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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:
I would be more comfortable introducing something like this if I wasn't about to use and entirely new system to laying thoughts down. I have no idea how well this will work, if it will work or if we are looking at one month's hiatus and more.
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...Was this dictated or are you being an idjit, DP?


*intensifies the bullying*
 
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Damn, that sounds worse than anything I have at least so far. I hope your treatments work out.
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Highschool football injury so it's something I've been dealing with for 20-odd years now unfortunately. It gets better and worse and as I guess you're discovering this is the time of the year it gets worse. Take care bud. Heat works better for me than cold but again your mileage may vary.
 
Just came back from the first session of physical therapy. It's not a miracle or anything but a bit better that it was which honestly is more than I was expecting after just the one session. I'll be getting the microphone and trying to dictate through an update at some point today.

Stand by for testing.
 
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Well I've got the microphone. Hope this works. Brought to you by windows text to speech for now. I'll probably try something else later.

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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Dec 30, 2020 at 5:02 AM, finished with 197 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] Into the Depths of Time
    -[X] One of the Myrkdreki Twins leads the way, ready to use Wings of Cover at a moment's notice or assume Gaseous Form as needed, while Lya makes certain to have a Brilliant Barrier charm ready to use in an emergency.
    -[X] Qyburn maintains his current combat loadout.
    -[X] As part of long term protection, the following spells are kept active on everyone during the descent:
    --[X] Lya: Life Bubble (taking turns with Aife)
    --[X] Aife: Life Bubble (taking turns with Lya), Reached and Chained Mind Blank, Reached and Chained Nine Lives. The Mind Blank and Nine Lives spells are cast in conjunction with Lya maintaining a Harmonic Chorus spell on Aife, along with separate instances of canceled Moment of Greatness spells in order to raise each spell to 26th caster level.
    -[X] In addition to their normal buffs, before combat the group uses the following spells, prioritizing those with the shortest durations for last and those which seem most useful to the situation, if possible:
    --[X] Viserys: Battlemagic Perception, Greater Blink, Freedom of Movement (himself, plus the Twins), Scintillating Scales, Mirror Image, Ironskin, Starmantle, See Invisibility, Moment of Greatness, and activates his Crystal Rod of Reddopsi. If possible, immediately before combat he casts Searing Agonizing Mass Fire Shield on everyone.
    --[X] Lya: Battlemagic Perception, Greater Blink, Freedom of Movement, Barkskin (herself, Richard, and Qyburn), Mirror Image, Mass Resist Energy (Cold, Electricity, Fire, Sonic), True Seeing (herself and Viserys), See Invisibility, Starmantle, Control Winds, Heightened Awareness, Bless, Wind Walk (via scrolls). If possible, immediately before combat she casts Aura of Vitality on everyone.
    --[X] Aife: Battlemagic Perception, Ironskin, Sign, Entropic Shield, Freedom of Movement, Mass Shield of Faith, Mass Resist Energy (Acid), Mass Conviction, Mass Spell Resistance, True Seeing, Righteous Wrath of the Faithful, Recitation, Dawn Shroud, Caustic Blood, Repulsion.
    --[X] Qyburn: Freedom of Movement, Heart of Water, Heart of Earth, Heightened Awareness, Mirror Image, Touchsight (using 13 PP for 100ft radius), Pierce the Veils
    --[X] Myrkdreki Twins: Battlemagic Perception (using Viserys' PoSK), Heart of Air & Heart of Water (using Viserys' PoSK), See Invisibility (using VIserys' PoSK), False Life (using Viserys' PoSK), Ancestral Awakening (to learn Dispel Magic and Invoke the Cerulean Sign), Scintillating Scales. If possible, immediately before combat they use Viserys' PoSK to cast Call the Void.
    [X] Ser Kennos of Kayce Level Up
    -[X] Class: +1 Fist of R'hllor
    -[X] Skills (4 points): +1 Diplomacy, +1 Heal, +1 Knowledge (Religion), +1 Sense Motive
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Mhmh.
As a someone started rating my comments from years ago now, some stuff from page 6k got me thinking.

Are we still planning on building a giant lighthouse in SD?

IIRC, the two camps were to make it either
A) an overbuilt ego-trip in shape of a Red Dragon (potentially awakenable as a Mythic Coloss when Imperial Deity is done, if SD needs defense)
or
B) an overbuilt steam cannon-placement/naval fortress with boilers and weapon placements running all throughout.
 
egoo said:
Mhmh.
As a someone started rating my comments from years ago now, some stuff from page 6k got me thinking.

Are we still planning on building a giant lighthouse in SD?

