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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:
While the tale of the Slumbering King and his crown is well known in Sorcerer's Deep the Sage has been far less often mentioned, partly because it is not his place to lead only to advise and even there his wisdom is oft veiled behind the council of lesser lords. It is widely assumed that the Golden Seer and the Violet Mask often act at the Hidden King's behest.
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The Sage might have been the one who started the 'Renly becoming King' plan.
 
So, considering how these two surviving courts went, I find it unlikely that the remnants of the Golden court will seek us out.

A pity, because I wanted to recruit them.
 
egoo said:
@Azel

4x Black Champion -- 5360*4= 21.440 IM
1x Greater Blood Clot Mold -- 28.800 IM
19x Necrotic Molds -- 450*19 = 8,550 IM
44x Black Wardens -- 630*44 = 27,720 IM
39x Black Knights -- 490*39 = 19.110 IM
91x Spitter Swarms -- 60*91 = 5,460 IM
3x Vigilant Briars -- 660*3 = 1,980 IM

Total losses: 113.060 IM
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A small price to pay for wiping out some fey.
 
Warrior: Presumably the current lord of the Wild Hunt.

Slumbering King: Comotose body currently planned to be turned into an Old Gods modified Green Seer.

Sage: IDK, TBH, they were apparently separate from the Queen of the Court of Stars, so who can say what happened to them? DP was veeery very cagey about them.
 
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silvanknight said:
The Court originally had 3 kings. The Warrior is missing but still alive (the Court would have felt his death), the Lord is the Slumbering King who's crown got destroyed, and the Sage is missing but alive I presume.
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Crake said:
Warrior: Presumably the current lord of the Wild Hunt.

Slumbering King: Comotose body currently planned to be turned into an Old Gods modified Green Seer.

Sage: IDK, TBH, they were apparently separate from the Queen of the Court of Stars, so who can say what happened to them? DP was veeery very cagey about them.
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egoo said:
Might be the Winter's counterpart to Bloodraven, then/
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@DragonParadox, shouldn't our Fey books just know this outright? Who and where is the sage?
 
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Interlude CMLXIII: Taller Tales
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    • Taller Tales ​

    Tenth Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    Tyene Sandviper was not certain how it came to be that she was the one to escort the countless bags of corpses for delivery to Gogossos. It was likely as simple as her being the one with the spell for the job not tangled up in any other journey. 'All' she had to do was wrap her mind around a principle of sorcery that had so alluded everyone from Ny Sar to Old Valyria that only the Sarnori mage smiths had bothered to teach along a chain of masters and apprentices... easy.

    Fuck, the headache was back, she cursed inwardly, pushing the tome aside. Maybe going to Sothoryos to watch Qyburn drool over the corpses wouldn't be the worst use of her day. Did Qyburn even drool these days? She cut the thought off and carefully excised it from her mind. The last thing she would want to find out was the details of the flesh-smith's secretions and she would not put it past the bastard to be able to read her mind somehow. He did good work, fortunately very far away.

    Sand Viper's Reach Progress 6/8

    Fortunately the servitors would handle the bags full of flesh and boxes filled with what looked like splintered wood and even the bloody chest lashed with steel chests 'just in case' that was supposed to hold the Indigo Mask's mount. The trip was almost worth it when the young sorcerer who was playing liaison to the Wild Hunt, now that the dragon of Tolos had gone back to his roost, asked, "In case of what?"

    "Spontaneous necromantic animation," Tyene answered blandly. "Never assume something is dead just because it stopped moving and started reeking."

    "It's being preserved by the chest, there's no reason for it to smell badly," he spoke up hesitantly, not wanting to contradict a Companion.

    "It's also being preserved by being a thing of the Deep North, which should be the greater concern to all of us," she snorted. "Not sure why old Relath felt the need to freeze it extra."

    "Uh..." the mage was looking around as though expecting to find the answer engraved on the walls of the Special Material Holding Area. Alas for him the only thing there were warding glyphs against divination. "Well, they say dragons are most careful of treasure. Perhaps that applies to... er, wolf corpses." The smile looked so watery Tyene was afraid it might drip off, but it had been a jest.

    "If you think this is the strangest treasure I ever escorted for a dragon than you haven't been in this city long...."

    They were already in the sweltering heat of Gogossos for half an hour before the mage worked up the courage to ask. "What was the strangest thing you escorted, that you can speak of freely that is?" he added quickly. One did not become a sorcerer without a certain intrinsic curiosity, but at the same time one did not gain the trust of a dragon without learning discretion.

    "The Golden Hearth," Tyene replied simply.

