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

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Azel said:
@Goldfish, maybe add explicitly that the Myrkdreki have to hit her first.

The only way for her to avoid the effects of a Thanatopic Enervation is counterspelling or special defenses like a Ring of Spellbattle. If she has to blow that on the Enervations, our Scribes Binding can pass uncontested, while if she saves special abilities against the Binding, then she still eats an average of 5 negative levels and is definitely toast next round.
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Updated the plan to have the Myrkdreki use Metamagic Gems to cast their first Thanotopic Enervation spells as Swift Actions and to have Viserys wait for them, if possible. Also have them casting another round of them if necessary, because overkill is underrated.

EDIT: BTW, this fight will have used three Quicken Gems and two Maximize Gems after this coming round. Not a bad investment, IMO.
 
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Metamagic gems are pretty bullshit.

Now everyone is throwing around metamagic these days.

Casting from HP is so yesterday.

Now we casting from GP.
 
Crake said:
Metamagic gems are pretty bullshit.

Now everyone is throwing around metamagic these days.

Casting from HP is so yesterday.

Now we casting from GP.
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They are nice to have, but fairly expensive for single use items, even for us. This is only the second fight I can recall using them.
 
Goldfish said:
Updated the plan to have the Myrkdreki use Metamagic Gems to cast their first Thanotopic Enervation spells as Swift Actions and to have Viserys wait for them, if possible. Also have them casting another round of them if necessary, because overkill is underrated.

EDIT: BTW, this fight will have used three Quicken Gems and two Maximize Gems after this coming round. Not a bad investment, IMO.
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Dusk Dancer: "If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me!"
Viserys: "Use moneymancy!"
Myrkdreki: *throwing 4d4 negative levels at her*
Dusk Dancer:
 
OK, vote closed, let's see how this goes.
Adhoc vote count started by Duesal on Dec 3, 2020 at 3:15 PM, finished with 67 posts and 20 votes.
  • [X] Plan Setting Sun
    -[X] Viserys casts Assay Spell Resistance, then targets Dusk Dancer with a Scribe's Binding spell using Wild Arcana, preferably waiting until after the Myrkdreki cast their first round of Thanotopic Enervation spells. If necessary, he uses Amazing Initiative to gain an action to activate his Belt of Battle to cast another Scribe's Binding spell or to respond to unexpected events. He uses his Battlemagic Perception buff to Counterspell as a Free Action, if necessary.
    -[X] Maelor targets Dusk Dancer's position with his Chilling Tentacles Invocation, then uses a Metamagic Gem to cast a Quickened Flashburst to Blind any remaining Fey.
    -[X] Vee readies an action to Counterspell using Greater Dispel Magic, her Ring of Spell-Battle, and her Battlemagic Perception buff to Counterspell as a Free Action.
    -[X] Zherys uses Greater Arcane Fusion as a Swift Action to simultaneously cast a True Strike and Disintegrate spell targeting the caster of the Twinned Weird spell, if he can discern their location, repeating this once more of necessary. If not, he instead readies an action to Counterspell using Greater Dispel Magic and his Ring of Spell-Battle.
    -[X] Aife uses a Reached Chained Sacramental Seal spell to simultaneously target as many Fey as she can reach, especially the mage casting Weird spells if she can locate them or Dusk Dancer if she escapes Viserys' spells.
    -[X] Amrelath casts Blood Wind to target nearby Fey with his many melee attacks, focusing on either interrupting Dusk Dancer if she avoids Viserys' spells, the mage casting Weird spells if located, or any other enemies he deems worthy of his attention.
    -[X] Each Mrykdreki uses a Metamagic Gem to cast a Quickened Thanatopic Enervation spells to target Dusk Dancer as a Swift Action, bypassing protections from Energy Drain effects, such as Death Ward. They target her with another round of Thanotolic Enervation spells if necessary, or use Wings of Cover if not and nearby allies are threatened.
    -[X] Each Mind Dragon uses Junglerazer spells to target remaining Fey, especially the Weird casting mage if they can locate them. They use Wings of Cover as necessary, or use their Circlets to cast another Junglerazer spell as a Swift Action if not.
    -[X] Mereth, her fellow Erinyes not yet affected by Dusk Dancer, and the Hunter Bio-Constructs seek out the Weird casting mage, while Richard continues to protect Viserys.
    [X] Focus on Dusk Dancer
    -[x] To capture
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They still have to hit with Enervation.
Dusky here has a good miss-chance for everything and though I don't know her touch-AC I would bad it's not bad either.
Same for Scribe's Binding, needs a touch.
 
Artemis1992 said:
They still have to hit with Enervation.
Dusky here has a good miss-chance for everything and though I don't know her touch-AC I would bad it's not bad either.
Same for Scribe's Binding, needs a touch.
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The benefit of five high HD Dragons taking shots at her with Ranged Touch Attack spells, they all have a high BAB, further modified by buffs of various sorts.
 
Fey gotta have a native malus to any rolls against getting bookified, though.

