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

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@DragonParadox, @egoo, @Goldfish, if we change the armor price, I would propose to switch the VS with Imperial Steel, which doubles the cost of that part of the meta-material, and lower the enchanting cost by a lower amount. So the total price would go up and it would require more rare materials, but instead slightly less crafting cost / time.
 
Azel said:

AN: Success on all fronts. He lives. For a given definition of living.
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He's an unholy abomination in the eyes of gods and men, his flesh a canvas, his mind a mere framework to his whims.

He does not exist upon the world, but allows the world to touch him.

He has climbed his raison d'être to the upmost peak and then clawed the sky to climb ever further.

He stares into the abyss and finds it not only wanting, but sub par.

He is, to use KSBD terminology, the very definition of Royalty.

There are no words in the tongues of Men or Mer to describe how awestruck I am at this moment.
 
Holy shit, good job Qyburn. @Azel, if you have the time mind sharing the mechanical details behind his transformation? I know you mentioned it's a custom race per PF rules, but I'm real curious about the deep nitty gritty details.

I personally really enjoyed the description of the "egg" and all the weird stuff coming out of it. Glass hair is especially cool.
 
Azel said:
@DragonParadox, @egoo, @Goldfish, if we change the armor price, I would propose to switch the VS with Imperial Steel, which doubles the cost of that part of the meta-material, and lower the enchanting cost by a lower amount. So the total price would go up and it would require more rare materials, but instead slightly less crafting cost / time.
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Sure, that sounds balanced enough. I just did not want the discussion to drag when there was so much other cool stuff to talk about.
 
Goldfish said:
I could care less about the price. It is the time which concerns me. The more expensive they are, the longer it takes to enchant them, and the fewer we can reasonably produce when we have so many other demands on our crafters' time.

At that price tag we just won't be making many of them any time soon, unfortunately. I won't push to change it, though.

Okay, that's fine with me. Was just doing what I do.
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I get it and, I spoke everything I spoke, with full understanding of the fact.

I'd rather the armors remain long-and-hard-to-make thing we'd gear out only some of the best men we have into (the rest can get cheap-and-'quick'-pre-PA thing. I forgot the name of the one, the scale thing worked from a bunch of sources), lest we again wonder why Devils/Efreeti/whoever dont gear out their shock troopers into the similar form of armor, having resources many times' ours.

Sandor will clearly need one set, ofc.

The rest of my argument went about "no, we didn't work long at all on it, it is actually kinda ridiculous how fast it went".

...Sorry if toxic, I don't exactly like how most of the actions I made up and some I just pushed through messed up the narrative and the SoD'ness of the whole setting a fair bit quite a few times.

Shutting up naow.
 
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egoo said:
Also, I can't help but notice that he's all sorts of... Psion-y.
:V

While a distinctly different sort than Jeyne, would he be of use for training/guiding her in her powers, @Azel, @DragonParadox?

Or would he be inclined to try and halp, rather?
(I assume Viserys can talk her into accepting teaching in spite of fears/distrust/PTSD if Quburn is in fact willing to give some. Viserys is bullshit enough)

Gith weren't too useful in the regard, although that's probably understandable considering how she's essentially nobody/nothing for 'em level/reputation-wise and doesnt really warrant personal guidance.
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He will write down what he knows on psionics (which is a lot, given that he just ate an Ulitharids mind), but I haven't talked with DP about the mechanics for him to train others.
TalonofAnathrax said:
I see.
How does the feat changing work, actually? Is that a racial thing?
I was surprised by it at first (especially as he somehow instantly grows a necrotic cyst and leans new magic/psionic tricks upon changing loadout), but it fits the whole "MY MUTABLE MODY FOLLOWS MY WILL!!!" thing he has going on.
I used all caps because while I know that Qyburn is normally soft-spoken, he'd better have occasional cackles and maddened ranting after this absolutely mad science.
Half-baked experimental abominations need a little instability, dammit! Or at least some disturbing ways of expressing their focus on weird, esoteric research that horrifies normal people!
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His switching of feats and powers works by using the Pathfinder version Psychic Reformation, which allows you to switch Feats, skills, powers and so on, but not class levels.
He can also use it on other people, but that requires obviously for the person to have his entire mind rewritten by Qyburn, so I'm not expecting many takers.

As for the cyst, it's just a specialized tumor / organ. He can turn himself into a fair approximation of Cthulhu by wanting it, so that is small fry in comparison.
 
How long have you had that picture waiting to use, @Azel, and where is it from? If it's from a game, I mean?
 
DragonParadox said:
It's fine, for what it'w worth steam has been ticking away in the backgfround for the better part of a year, this did not all get done in a month. It was just on screen for a month.
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... I would really like to having had shut il now, but you dont leave me choice DP! :o
:V

Yeah, steam is fine.

It's the Powered Armor that went too fast too soon for my tastes, with no real build-up or foreshadowing like the Bulabar's years-long experiments, and now we again argued it, like we did for years.

Doesnt leave one in the best mood foe judging how almost all of past RAs had small-to-major inconsistencies with the setting beyond Planetos.

Night y'all.
 
egoo said:
... I would really like to having had shut il now, but you dont leave me choice DP! :o
:V

Yeah, steam is fine.

It's the Powered Armor that went too fast too soon for my tastes, with no real build-up or foreshadowing like the Bulabar's years-long experiments, and now we again argued it, like we did for years.

