- Location
- Germany
Well, then maybe for his successor.
Or not at all.
Depends on how much we can beat the Others, maybe the position under that tree up north will be unecessary.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Or not at all.
Depends on how much we can beat the Others, maybe the position under that tree up north will be unecessary.
- Location
- Germany
I'd take those out. We got roughly parity between high-CR minddragons and Myrkdreki, and I think that's fine.
Better to not spam them, especially if we want to design three more breeds. (Still toying with that Parchment Dragon idea.)
Rhoyne group can be immediately deployed as that is that big river going from Golden Fields (Oberyns fief) to Volantis.
The Old Town group can be immediately deployed, since we are allied with all relevant people there. Keep the forces for the Mander there too until the invasion.
Likewise, Iron Isles group can be immediately deployed and the group for Greyport should wait there for the invasion.
Dragonstone the same, letting the group for Saltpans wait there. Also add another group for Kings Landing, which will also wait in Dragonstone. (To be more precise, these groups will defend Driftmark for now, which is part of the Dragonstone province).
The group for White Harbor should wait in Braavos as that is much closer.
Dragonstone, Driftmark, King's Landing, Gulltown and Duskendale groups wait in Dragonstone.
Sunspear and Storm's End wait in SD.
Iron Isles, Greyport and Bear Island wait in the Iron Isles.
Note to self: Deploy some Heralds to Dragonstone for the invasion. They will then call for the surrender of any Baratheon or Lannister aligned fleets in Blackwater Bay, calling the aquatic defense groups in to summarily sink any ship that does not comply.
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egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
I was under an impression we had more Mind Dragons than Myrkdreki, although I didn't check through everything again before writing this one in...
And I'm away from my PC at the moment again D:
I'll edit the mentioned dislocation to every group when able.
- Location
- Germany
No, the Minddragons just get way more screentime then the Myrkdreki.
- Location
- Germany
They existed for a longer time, so they have overall much more, but I think since Myrkdreki became a thing they got roughly the same screentime as their mind-reading cousins?
- Location
- Germany
Not really. We got far fewer Myrkdreki in active circulation, instead having deployed a bunch of them on background assignments at the start. Meanwhile, the Minddragons got dropped everywhere. Pretty much every single Intrigue action had at least one of them around and they nearly always got screentime.
- Location
- Germany
Part of that impression might be that I can rarely mentally seperate your updates from DPs when they are a few weeks in the past, so Qyburns journey (with a decent amount of Myrkdreki-time) counts when I try to guess the screentime.
Without that you are propably right?
- Location
- Germany
Rule of thumb: If it involves Qyburn or Elaheh, it's extremely likely that it's my work.
- Location
- United States
[X] Runecraft and other works of the First Men in Sorcerer's Deep to take advantage of their connection to the Old Gods
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[X] Crake
Winning Vote
Interlude CMXVII: Steam and Sorcery
Steam and Sorcery
Eighteenth Day of the Third Month 294 AC
Bloodstone Isle, Experimental Track Number One
As the engine roared along the tracks with the clank of steel gears and the whistle of lashed steam Beryl could not hold back a whoop of joy, a reminder that she was by one measure no older than twenty and by another not even one year old. They were going almost twice as fast as a pegasus on the wing, faster than a speeding dragon even clattering along the steel track, and there was barely any magic to it! It had been Beryl's idea to turn the tremendous force of steam to more than launching bolts out of siege weapons, and it had worked it really worked.
"Smooth as silk she runs! We did it!" she cheered along side the chittering tinker fey who had done so much to push the cause of steam forward in the past few years, even if their enthusiasm at times gave more down to earth engineers pause. And with her cheered the young and not so young 'gear-heads' of the University's Applied Physics Department. Though they had gotten the name as part of a less than friendly gibe from Scholarum mages who discounted mundane studies in favor of the arcane, they had made it their own and they had prospered and grown even as the projects grew more ambitious.
Of course, the giant grant from the Crown they had gotten this month as well as help from herself and Anu in their official capacity had pushed the development forward enormously, allowing them to leap over bench models and small scale experiments and straight to Bertha, which could actually carry passengers or meaningful amounts of cargo.
Named for the sweetheart of one of the lead engineers and also incidentally the sister of another in the sort of tangled affair that had been tense when revealed and cause for laughter and drinks all around in retrospect, the engine could hit a top speed of thirty miles per hour and pull forty tons of mass rolling along the track without struggling. It was also as tireless as the Ever-Flame that fueled its boiler, though one clever lad had pointed out that you didn't even strictly need a magical flame. You could just burn charcoal, whale oil, maybe even wood to make an engine like Bertha run, although the engineering challenges of the latter might just be too large to result in a functioning machine.
Little as Beryl liked to consider the possibility, the idea of a way to keep the Empire together even if the Whispering Braziers failed and the Three-Eyed Ravens fell from the sky was satisfying. She shook her head, now wasn't the time to be thinking about how the bloody world could end, they had to take the engine through her paces and then write up their final report.
"Any thoughts on what we might name the devices as a whole?" Anu asked from beside her. The brass man had been less prone to cheering and whooping, but the smile on his face was no less genuine for it.
