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

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Goldfish said:
It's the one template that I want to add to Viserys, if we ever progress far enough to be able to do that.
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That's one way to never die from HP damage... I can't even describe how beefy he would be as a Great Wyrm. Probably so resilient that his durability is somewhat conceptual rather than conventional?
 
By the by, can someone throw some detail my way?
This RA, hell, I don't even remember who asked for it now, but it sorely lacks in detail.
egoo said:
[] The Scourge of Minds - over the years you have faced many enemies that were an anathema to a thinking being. Perhaps it is time to turn all of the knowledge you hold to create a new weapon against the enemy that holds their minds sacred above all else.
-[] Using the Int-Draining Shadow captured in the Shadow Tower, the Maelepahant's Breathweapon, the memory-consuming ability of The Many, and the Memory Moss, create a dedicated Int-damaging weapon.
(Progress: 34; Cost: 14, 000 IM)
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If that creature Azel plans proves as stupidly good as it sounds, maybe this one doesn't need to be a template?

Do we want cheap AoE bombs we could load in Wyverns/Launchers and shit all over illithid cities?

Or maybe costly-but-reproduceable bio-artifacts that would do 9th-circle-equivalent Int damage AoE?

Or we can soup-up that Shadow we caught as a base, with all the other stuff we have, and have Yss/MK/OGs/whoever bless it so we get a CR20 minion that'd be Incel singularity in how it damages the Intelligence of all around it.

tldr, I need y'all to decide on what this one is, before i try to push it through.
 
egoo said:
By the by, can someone throw some detail my way?
This RA, hell, I don't even remember who asked for it now, but it sorely lacks in detail.

If that creature Azel plans proves as stupidly good as it sounds, maybe this one doesn't need to be a template?

Do we want cheap AoE bombs we could load in Wyverns/Launchers and shit all over illithid cities?

Or maybe costly-but-reproduceable bio-artifacts that would do 9th-circle-equivalent Int damage AoE?

Or we can soup-up that Shadow we caught as a base, with all the other stuff we have, and have Yss/MK/OGs/whoever bless it so we get a CR20 minion that'd be Incel singularity in how it damages the Intelligence of all around it.

tldr, I need y'all to decide on what this one is, before i try to push it through.
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I think we should just add the Nulmind to the list of effects to be studied for that purpose so that it can be included when we get around to working on that RA.

I don't think we need to narrow it down too much just yet, since the initial RA seems like a foundational step along the path to weaponization. We should try to develop a reproducible effect before we start trying to churn out weapons, which would most likely be part of a follow-up RA.
 
@egoo
Minor idea.
In the update where Lya shows off the Wardbreaking Gem, she mentions this:
DragonParadox said:
He would trust them with this lore. It is, after all, not that far from a gem that can break all protection magics to one that can break all enchantments or curses. He would not wish his slaves to slip their bonds."
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We should consider researching an anti-binding variant on that item.
Ideally we could create something like the Unravelling of the Orphne without the ultra-rare ingredient Fey need for their crafting.
 
Goldfish said:
I think we should just add the Nulmind to the list of effects to be studied for that purpose so that it can be included when we get around to working on that RA.

I don't think we need to narrow it down too much just yet, since the initial RA seems like a foundational step along the path to weaponization. We should try to develop a reproducible effect before we start trying to churn out weapons, which would most likely be part of a follow-up RA.
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Stun grenades that directly shut down your mind would be amazing.
 
Artemis1992 said:
@egoo
Minor idea.
In the update where Lya shows off the Wardbreaking Gem, she mentions this:

We should consider researching an anti-binding variant on that item.
Ideally we could create something like the Unravelling of the Orphne without the ultra-rare ingredient Fey need for their crafting.
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I'll run that by DP, okay, will note ya when/if I get Progress down for that
 
Azel said:
Stun grenades that directly shut down your mind would be amazing.
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The Alchemical Fungal Stun Vials we manufacture are already extremely good at that. I was hoping for something more along the lines of an interdiction field that would inhibit psionics or work like an Intelligence damaging version of Rain of Roses, one we could selectively target so as to not harm our own forces.
 
Slight rephrasing later, I also remembered the Wizard Shackles.
egoo said:
[] The Scourge of Minds - over the years you have faced many enemies that were an anathema to a thinking being. Perhaps it is time to turn all of the knowledge you hold to create a new weapon against the enemy that holds their minds sacred above all else.
-[] Using the:
--[] Int-Draining Shadow captured in the Shadow Tower (Arcane);
--[] The Maelepahant's Breathweapon (Arcane);
--[] The Many's memory-consumung ability (Psionic);
--[] The Nulmind's int-damage/domination aura (Psionic);
--[] The Wizard Shackle's purely chemical brain-disrupting venom that affects the conscious use of magic (and one can assume it can be used to affect other things, like Intelligence or Psionics, too - if properly retrofitted);
--[] The Memory Moss (Alchemical);
--[] Create a dedicated mind-affecting weapon, with potency, difficulty to block, AoE radius, and ability to make more at demand being the prime goals for the initial effect. Method of delivery researched later.
(Progress: 34; Cost: 14,000 IM)
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We have a ridiculous number of ways to drain int or lock spells now.
Some not even magical.
Shit's gonna be downright impossible to defend against if we manage to mix them all together.

