rolls were really extreme when it came to the d100s for severity/size of the boon this time around.
This doesn't make sense, the plant forge is thousands of miles away from Braavos. What relevance does it hold? We inserted evil fungus in some remote backwater and then sent our own jackbooted thugs to burn it out? Because we like tormenting merchants we have close ties and personal stake in, or the swamp folk that they do business with?
What pisses me off more is that this isn't sounding like "evil sorcerer Viserys meddling in that which he doesn't understand" which is still insulting because of course we understand, but of our/our people's incompetence in managing our own projects.
Well shit. We need our citizens educated enough so that random Fey and Aberration attacks aren't falsely attributed to the Imperium. :/ But 10 Progress hurts.
This doesn't make sense, the plant forge is thousands of miles away from Braavos. What relevance does it hold? We inserted evil fungus in some remote backwater and then sent our own jackbooted thugs to burn it out? Because we like tormenting merchants we have close ties and personal stake in, or the swamp folk that they do business with?
They are scared of talking plants basically. The rumors are not specifically that you have some evil plan to torment merchants, but that maybe that flesh forge creations are part of some more secretive hive mind bent on causing nebulous evil. It's fear of the unknown wrapped up in a leafy package.
They are scared of talking plants basically. The rumors are not specifically that you have some evil plan to torment merchants, but that maybe that flesh forge creations are part of some more secretive hive mind bent on causing nebulous evil. It's fear of the unknown rapped up in a leafy package.
This is stupid as hell, there are barely any plant servitors in Braavos, and most of them are out of sight and defending from underwater threats.
The thing is this is so out of the left field as a "rumor" that I can only attribute it to fucking Lannisters still trying to smear us when they have greater worries--or if not them then Devils or something else. Honestly it's academic at this point, it's reaching so far it can only be false flagging. Are we actually certain it came from the Feywild portal by happenstance, or was it put there by someone else?
For that matter, even if it came out of a random portal, who's to say it wasn't the CoS doing it?
"A bargain then... Grand Maester," you reply after a moment. As little love as you bear the Order of Maesters, its long and storied history deserves to end under better stewardship than Pyrcelle's, if the fool somehow survives King's Landing to the conquest. Still... "Although you may advocate for any you see fit, the Citadel will still be thoroughly investigated."
"Of course, Your Grace. You would be a fool to do otherwise and I do not offer my services to fools," Marwyn replies. A bit of the resolve goes out of his posture with a sigh. "Or at least I thought I didn't, but I have been proven wrong before."
"This again," Ashin mutters something you are quite sure is uncomplimentary under his breath in his native tongue. "You can lay your regrets there on parchment along with all the rest of the lore the dragon will doubtless wish to know."
To your slight surprise, Sari does not add some exasperated comment of her own but gives the Archmaester a sympathetic look.
"It will take a few days to lay everything down neatly, Your Grace," Vargo adds in the slightly awkward silence that follows.
"Take all the time you need," you reply.
"As long as there isn't a portal to Hell getting opened tomorrow that you really should be telling us about now, or the like," Dany interjects only half in jest, though she smiles while doing so.
It says something about the four people gathered at the Golden Hearth that neither of them laugh at the notion, anymore than they do the one who bears it, merely assure her that there is nothing urgent. You have no doubt the results will make for interesting reading.
Hired Marwyn and Companions: Full report in their abilities and activities next month
***
Before you can learn any secrets of distant lands and arcane orders, there are other papers to sort and other matters closer to home to see to. Reports from the provinces which look to Braavos are mostly good, with work in the Sweetwater leading to the creation of an unorthodox variation on the mounted boats. Using swift boats with a kinship to the serpent boats of Braavos proper, they can carry news to even the most distant settlements. Verdant Vistas merchants have never been happier, nor the taxman's coffers fuller in their wake, as the distant swamps grow ever closer to the Secret City.
Alas, not all journeys through the Braavosi hinterlands to carve a road over muddy hillocks or a path through vine-chocked waterways was as fortunate. Scores of workers fell pray to strange mind-twisting mold from the darker depths of the feywyld, and though the danger was eventually beaten back with steel and fire by the legion lead by local guides and waded in the magics of the Orphne Fey, the damage was done both in lives lost and something more intangible yet precious just the same, trust. The rumors of strange plant creatures infecting the flesh and twisting the minds of men, draw worried whispers from half-understood tales of the Flesh Forge and the Old Gods.
According to the inquisition, the worries are still spoken only in whispers and dismissed out of hand by educated Braavosi, but the local commissar reports that this is the kind of fearmongering that might breed quickly given the chance, or worse yet enemy agents working to fan the flames.
Establish Scholarum in Pentos (16/20)
Expand Law Enforcement in Pentos (10/1) -> Complete
Establish Messenger Service in Braavosi Coast (4/43) -> Complications -> Mind Slaver Mold Infestations
Establish Messenger Service in Sweetwater (8/45) -> Critical Success -> Province Wealth increased by 1
Establish Messenger Service in Morrogos (6/11)
How do you deal with the budding anti-flesh-forge sentiment in Braavos?
[] Run a column in the Imperial Times explaining the matter in detail and why the worries are unfounded
[] Organize a public information campaign (Cost 30,000 IM Progress 10)
[] Send more flesh-forged beings into the city and let their good works speak for them
OOC: Your rolls were really extreme when it came to the d100s for severity/size of the boon this time around. Not yet edited.
Here's an edited version of the chapter, @DragonParadox.
This is stupid as hell, there are barely any plant servitors in Braavos, and most of them are out of sight and defending from underwater threats.
The thing is this is so out of the left field as a "rumor" that I can only attribute it to fucking Lannisters still trying to smear us when they have greater worries--or if not them then Devils or something else. Honestly it's academic at this point, it's reaching so far it can only be false flagging. Are we actually certain it came from the Feywild portal by happenstance, or was it put there by someone else?
For that matter, even if it came out of a random portal, who's to say it was the CoS doing it?
There are very visibile plant creatures on the Isle of the Gods guarding the Heart Tree, those are the most likely to be seen by the public and given the island's nature as a place of pilgrimage quite a few people would have seen it
According to the Orphan Fey that particular type of mold definitely comes from the Feywyld and that is basically all they were able to tell you on the matter. It could have ended up there by accident or it could have been seeded
Meaning "you'll get the report somewhere in the 2rnd month and could assign them somewhere starting the 3rd month"?
Or can we get at least a very rough (class and level-range) descriptors and assign somewhere arguably non-risky?
------------------- @Crake, I need halp.
I am confuse.
I have Braavos and Lorath Scholarum branches penned in as "we started building those in the 1st month", but this report on Braavos-territories had nothing about it...
But Pentosi Scholarum Branch is being built, and of it I had no notes.
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Imma sleep now, plz no start turnvote while I slep.
[X] Multiple Public Relations Intersection
-[X] Run a column in the Imperial Times explaining the matter in detail and why the worries are unfounded
-[X] Sponsor more interactions between plant spirits and people in Braavos specifically, if acclimation is what they need then you might as well arrange for it by letting them put their abilities to good use.
-[X] Perform a handful of speeches through MirrorVision and speak about the good work that the plant spirits in your service have done already.
-[X] Have the Inquisition investigate for a Flase Flag operation by one of our enemies. If someone continually agitates with these rumors in a directed manner, you want to know ASAP.
[X] Move onto the results from the Plane of Fire raids.
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