IIRC, the two camps were to make it either
A) an overbuilt ego-trip in shape of a Red Dragon (potentially awakenable as a Mythic Coloss when Imperial Deity is done, if SD needs defense)
or
B) an overbuilt steam cannon-placement/naval fortress with boilers and weapon placements running all throughout.
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My current plan is to throw some research at the FLAK-Towers next month so that we can start building those. We can just add some fire to the top to make it double as a lighthouse (presuming it's on the right location to serve as such).

They are also assumed to be heavily decorated ego-trips on the outside, blending good old Neo-Valyrian style with some utilitarian Brutalism at it's core.
 
Talking about old posts, when was the idea that magically boosted Diplo causes negative side effects given up?

Originally using AoN and VotD together caused unintended mindfuck.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Dec 30, 2020 at 5:02 AM, finished with 197 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] Into the Depths of Time
    -[X] One of the Myrkdreki Twins leads the way, ready to use Wings of Cover at a moment's notice or assume Gaseous Form as needed, while Lya makes certain to have a Brilliant Barrier charm ready to use in an emergency.
    -[X] Qyburn maintains his current combat loadout.
    -[X] As part of long term protection, the following spells are kept active on everyone during the descent:
    --[X] Lya: Life Bubble (taking turns with Aife)
    --[X] Aife: Life Bubble (taking turns with Lya), Reached and Chained Mind Blank, Reached and Chained Nine Lives. The Mind Blank and Nine Lives spells are cast in conjunction with Lya maintaining a Harmonic Chorus spell on Aife, along with separate instances of canceled Moment of Greatness spells in order to raise each spell to 26th caster level.
    -[X] In addition to their normal buffs, before combat the group uses the following spells, prioritizing those with the shortest durations for last and those which seem most useful to the situation, if possible:
    --[X] Viserys: Battlemagic Perception, Greater Blink, Freedom of Movement (himself, plus the Twins), Scintillating Scales, Mirror Image, Ironskin, Starmantle, See Invisibility, Moment of Greatness, and activates his Crystal Rod of Reddopsi. If possible, immediately before combat he casts Searing Agonizing Mass Fire Shield on everyone.
    --[X] Lya: Battlemagic Perception, Greater Blink, Freedom of Movement, Barkskin (herself, Richard, and Qyburn), Mirror Image, Mass Resist Energy (Cold, Electricity, Fire, Sonic), True Seeing (herself and Viserys), See Invisibility, Starmantle, Control Winds, Heightened Awareness, Bless, Wind Walk (via scrolls). If possible, immediately before combat she casts Aura of Vitality on everyone.
    --[X] Aife: Battlemagic Perception, Ironskin, Sign, Entropic Shield, Freedom of Movement, Mass Shield of Faith, Mass Resist Energy (Acid), Mass Conviction, Mass Spell Resistance, True Seeing, Righteous Wrath of the Faithful, Recitation, Dawn Shroud, Caustic Blood, Repulsion.
    --[X] Qyburn: Freedom of Movement, Heart of Water, Heart of Earth, Heightened Awareness, Mirror Image, Touchsight (using 13 PP for 100ft radius), Pierce the Veils
    --[X] Myrkdreki Twins: Battlemagic Perception (using Viserys' PoSK), Heart of Air & Heart of Water (using Viserys' PoSK), See Invisibility (using VIserys' PoSK), False Life (using Viserys' PoSK), Ancestral Awakening (to learn Dispel Magic and Invoke the Cerulean Sign), Scintillating Scales. If possible, immediately before combat they use Viserys' PoSK to cast Call the Void.
    [X] Ser Kennos of Kayce Level Up
    -[X] Class: +1 Fist of R'hllor
    -[X] Skills (4 points): +1 Diplomacy, +1 Heal, +1 Knowledge (Religion), +1 Sense Motive
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Part MMMDCLXXXXVII: Primeval Perils
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    • Primeval Perils ​

    Twentieth Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    The scales shone like shards of moonlight in water, the runes upon them as though from some unknown time, as new as springtime, as old as the world. Down, down and down you went into the cold dark, through more than space, through more than time into a place unnamed, unnameable in truth. The stone changed not into the blackness of bilestone that you might have expected, instead the stone was natural, but shattered as though by some great calamity, as though by the doom to come.

    When the path opened into empty air it was shocking and as if something had come up on you. But there was nothing, only the only the faintest hiss of alien air.

    "It's poison," Lya says as she slips out through the stone in the wake of the myrkdreki scout. "Also flammable," she added wryly. "Sort of like if you added swamp gas, ammonia and water together."

    Qyburn's head came up with an odd squelching sound, boneless yet precise. "That's not so uncommon a material as you might imagine. He whose thoughts I took into myself was not a Remembered, not in the memory of their brood, but he knew some small measure of those secrets. Such air was the world's first breath."

    The revelation resonated with something within you, some dragon dream deeper than any you have yet borne witness to. Yet the part of you that was a child of this earth, of this time, rebels at the notion that all the world arose from such a poisoned nursery. No, there's something deeper than rejection there, than disbelief. Fear.