Doesnt leave one in the best mood foe judging how almost all of past RAs had small-to-major inconsistencies with the setting beyond Planetos.

Night y'all.
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The power armor took four months of build up to get starting from the composite which itself built up on fey lore and Varys' Mithirl mesh.
 
egoo said:
... I would really like to having had shut il now, but you dont leave me choice DP! :o
:V

Yeah, steam is fine.

It's the Powered Armor that went too fast too soon for my tastes, with no real build-up or foreshadowing like the Bulabar's years-long experiments, and now we again argued it, like we did for years.

Doesnt leave one in the best mood foe judging how almost all of past RAs had small-to-major inconsistencies with the setting beyond Planetos.

Night y'all.
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The power armor is basically a stripped down and specialized Construct, which we have plenty of experience with in many different forms. Developing the armor was not creating something new, it was just applying existing magitek in a different manner.
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
Remove these last few words and add a pretty flag, and this update is the creepiest unironic "trans rights" fic I've ever read :D
Government-funded unrestricted operations to free yourself from the restrictive determinism of undirected biology? Why, if it wasn't dangerous medical experimentation conducted on a patient who's (by normal metrics) too insane to consent, this would be downright progressive! Not what you'd expect from an absolute monarch who explicitly defends humans and "their" world, but I'll take it! You do you, Qyburn! Be happy, and be who you really are!
:p
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On that note, Viserys never judged anyone or anything for what it was or what it wanted to be. And it's not as if the main party hasn't their fair share of trans-humanism.

Viserys is a Dragon.
Lya became kind of a half-Outsider.
Dany became an Outsider.
Ryna became a Fey.

So why would he judge someone for becoming the best version of themselves? He isn't so narrow minded as to complain if that best version is a bleeding sore in the face of reality.

I'm pretty sure that if Bloodraven was pried from his tree and asked to be reincarnated as a girl, nobody, neither IC nor OOC, would even notice that this might be considered weird.
 
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DragonParadox said:
It should be noted that while Viserys is invested in defending the Prime Material from gettinf swallowed by other planes, he has no particular attachment to humanity as opposed to say Singers or serpentfolk besides having been born a human. He does not think the world rightfully belongs to humans or anything.
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Azel said:
On that note, Viserys never judged anyone or anything for what it was or what it wanted to be. And it's not as if the main party hasn't their fair share of trans-humanism.

Viserys is a Dragon.
Lya became kind of a half-Outsider.
Dany became an Outsider.
Ryna became a Fey.

So why would he judge someone for becoming the best version of themselves? He isn't so narrow minded as to complain if that best version is a bleeding sore in the face of reality.

I'm pretty sure that if Bloodraven was pried from his tree and asked to be reincarnated as a girl, nobody, neither IC nor OOC, would even notice that this might be considered weird.
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Yes, I'm aware that Mr "I collect sentient species to have the most multi-everything capital city possible" isn't a human supremacist. But we did make a few speeches which could be interpreted in that light, and I was framing things to fit my joke.

Azel said:
Hearthstone and I had that picture waiting since... Probably at least a year ago. One and a half most likely.

This was a long time in the making to properly foreshadow and lead up to this moment.
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Payoff was good, man. Worth the effort, I hope, because I appreciated it quite a lot!
 
Hmh.

@Azel, @Crake, @Duesal, I return with the "half-asleep ideas" to y'all.
It is cheesy and cheap, but it's a thing acknowledged in-setting...

We gave a ridiculous amount of Knowledge: History in our library. +47 or something?

For context, Knowledge of Planetos pre-First Long Night needs roll of 100 to be known by the one rolling, as per DP's ruling earlier.
It is already (if barely) within Viserys' reach if properly buffed and in our library.

And this Knowledge is unique to Plane of Balance and it alone.

If we are to take all of it to the Shaitan Spire, we probably could get an incredibly good exchange of knowledge: Psionics from them.

And by this point of our inter-state cooperation and our take-over of the Planetos it really doesn't matter what info any of the Genie find in our history books, because they really, really aren't going to do anything against us on a state level...
...Or even be able to do anything to affect our Planar dominance later with, by the time Efreeti War's over, either.

So there is no real paranoiac reason to hold into it right now either, unlike our first visit.
 
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TalonofAnathrax said:
Payoff was good, man. Worth the effort, I hope, because I appreciated it quite a lot!
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And I'm glad that people liked it. I for one am quite happy to see this arc concluded.

There's one more thing to do though. A bit of useful information about the Citadel the dear Illithid picked up and that fills in a few gaps of Qyburns own knowledge on his Alma Mater.
If the stars align, there might be a reckoning.
 
Azel said:
If the stars align, there might be a reckoning.
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When the time comes, Qyburn should either descend from the sky during some event of obscure astrological significance, or he should crawl out from the deeps beneath the tower (possibly though some little-known and less-defended entrance - it fits his backstory and it firs the eldritch monster theme!).
Obviously he's an Aberration now and should trip every single ward they have, but what kind of reckoning with the beast from beyond reality that you cast out doesn't have a last-minute alarm and a brutal fight to the fate-worse-than-death?
 
Low-key nobody mentioning the fact we can build TRAINS now?!

Fuck, I can't wait to travel on one, for the sheer novelty of it. Even if we get off after one stop, we have to do it at least once!
 
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