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

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[X] Takesis
Fuck it, there are digs you cannot afford to miss
 
FML, the house I'm supposed to move into this weekend won't be ready for at least another week. I've had to book a hotel suite for a week because I have to be out of my current house regardless.

/head desk
 
@DragonParadox, I know you are a little dejected right now, but things must.
Which of these two interpretations of the vote "throw crown in fire" is the correct one?
Just so we're in the same page.
TalonofAnathrax said:
Actually, shouldn't we be killing all the demons first? Or do you expect to get interrupted so hard that all our minions can't keep them off us?
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Azel said:
As I've read it, the first option is to keep the ritual going while we negotiate. The order of items shouldn't matter.
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is the "Crown. Fire. Now"-option the one that assumes SHIT'S FUCKED and Viserys panickingly bruteforces the ritual?
Or is it really "try to talk it out while keeping the ritual going just in case"?
 
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@DragonParadox, I know you are a little dejected right now, but things must.
Which of these two interpretations of the vote "throw crown in fire" is the correct one?
Just so we're in the same page.
is the "Crown. Fire. Now"-option the one that assumes SHIT'S FUCKED and Viserys panickingly bruteforces the ritual?
Or is it really "try to talk it out while keeping the ritual going just in case"?
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Azel has the right of it. Feeding the demons first is trying to get more leverage as you negotiate

Anyway vote closed.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Nov 10, 2020 at 3:48 PM, finished with 79 posts and 22 votes.
  • [X] "I heard many of my enemies try to bargain when they realized they had overplayed their hand. You know how I answer such pleas?"
    -[X] Cast the crown into the fire and set the great curse in motion.
    [X] "You should have sent a raven then."
    -[X] Cast the crown into the fire and set the great curse in motion.
    [X] Refuse to answer, cast the crown into the fire and set the great curse in motion
    [X] Refuse to answer, cast the crown into the fire and set the great curse in motion
    - [X] "The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, and the plans of your Court are too much of an obstacle for mine. Goodbye." Tosses crown into the fire.
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Crake said:
More shitposting? This is a constructive thread filled with fruitful discussion, you know.
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Nov 10, 2020 at 3:48 PM, finished with 79 posts and 22 votes.
  • [X] "I heard many of my enemies try to bargain when they realized they had overplayed their hand. You know how I answer such pleas?"
    -[X] Cast the crown into the fire and set the great curse in motion.
    [X] "You should have sent a raven then."
    -[X] Cast the crown into the fire and set the great curse in motion.
    [X] Refuse to answer, cast the crown into the fire and set the great curse in motion
    [X] Refuse to answer, cast the crown into the fire and set the great curse in motion
    - [X] "The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, and the plans of your Court are too much of an obstacle for mine. Goodbye." Tosses crown into the fire.
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Part MMMDCXLV: Starfall
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    • Starfall ​

    Thirteenth Day of the Third Month 294 AC

    "I heard many of my enemies try to bargain when they realized they had overplayed their hand. You know how I answer such pleas?" Your words are sharp and heavy as the executioner's axe, or so at least you hope. Time seems to streach out painfully and not of your will as the Crown writhes and grasps your wrists, unwilling to be fed into the flames.

    It's not the only thing that can change...

    Wings burst from your back and scales grow upon your flesh as in a single long breath you take on draconic form, and with clawed hands rip the vines away and cast the crown into the flames.

    As soon as blooming vines meets the blaze a spiral of light bursts forth. At once it is fire holy to R'hllor the Red and a floury of crimson leaves fallen from the tree above. It is serpent's scales coiling through eternity and a current of water through the deepest blackest ocean seas. It is all these things and one inescapable reality above all others.

    Death ​

    All that is born must die, all that has a beginning must have an end, even the grandest of tales, the tallest trees and deepest roots. You can feel the Queen still as your chant rises into a crescendo. You know that she is doomed and so does she, and in that moment the Star Crowned does something you had not expected, she allows death to take her utterly. Dying in a inferno stoked with the souls of fiends, slowing the curse, the poison upon her court, giving the lords a chance to muster their own defenses and preserve their domains.

    The voice of R'hllor is growing familiar in your ear telling of the ruin of the Crimson Blade, for they sought to match strength against strength and proved by far the weaker. The ever-tumbling tower tumbles one last time and from this there shall be no rising. Scattered are the warriors of the faerie and you are well content.