    "I know there are plenty of rumors swirling about that place about everything under the sun, but I'm..." he caught her eye. "You mean that story's true? The king stole the whole inn?"

    "Yep, it even involved fey too..." she glanced down at the corpses. "Livelier ones than these. It played on small part in how we allied with the Wild Hunt eventually."

    The Tolosi mage looked like he wasn't sure if he believed her, or if he could afford not to.

    What next?

    [] Write in

    OOC: So yeah Tyene managed to roll a 6 on 4d6. It's a good thing that roll wasn't on anything that could crit fail.
     
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    • Tyene is such a troll, I love it.

    @DragonParadox, you got her name wrong in the first sentence though!

    Azel said:
    That they didn't try to mess with our undead is a good sign. If it was easy to subvert them, they would have sent someone to do so. While this doesn't rule out high-level assets being able to mess with our meat bits, it does imply the low-level one can't.
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    Or maybe they don't want to reveal the capability in what's really just a minor skirmish? Much better to whip that out in a big battle!

    @Goldfish, I like the idea of making fewer Heralds and more Umbral Spies. This is not only because Umbral Spies are great - it's also because we have a crazy number of Heralds now, which makes them feel a lot less special. It also overworks our poor Valyrian Steel smiths!
     
    Crake said:
    Goood luuuuck, AFIAK the Gods who nuked the Star Court should have had a direct fucking LINK to the Sage, and they didn't mention him.

    Thus, he cut off his connection. We know this for fact.

    So we have no clue, probably.
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    I don't mind not knowing where he is, but as high ranking members of the Court of our two prisoners know then we should know. Unless for whatever reason they expunged that info from their minds.
     
    Well, now that the main action for the month is done, it is time for ṭ̨͈̭̻̦ͅh̲̬̱̯̮e͈̱̼͚̼̘ ͉r̗ͅe͈͍͇̘̖͈p̗o̸͙̟̫̺̣̫r̶̤͚̗͈t̘͕͇̯͓ͅͅs͓̕ again...

    [X] Adventure/Combat Reports:
    -[X] Sarnori Pacification -- Continuation: The Void-touched Olethrodaemon that regulated much of the proceedings among the Undead of Sarnor may be gone now, but too much of its accursed legacy still lies in that land. Have your agents scour the lands, working with agents of the allied Sarnori Kingdoms, to end the Mindless Undead still in the area, and to, perhaps, seek out any Sentient Undead who hide still in the wake of the sound defeat of the corrupt hosts but two months ago.
    ----[X] Nettles & Sheepstealer (Level 12); 1x Adult Mind Dragon (CR 15), 1x Very Old Myrkdreki Dragon (CR 15), 11x Veteran Erynies, 11x Lejnths, 5x Verdant Phoenixes (CR 15), 50x Verdant Kingfishers, 10x Verdant Ravens (CR 6), 2x Wild Hunt Archers (CR 14), 2x Wild Hunt Scouts (CR 16), 8x Praetori Squads (Total of 72 Praetori and 8 Light Warstriders deployed.)

    -[X] Operation Pest Control MK II: Send forces to the apparently shut entrance to the Underdark you found in Sothoryos. Have them scout the tunnel system, confirm that it is sealed, try to eliminate all pests within and finally retrieve the bodies of the slain mages for a Chain Resurrection. The expedition will be equipped with a set of Titan's Tools which they can use to more thoroughly seal any passages they locate, or for any other uses which may present themselves, along with a Wayfinder for navigation and investigation.
    ----[X] 1x Adult Mind Dragons (CR 15), 5x Necro Kraken with Greater Bloodclot Molds, 50x Black Knight with Mobility Upgrade, 200x Spitters, 1x Herald (CR 10) w/3x Elemental Wyrmlings (Fire) for support, 5x Guardian Nagas (CR 10), 4x Plant-Imbued Shadow Creature Cat (w/+4 Racial HD) (CR 6, 6 HD), 4x Mushroom Golems (CR 10), 5x Advanced Sorcerer Creature Snapdragon Leshy, 20x Watchmoles (CR 6), 20x Praetori Squad (180 Praetori total)

    -[X] Quizzing the Quickling: The Quickling ganglord that escaped the Misfits in King's Landing is but the final tale to tie now, with some support from your other Minions, now.
    ----[X] the Misfits, Darkstar, Kennos, Thoros, Mors, Bonifer, Velen

    -[X] The Hill Fey Chose to Die On: The location of the former main stronghold of the COurt of Stars is of interest to you as a future outpost into the Feywild. Protecting it from an opportunistic takeover by any locals is but good sense now.
    ----[X] 1x Wild Hunt Scout (CR 16), 2x Wild Hunt Archers (CR 14), 5x Heralds (CR 10), 10x Watchmoles (CR 6), 7x Vigilant Briars (CR 4), 100x Verdant Kingfishers, 10x Verdant Ravens, 50x Plant-Imbued Shadow Creature Cat (CR 6) 1x Verdant Phoenix (CR 15), 5x Advanced Sorcerer Creature Snapdragon Leshy (CR 10), 5x Guardian Nagas (CR 10), 10x Black Champions (CR 15), 200x Black Knights (Mobility Upgrade), 500x Spitter Swarms (buried around the location), 5x Praetori Squads (Total of 45 Praetori deployed).