    No sooner had the thought passed your mind than something begins to shake and quiver in the dark, oily flesh that bubbles like tar, that spews and divides into pseudopods, some thin the width of a single hair, others as thick as tree trunks and eyes everywhere eyes, bright as lightning up in poisoned skies. Not one but many, not only below but above.


    In that moment of horrified realization you count not one but seven of the things, four twisting and turning in pools of stone and three crashing down like putrid rain from above. They had hidden well, this trap older than all the mortal kindreds of the world, enough so that even Qyburn's truesight had not caught it much less yours, and about to smash down on Lya, Qyburn and Aife. Why then had they revealed themselves now? You still have time to stop them, if only stolen time.

    "Ware, Your Grace," Qyburn's mindvoice echoes within. "To twist time in this place is to be twisted in turn."

    A trap within a trap then, no less than you might have expected, yet still the way the peril comes up on you like a wave upon the sea and ethereal spell wings shall not ward it off. Mad whispers fill the basalt chamber, shattering into terrible laughter off its jagged edges. These are not the worst of your foes, of that you are certain, merely a welcoming gift for any mortals who stray this deep into the realm of the Deep Ones.

    What do you do?

    [] Write in battle plan (Shoggoths have a surprise round but no one on your side is flat footed; you can use immediate actions; no further meddling with time unless you want to find out what Qyburn meant the hard way)

    OOC: This took longer than I might have hoped, it takes some getting used to enunciate for the mike. We are probably still going to be at one update each day, still that's one update more than I thought we would manage so there's that.
     
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  • Threadmarks
    • Primeval Perils ​

    Twentieth Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    The scales shone like shards of moonlight in water, the runes upon them as though from some unknown time, as new as springtime, as old as the world. Down down down you went into the cold dark, through more than space, through more than time, into a place unnamed, and in truth unnameable. The stone changed not into the blackness of bilestone that you might have expected. Instead the stone was natural, but shattered as though by some great calamity as though by the doom to come.

    When the path opened into empty air, it was as shocking as if something had come upon you. But there was nothing, only the only the faintest hiss of alien air, a gas.

    "It's poison,"Lya says as she slips out through the stone in the wake of the Myrkdreki scout. "Also flammable," she added wryly. "Sort of like if you added swamp gas, ammonia, and water together."

    Qyburn's head came up with an odd squelching sound, boneless yet precise. "That's not so uncommon a material as you might imagine. He whose thoughts I took into myself was not a Remembered, not in the memory of their brood, but he knew some small measure of those secrets. Such air was the world's first breath."

    The revelation resonated with something within you, some dragon dream deeper than any you have yet borne witness to. Yet the part of you that was a child of this earth, of this time, rebels at the notion that all the world arose from such a poisoned nursery. No, there is something deeper than rejection there, deeper than disbelief; fear.

    No sooner had the thought passed through your mind than something begins to shake and quiver in the dark, oily flesh that bubbles like tar, that spews and divides into pseudopods, some thin, the width of a single hair, others as thick as a tree trunk, with eyes, everywhere eyes, bright as lightning upon poison skies. Not one but many, not only below, but also above.


    In that moment of horrified realization, you count not one but seven of the things, four twisting and turning in pools of stone, three crashing down like putrid rain from above. They had hidden well this trap older than all the mortal kindreds of the world, enough so that even Qyburn's truesight had not caught it, much less yours, about to smash down on Lya, Qyburn, and Aife. Why then had they revealed themselves now? You still have time to stop them, if only stolen time.

    "Ware, Your Grace," Qyburn's mindvoice echoes within. "To twist time in this place is to be twisted in turn."

    A trap within a trap then, no less than you might have expected, yet still the peril comes upon you like a wave upon the sea, and ethereal spell wings shall not ward it off. Mad whispers fill the basalt chamber, shattering into terrible laughter of its jagged edges. These are not the worst of your foes, of that you are certain, merely welcoming gift for any mortals who stray this deep into the realm of the Deep Ones.

    What do you do?

    [] Write in battle plan (Shoggoths have a surprise round but no one on your side is flat footed; you can use immediate actions; no further meddling with time unless you want to find out what Qyburn meant the hard way)

    OOC: This took longer than I might have hoped, it takes some getting used to enunciate for the mike. We are probably still going to be at one update each day, still that's one update more than I thought we would manage so there's that. Not yet edited.
    Here's an edited version of the chapter, @DragonParadox.
     
    They are not immune to negative energy effects, so Necrotic Skull Bomb from Qyburn and having both Myrkdreki use their Shadow Breath ability should take them down to more manageable levels without igniting the air.
     
    This is a bit more challenging than we are used to, bit it's fair in-context to the utter shitshow we decided to walk on in.

    ...I suppose it compensates to how much of a walkover the CoS have been :V
     
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