Beryl shrugged, she did not care for the need of some engineers and especially academics to give exacting names to their works. The best names were titles gained in the doing of something. "Just call them Berthas."
"I think that would be stretching the young lady's forbearance rather far," the magesmith replied with a shake of his head. "Perhaps 'locomotive', that which moves will serve as both instructive and an easy name to recall."
"Sure," Beryl replied, privately certain someone would shorten the five syllable word the moment it went into circulation
Steam's Motion Given Form Complete 45/35
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Legion Base, Westhaven
As chance would have it that very same day another of Beryl's sisters was also celebrating her success, and if hers walked on armored feet by sorcery and golem-craft rather than rolling on wheels through the power of steam that made the cheers no less heartfelt.
"Did you see that, punched right through the bear's head 'e did...."
"Bear, that's nothing! You should've seen it take on the wandering mountain. Now that should've been in the arena and up on the mirrors..."
Valeria was very glad for the convenience of conjured opponents to put the Warden Armor through its paces and even more glad for the generally positive reactions from the legionnaires. After all, these were toys most of them would never come close to playing with. Rather than any veiled resentment the soldiers seemed genuinely enthusiastic to see it deployed in the next campaign, rumored to be westwards. She did not have the heart to tell them most of the lords of Westeros did not have anything that would require a Warden Pattern armor to fight. Maybe when they got to the Westerlands....
Tireless Steel by Sorcery Moved Complete 11/5
Warden Pattern Armor
Armor Bonus 10
Enhancement Bonus +3
Maximum Dexterity Bonus +2
Armor Check Penalty -6
Land Speed 30 ft.
Weight 100 lb.
Strength +2
DR 5/-
Cost: 50 lb. of Valyrian Steel (worth 5,000 IM); 20 lb. of Mithral (worth 2,000 IM); 10 lb. of Adamantine (worth 800 IM); 8,000 IM for enchanting; Total cost of 15,800 IM
Market Value: 31,600 IM / 316,000 GP
Warden Pattern Shield
Fearsome Ghost Ward Extreme Shield +3 with Greater Lifekeeping Crystal
Shield Bonus 3
Enhancement Bonus +3
Armor Check Penalty -4
+5 on saves against energy drain attacks, inflict spells, and death effects; reroll 1 such failed save per day
+5 to Intimidate [Enhancement], can demoralize foe as Move action
Cost: 28 lb. of Valyrian Steel (worth 2,800 IM); 1,800 IM; Total cost of 4,600 IM
Market Value: 9,200 IM / 92,000 GP
Armor Bonus 10
Enhancement Bonus +3
Maximum Dexterity Bonus +2
Armor Check Penalty -6
Land Speed 30 ft.
Weight 100 lb.
Strength +2
DR 5/-
Cost: 50 lb. of Valyrian Steel (worth 5,000 IM); 20 lb. of Mithral (worth 2,000 IM); 10 lb. of Adamantine (worth 800 IM); 8,000 IM for enchanting; Total cost of 15,800 IM
Market Value: 31,600 IM / 316,000 GP
Warden Pattern Shield
Fearsome Ghost Ward Extreme Shield +3 with Greater Lifekeeping Crystal
Shield Bonus 3
Enhancement Bonus +3
Armor Check Penalty -4
+5 on saves against energy drain attacks, inflict spells, and death effects; reroll 1 such failed save per day
+5 to Intimidate [Enhancement], can demoralize foe as Move action
Cost: 28 lb. of Valyrian Steel (worth 2,800 IM); 1,800 IM; Total cost of 4,600 IM
Market Value: 9,200 IM / 92,000 GP
What next?
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OOC: The reason I put the cost of the Steam action here is that I did not see it on the google sheet and I wanted to make sure it would be up and easy to find in order to deduce from your budget.
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egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
Well, shit, that was a lot of good rolls.
Didn't expect that done this month.
Mhm. You really oughtta make all of RAs harder on Progress at this point, @DragonParadox.
It was in the turnvote tho'?
I get that the GDocs are easier for you to use, and keep track of things in, but it seems that most people link back to the in-thread sources.
There is no real need to worry about this as such?
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[X] Plan: "I AAAAAM COMMUNICATING THIS VOTE TO YOOOOU WITH MY MIIIIIIND!"
[X] Secure the Flesh Forge, and the Fleshsmiths, against memetic attacks.
-[X] Heavy defenses
(Progress 0/45; Cost 600,000 IM)
----[X] Lady Saenena (4d6 Progress); Elaheh Marita (4d6 Progress); Tyrosh Scholarum Branch (2d6 Progress);
[X] The Mind's Games: The psychological effects of repeated and sustained enchantment on the mental state and brain of the average person.
(Progress 11/32 )
----[X] Svitran the Dreamer (4d6 Progress);
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Mind, it just seems to me that these two are close enough together in the idea that we can lob both into a chapter.
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- United States
I can't wait to see the Praetorians rocking this.
Same, I was not expecting steam tech to be completed this month.
I kind of want to see every defense Qohor has for their Forge and then copy them.
[X] egoo
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
LOL, Berthas. You almost did it, Beryl, you were this close to making "Bertha" sexy again, at least for future train aficionados.