    As Tyene gasps and grips one of the standing stones set for defense you turn a concerned gaze upon her only to quickly fade into amusement as she grinds: "Next time fucking ask." In Misty Islands far from here the fog is blown away by craft and much as strength and so it is enchanters flee their sybaritic dream, those that can at least before Those Beyond can move upon them.

    You catch only a glimpse of the Seer before the pool, somehow reading confusion upon a featureless face, before the water of his very instrument rises to drown him to the Merling King's call. Not many of his subjects peril, for they had set their own contingents, but all scatter either into the depths of the Feywild or the world of form.

    Will the curse just pour over them all like a relentless tide? you wonder, amazed at what the fury of the gods have wrought.

    "Not all," Bloodraven responds to your unspoken thought, though he does not sound displeased. The Court of the Green, most skilled in warding, has cured the Serpent's Poison that was meant to end their lord and his most favored servants, and the Azure Basteion endures weathered but unbroken. Though they had expected the blow to resonate from Realms Beyond their wards still served them well.

    The last two factions, now courts in their own rights, fell somewhere between the two extremes. The Indigo Mask is wounded perhaps to death and fled deep into the Feywild to lick his wounds, while the Violet Veil is dead though enough of the tattered mantle remains to pass onto another.

    Immediate Results of Operation Starfall:
    Star Crowned Queen Dead
    Crimson Blade Dead, court all-but wiped out in holy fire
    Orange Haze Dead, court consumed by Deep One attack
    Golden Seer Dead, court shattered by the surprise of the event
    Green Warden Survived, alongside most of court
    Azure Key Survived, alongside most of court
    Indigo Mask Gravely Wounded, fled into the Deep Feywild
    Violet Veil Dead, mantle passed on to surviving noble

    What do you do next?

    [] Send envoys to the two intact courts to see if they are in the mood to surrender

    [] Wipe out the Violet Court while their new leader is still very weakened

    [] Send a team to kill the Indigo Mask

    [] Write in

    OOC: I'm not going to show you guys all the rolls because again spoilers, but there are four I feel I have to just to show up how crazy all this was. The Queen rolled negative numbers after modifiers on two vital rolls here and here. Also the Golden Seer had a re-roll (though he was forced to take the second roll even if lower). The first result was this and the second was... this.
     
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    • DragonParadox said:
    Immediate Results of Operation Starfall:
    Star Crowned Queen Dead
    Crimson Blade Dead, court all-but wiped out in holy fire
    Orange Haze Dead, Court consumed by Deep One attack
    Golden Seer Dead, Court Shattered by the surprise of the event
    Green Warden Survived, alongside most of court
    Azure Key Survived, alongside most of court
    Indigo Mask Gravely wounded, fled into the Deep Feywild
    Violet Veil Dead, mantle passed on to surviving noble
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    Time to burn the rest. Who's first? Green, Azure, or Violet?
     
    Holy Jesus fuck.

    But wow our relationship with Rhlorr sure has changed hasn't it? Wonder what that dude who fueded with us over Vehlen and tried grabbing Dany waaaayy back when would think of things now?
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Starfall ​

    Thirtieth Day of the Third Month 294 AC

    "I heard many of my enemies try to bargain when they realized they had overplayed their hand. You know how I answer such pleas?" Your words are sharp and heavy as the executioner's axe, or so at least you hope. Time seems to stretch out painfully and not of your will as the crown writhes and grasps your wrists, unwilling to be fed into the flames.

    It is not the only thing that can change...

    Wings burst from your back and scales grow upon your flesh, as in a single long breath you take on draconic form and with clawed hands rip the vines away and cast the crown into the flames.

    As soon as blooming vine meets the blaze, a spiral of light bursts forth. At once it is fire holy to R'hllor the Red and a floury of crimson leaves fallen from the tree above. It is serpent's scales coiling through eternity, a current of water through deepest blackest ocean seas. It is all these things and one inescapable reality above all others.

    Death ​

    All that is born must die, all that has a beginning must have an end, even the grandest of tales, the tallest trees and deepest roots. You can feel the Queen still as your chant rises into a crescendo. You know that she is doomed and so does she and in that moment the Star Crowned does something you had not expected, she allows death to take her utterly. Dying in a inferno stoked with the souls of fiends, slowing the curse, the poison upon her court, giving the lords a chance to muster their own defenses and preserve their domains.

    The voice of R'hllor is growing familiar in your ear, telling of the ruin of the Crimson, for they sought to match strength against strength and proved by far the weaker. The ever-tumbling tower tumbles one last time, and from this there shall be no rising. Scattered are the warriors of faerie and you are well content.