They are just stories, after all :V
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Duesal on Dec 3, 2020 at 3:15 PM, finished with 67 posts and 20 votes.
  • [X] Plan Setting Sun
    -[X] Viserys casts Assay Spell Resistance, then targets Dusk Dancer with a Scribe's Binding spell using Wild Arcana, preferably waiting until after the Myrkdreki cast their first round of Thanotopic Enervation spells. If necessary, he uses Amazing Initiative to gain an action to activate his Belt of Battle to cast another Scribe's Binding spell or to respond to unexpected events. He uses his Battlemagic Perception buff to Counterspell as a Free Action, if necessary.
    -[X] Maelor targets Dusk Dancer's position with his Chilling Tentacles Invocation, then uses a Metamagic Gem to cast a Quickened Flashburst to Blind any remaining Fey.
    -[X] Vee readies an action to Counterspell using Greater Dispel Magic, her Ring of Spell-Battle, and her Battlemagic Perception buff to Counterspell as a Free Action.
    -[X] Zherys uses Greater Arcane Fusion as a Swift Action to simultaneously cast a True Strike and Disintegrate spell targeting the caster of the Twinned Weird spell, if he can discern their location, repeating this once more of necessary. If not, he instead readies an action to Counterspell using Greater Dispel Magic and his Ring of Spell-Battle.
    -[X] Aife uses a Reached Chained Sacramental Seal spell to simultaneously target as many Fey as she can reach, especially the mage casting Weird spells if she can locate them or Dusk Dancer if she escapes Viserys' spells.
    -[X] Amrelath casts Blood Wind to target nearby Fey with his many melee attacks, focusing on either interrupting Dusk Dancer if she avoids Viserys' spells, the mage casting Weird spells if located, or any other enemies he deems worthy of his attention.
    -[X] Each Mrykdreki uses a Metamagic Gem to cast a Quickened Thanatopic Enervation spells to target Dusk Dancer as a Swift Action, bypassing protections from Energy Drain effects, such as Death Ward. They target her with another round of Thanotolic Enervation spells if necessary, or use Wings of Cover if not and nearby allies are threatened.
    -[X] Each Mind Dragon uses Junglerazer spells to target remaining Fey, especially the Weird casting mage if they can locate them. They use Wings of Cover as necessary, or use their Circlets to cast another Junglerazer spell as a Swift Action if not.
    -[X] Mereth, her fellow Erinyes not yet affected by Dusk Dancer, and the Hunter Bio-Constructs seek out the Weird casting mage, while Richard continues to protect Viserys.
    [X] Focus on Dusk Dancer
    -[x] To capture
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Part MMMDCLXVI: Between Covers
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    • Between Covers​

    Second Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    If you had come alone or only besides your closest companions this would have been a different battle, the arrows, the weighing of moments, the death song. You did not come alone. The pair of myrkdreki breathe at once, and they exhale not deadly fumes but sorcery more terrible still, a cruse to sap the will and cloud the mind, empowered by the bound enchantments of the djinn to pass through any ward. A mortal champion or sorcerer might have perished then, fallen to dust and ashes, but Dusk Dancer in the hour of her death merely buckles under the weight of malignancy,

    Close by Zherys and Vee are dueling a luminous figure that seems more woven glamor than fey flesh, spells of dissolution failing by the merest edge against the short sharp syllables of the girl's magic, while the elder mage flings a ray of poisonous green light from his bejeweled hand yet in a flash of dizzying color and maddening sound that covers even Dusk Dancer's dirge he is elsewhere and readying a spell. Zherys can still see him, the second spell strikes true only to fail against some last unseen contingency. Aife strikes the final blow, fittingly perhaps in the name of her god, the one almost bound to the binding of the mage in turn, in the reflection of a single shed scale.

    All this you see in an instant as you circle the field. You meet Dusk Dancer's gaze one final time as Amrelath and the erinyes still in control of their bodies strike down the fey all around her. Her words come back to you as you speak the final enchantment: 'to fit all our tales between those narrow covers.'

    Perhaps it is simple practicality that binds your hand, or perhaps this place that exists beyond all fey lords however mighty whispers in your ear an irony sharper than steel. Among the blood and bodies a book falls bound in violet silk... the death song does not stop, the magic does not fade even as tentacles of shadow and frost called forth by Maelor's magic tentatively pick it up.

    Shit... You want that lore, not just of magic, not just of history, but the intrigues and secrets of the other lords, how much you might learn from that single tome. Left with no other options you part the threads of magic around your new prisoner. The song stoops, but you can still feel its echoes in the air, delayed not prevented. Once the fey lady had chosen her own death it seems your curses are not enough to stop her.

    "All clear?" you call to the others, relieved to find that no one had been killed or even wounded, for all you had come uncomfortably close. "Any ideas on what to do with this?"

    It does not take Zherys more than a moment to realize what you mean. "I had meant to create a dead magic chamber for the Mysterium to work with, but it gave way to more urgent projects. Perhaps the djinn or the shaitan might be inclined to aid us until such can be set up elsewhere, they will likely wish access to it though."

    What do you do about the dying fey book?

    [] Write in

    OOC: That was way too many rolls for such a short update, but I did not want this to drag while I described the attack roll of each erinyes and hunter servitor.
     
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    • [X] Permanence an Energy Transformation Field in Lya's personal laboratory (because best wards we have available, ever) via Diamond Dust, have the book's dying stymied by it.
    -[X] Throughout this month, have a Lya (whichever's free) read through and transcribe it in the free time available from the experiments and research.
    -[X] Obviously have some magic-sensitive assistants keep a constant eye on the book, ensuring it doesn't somehow adapt or something.

    And after we are done with it, to Yss it goes.
    :V

    @DragonParadox, whom we have got aside from Dusk Duster?
    I am sleepy and chapter is wordy.
     
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