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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 said:
Dance in Three Steps​

Eighth 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 the feeling 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 with 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 the magic of demons flow through his veins and with them their drive to 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 all 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 a while 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 Glaistig +2 Trickster path abilities (CR 23; 25HD)

***​

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 willing 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 this so late. Not yet edited.
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.

Damn, Dusk Dancer was beefier than I expected.
 
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@Crake, tbh, I don't care either.
This guy is just some schmuck, albeit a powerful one.

Get out of him how he managed to cast that shit, have him write down all of the exotic lore he knows (library upgrades, and generally Fey lore we are interested in because of Imperial Deity), and let him rot for all I care.
 
We've already voted to loot all we could, and since DP didn't get us anything more, we can assume that either:
a) nothing more to get, Fey lorde's body isnt there anymore, no arrows, no less to T!Renly
b) wait for next updates to see.

Edit: DP'd on the arrows.
@DragonParadox, any leads on Renly?
 
DragonParadox said:
Almost missed this

The arrows were relics of the dawn age (of the Winter court before they fell actually), no one outside the Farthest North knows how to make them. You guys got 8 of them.
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Whew, damn. @egoo, this needs some RA attention.

Anyone object to trying to figure out how to reproduce these things? Stackable -5 Will save penalty curses delivered by enchanted arrows are amazing.
 
Goldfish said:
Whew, damn. @egoo, this needs some RA attention.

Anyone object to trying to figure out how to reproduce these things? Stackable -5 Will save penalty curses delivered by enchanted arrows are amazing.
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It probably requires some highly questionable methods. As most of these things tend to.

And I don't just mean morally grey, I mean insane.
 
One of the questions is what we could get from the Ferryman.

Another is what horrible fate awaits our friends if this backfires.
 
Crake said:
It probably requires some highly questionable methods. As most of these things tend to.

And I don't just mean morally grey, I mean insane.
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Probably, but it's probably worth discovering, if only to rule out the possibility of creating them ourselves.

They were produced by the Winter Fey prior to becoming Void-tainted, so they might not be too skeezy.
 
Goldfish said:
Anyone object to trying to figure out how to reproduce these things?
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I kinda do.

This stuff is too cheese, for one.

It should not be reasonably possible for us to, either, if Fey Courts don't know how to.
Our knowledge of Fey, Winter, and Winter Fey is significantly smaller than their is... was...

Finally, we have frankly too many projects Rina alone could do, and this one would definitely be such.
 
Crake said:
[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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Shouldn't we make sure the 'Ferryman' isn't going to get seriously pissed for blowing this off?
 
Guys seriously reformating peoples personality is blatantly evil. Just let the fae die. They haven't done all that much to us. The anger against them is seriously overblown and is honestly getting disturbing.
 
lancelot said:
Shouldn't we make sure the 'Ferryman' isn't going to get seriously pissed for blowing this off?
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Aife serves us on the same agreement as Nirah, if Aife grabbed him while on her mission the last month - we wouldn't have shouldered in, but here this guy is our loot/responsibility entirely.
Acolyte said:
Guys seriously reformating peoples personality is blatantly evil. Just let the fae die. They haven't done all that much to us. The anger against them is seriously overblown and is honestly getting disturbing.
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It's less "Hurr Durr, let's torture Fey because we can" tbh, and more of a "oh wow, this lil' bitch was really strong. Can we use her while she's still alive, then, and maybe get a really strong minion?" to me. :/
Not that different from what we did to Tor, ey?
 
egoo said:
It's less "Hurr Durr, let's torture Fey because we can" tbh, and more of a "oh wow, this lil' bitch was really strong. Can we use her while she's still alive, then, and maybe get a really strong minion?" to me. :/
Not that different from what we did to Tor, ey?
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Could we just not let it die. There is a reason surrender and captured enemies are treated well. If we just torture or mind rape them into submission the next semi rational enemy will fight use to the death
Like any ifritt for example or any devils.
Just let it go we are not machine and it is good to show mercy.
 
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