    As Tyene gasps and grips one of the standing stones set for defense, you turn a concerned gaze upon her only to quickly fade into amusement as she grins. "Next time fucking ask." In Misty Islands far from here, the fog is blown away by craft as much as strength, and so it is enchanters flee their sybaritic dream, those that can at least before Those Beyond can move upon them.

    You catch only a glimpse of the Seer before the pool, somehow reading confusion upon a featureless face before the water of his very instrument rises to drown him to the Merling King's call. Not many of his subjects perish, for they had set their own contingencies, but all scatter, either into the depths of the Feywild or the world of form.

    Will the curse just pour over them all like a relentless tide? you wonder, amazed at what the fury of the gods have wrought.

    "Not all," Bloodraven responds to your unspoken thought, though he does not sound displeased. The Court of the Green, the most skilled in warding, has cured the Serpent's Poison that was meant to end their lord and his most favored servants, and the Azure Bastion endures weathered but unbroken. Though they had expected the blow to resonate from Realms Beyond, their wards still served them well.

    The last two factions, now courts in their own rights, fell somewhere between the two extremes. The Indigo Mask is wounded, perhaps to death, and fled deep into the Feywyld to lick his wounds, while the Violet Veil is dead, though enough of the tattered mantle remains to pass onto another.

    Immediate Results of Operation Starfall:
    Star Crowned Queen Dead
    Crimson Blade Dead, Court all but wiped out in holy fire
    Orange Haze Dead, Court consumed by Deep One attack
    Golden Seer Dead, Court shattered by the surprise of the event
    Green Warden Survived, alongside most of court
    Azure Key Survived, alongside most of court
    Indigo Mask gravely wounded, fled into the Deep Feywild
    Violet Veil dead, mantle passed on to surviving noble

    What do you do next?

    [] Send envoys to the two intact courts to see if they are in the mood to surrender

    [] Wipe out the Violet court while their new leader it still very weakened

    [] Send a team to kill the Indigo mask

    [] Write in

    OOC: I'm not going to show you guys all the rolls because again spoilers, but there are four I feel I have to just to show up how crazy all this was. The Queen rolled negative numbers after modifiers on two vital rolls here and here. Also the Golden Seer had a re-roll (though he was forced to take the second roll even if lower). The first result was this and the second was... this. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.

    Ah, that was lovely. Cathartic, too. Get fucked, Court of Stars.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    and the second was... this.
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    Oh, my sides.
    Truly ironic to happen to the Seer if all the things.

    Well, this is nice.
    The remaining courts are next to no danger at the moment, and there is a chance we could even string arm the Greens to turn to Old Gods instead.

    We gotta go and try to loot what remains of their King too, tho.
     
    @DragonParadox, can you link us to the chapter where we had compiled all the intel we knew of the various Courts?

    I think a couple of the Courts were more likely to be reasonable if not for being sworn to the greater Court of Stars.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Crimson Blade Dead, court all-but wiped out in holy fire
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    That takes out a lot of the most immediate combat assets. They were also one of the courts that had good odds of being lootable, so a mixed bag all things considered.
    Should send someone there to impress upon the survivors that we are taking surrenders.
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    Orange Haze Dead, Court consumed by Deep One attack
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    Ah... the enchanters... good fucking riddance...

    We should check up on and reinforce our people in the Arbor to repel the Deep Ones.
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    Golden Seer Dead, Court Shattered by the surprise of the event
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    One of the hardest realms to assault, so that they are shattered makes things easier.
    Same as with the Crimson, see about recruiting as many as possible and finishing the rest, if they initiate hostilities.
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    Green Warden Survived, alongside most of court
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    One of the more problematic courts to contain. Definitely should approach them right away, but I'm expecting them to become a problem.
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    Azure Key Survived, alongside most of court
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    Same here pretty much. They are organized, which is in of itself a problem.
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    Indigo Mask Gravely wounded, fled into the Deep Feywild
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    On the one hand, finishing him off would be good, but on the other, we can safely ignore him for a while as he heals.
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    Violet Veil Dead, mantle passed on to surviving noble
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    Definitely needs to be neutralized. Also, I'm betting a sovereign on Dusk Dancer being the new boss of that court.
     
    egoo said:
    Oh, my sides.
    Truly ironic to happen to the Seer if all the things.

    Well, this is nice.
    The remaining courts are next to no danger at the moment, and there is a chance we could even string arm the Greens to turn to Old Gods instead.

    We gotta go and try to loot what remains of their King too, tho.
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    /giggle

    Delicious irony, it tastes like chocolate and the tears of our enemies.
     
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