    -[X] Scouting the Neck: Send some people to investigate the situation in the Neck, which Fey there are and how they are aligned in the wider Fey politics. Take special note of any information relevant to the movement of large armies, such as a potential host from the North trying to march through the Neck to the Riverlands.
    (Progress: 7/18)
    ----[X] Valaena Velaryon (Level 9 Magus), Soft Strider (Level 7), Jeyne Weaver (Level 6), Ser Roger 'Reyne' (Level 5), 1x Herald, 1x Verdant Phoenix (CR 15), 3x Vigilant Briars (CR 4), 3x Verdant Ravens (CR 6), 2x Praetori Squads (Total of 16 Praetori and 2 Light Warstriders deployed.)


    @DragonParadox, feel free to date the reports as coming the last days of the month.
    Would be easier on my SoD if nothing else.
     
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    Taller Tales ​

    Tenth Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    Tyene Sandviper was not certain how it came to be that she was the one to escort the countless bags of corpses for delivery to Gogossos. It was likely as simple as her being the one with the spell for the job not tangled up in any other journey. 'All' she had to do was wrap her mind around a principle of sorcery that had so alluded everyone from Ny Sar to Old Valyria that only the Sarnori mage-smiths had bothered to teach it along the chain of master and apprentice... easy.

    Fuck it, the headache was back, she cursed inwardly, pushing the tome aside. Maybe going to Sothoryos to watch Qyburn drool over the corpses wouldn't be the worst use of her day. Did Qyburn even drool these days? She cut the thought off and carefully excised it from her mind. The last thing she would want to find out was the details of the flesh-smith's secretions and she would not put it past the bastard to be able to read her mind somehow. He did good work, fortunately far far away.

    Sand Viper's Reach Progress 6/8

    Fortunately, the servitors would handle the bags full of flesh and boxes filled with what looked like splintered wood, and even the bloody chest lashed with steel chains, 'just in case', that was supposed to hold the Indigo Mask's mount. The trip was almost worth it when the young sorcerer who was playing liaison to the Wild Hunt now that the dragon of Tolos had gone back to his roost asked, "In case of what?"

    "Spontaneous necromantic animation," Tyene had answered blandly. "Never assume something is dead just because it stopped moving and started reeking."

    "It's being preserved by the chest, there's no reason for it to smell badly," he answered hesitantly, not wanting to contradict a Companion.

    "It's also being preserved by being a thing of the deep north, the which should be the greater concern to all of us," she snorted. "Not sure why old Relath felt the need to freeze it extra."

    "Uh..." the mage was looking around as though expecting to find the answer engraved on the walls of the Special Material Holding Area. Alas for him the only thing there were warding glyphs against divination. "Well, they say dragons are most careful of treasure. Perhaps that applies to... er, wolf corpses." The smile looked so watery Tyene was afraid it might drip off, but it had been a jest.

    "If you think this is the strangest treasure I ever escorted for a dragon, then you haven't been in this city long...."

    They were already in the sweltering heat of Gogossos for half and hour before the mage worked up the courage to ask. "What was the strangest thing you escorted, that you can speak of freely that is?" he added quickly. One did not become a sorcerer without a certain intrinsic curiosity, but at the same time one did not gain the trust of a dragon without learning discretion.

    "The Golden Hearth," Tyene replied simply.

    "I know there are plenty of rumors swirling about that place about everything under the sun but I'm..." he caught her eye. "You mean that story's true? The king stole the whole inn?"

    "Yep, it even involved fey, too..." she glanced down at the corpses. "Livelier ones than these. It played one small part in how we allied with the Wild Hunt eventually."

    The Tolosi mage looked like he wasn't sure if he believed her, or if he could afford not to.

    What next?

    [] Write in

    OOC: So yeah Tyene managed to roll a 6 on 4d6. It's a good thing that roll wasn't on anything that could crit fail. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.

    Damn, I thought for sure Tyene would nail that RA this month. Oh well, them's the dice.
     
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