@DragonParadox, new Progress numbers?
The last version didn't have Nulmind's Eldritch shite, nor Wizard Shacle's "Wizard's Impotency"-solution.
 
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Part MMMDCLXVIII: Dance in Three Steps
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    • Dance in Three Steps​

    Eight Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    The path back through the Feywild is marked with closing paths and dying light, as though the realm itself can hardly wait to see the back of you. Given the perils you have faced within and those yet unnamed you have managed to avoid you can safely say it is mutual. Vee is grimly peering this way and that along the thorn studded ways, at times hissing out a spell to force a bold tendril of green or flash of eerie light back into the shadows. Of all your company Maelor seems the most happy for the journey.

    "Too damn long since I got into a fight where I didn't have to worry about the guard," he says, looking back at the bodies of the fallen Violet Court guard more with satisfaction than with regret. It pays to keep in mind that for all the discipline the boy has taught himself over these last few years the blood and magic of demons flow through his veins and with it their drive to bring chaos and conflict. It will not be easy finding him a city he will not be bored administering.

    The idle thought almost costs you having your hair set afire by some bluebell flower with a unique means of capturing its meals, if fire you can call it. Onwards and upwards, you tell yourself through gritted teeth, reminded again that some places are not meant to be conquered no matter how satisfying it may seem.

    ***​

    It is a pleasure to see a person who enjoys their work, and though it had taken you awhile to read the subtle color changes and shifts in form that mark Qyburn's good cheer you can now say with some certainty that it is a rare discovery that interests the flesh-smith as much as the nulmind did. Not that he hesitates in saying so aloud.

    "The confluence of arcane power and mental powers would at first seem similar to my own organ-clusters, but even a cursory examination would indicate it uses an entirely different organism, more energy-intensive perhaps, but one can never have too many alternative views, don't you agree Your Grace?" His eyes grow ever greater facets along smaller and smaller fractals as he speaks.

    "Certainly, keep me informed on anything you learn," you reply with a smile. "Oh, and if you have any interest in your newest tenant's former jailers there is a book you could read, though under rather strict environmental conditions I'm afraid."

    Of course Dusk Dancer was not the only prisoner you returned with from the depths of the Feywild and the second proves far more of a cypher than the one whose secrets you can read at the turn of a page.

    Dusk Dancer: Rogue Creature Glasting +2 Trickster path abilities (CR 23; 25HD)

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    You expected rage, you expected fear, you would even have expected bargaining, though you counted it unlikely after the last stand of the Violet Court, what you did not expect was the words that passed the elder fey's lips as soon as he found himself inside the Snare where so many fiends and other foes had been trapped and questioned: "The Herald of the Ferryman trapped me after I sought to snare it and spend her soul in battle against you, thus I would sooner throw myself upon His mercy than yours, Bloodied One."

    The colors of his luminous form shift from the delicate violet of his former court to something approaching the deep blue, almost black of the deep seas.

    Do you agree to the fey mage's deal?

    [] Yes, the Ferryman can get more use out of him willingly than you can get from a prisoner

    [] No, you would rather not leave a resentful mage of his skill alive, even with a god's binding of service

    [] Write in

    OOC: A bit short, but I could not think of any other action that I could fit between this, other than the Indigo Mask hunt and I don't want to roll that so late.
     
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    • [X] "Mercy?"
    -[X] Laugh. You're all out of it, unfortunately.
    --[X] "Maybe you haven't been paying attention."
    ---[X] Interrogate him through the most thorough means possible, up to and including reformatting his memories into an Outsider either through the auspices of the Ferryman or Yss if your own methods do not bear fruit.
    ----[X] You are interested in secrets or lore, both mundane and esoteric, but if you can figure out hind or hair of where the originator of Renly the Changeling went, that would be on your very long list of questions.
     
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    [X] Crake

    We offered surrender. They didn't take. They tried to kill us.
    They tried to soulsteal Aife, in whom we invested. A lot.

    It's interrogation, and then soulkill.
    Fuck 'em, Fey Archmages.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    reminded again that some places are not meant to be conquered no matter how satisfying it may seem
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    Heresy!
    We just need to order all of it first!

    We'll get to it. Eventually.
    Yes, totally.
    *definitely doesn't sweat nervously*
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    Dusk Dancer: Rogue Creature Glasting +2 Trickster path abilities (CR 23; 25HD)
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    For real though, assuming we manage to find a way to stop her dying permanently, she's, like, the best sacrifice we've ever got yet.

    Or, and just bear with me...
    A base to craft something out of.

    ...Like a Fey of Imperial myth.
    Or just a monstrosity that defies all Fey nature, whatever. :V

    I definitely don't want to just keep her a book now.
     
    [X] Crake

    We already called for unconditional surrender, they are reaping the consequences of not accepting. It would be hilarious if we could turn some of the Fay into imperial Fay, following the story of our empire.
     
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    @Duesal @egoo Anything we want to specifically search for?

    At this point I honestly could care less, I would have been happy if they had all died in the initial strike and won't be satisfied until the Indigo Mask meets the same fate as this group of... funny people... did.

    But if we're going to fall into routine, might as well make sure we're not missing out.
     
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