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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, are you sure we shouldn't just use the hole that the Shoggoth will leave behind while burrowing? It will be 60ft of Gargantuan tunnel each round.
 
By ignoring a trap we are leaving behind some enemies that'd try and hit us in the back, methinks.
Not arguing the choice, but it's worth keeping in mind that in all likelihood we will have another group of enemies (somewhat) behind us now.

[X] Goldfish
 
Azel said:
@Goldfish, are you sure we shouldn't just use the hole that the Shoggoth will leave behind while burrowing? It will be 60ft of Gargantuan tunnel each round.
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If @DragonParadox rules that it leaves a sufficiently large and stable tunnel in its wake, that would be preferable. Not all creatures who Burrow have that feature, and the Metamorphosis power doesn't specify it, either.
 
DragonParadox said:
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.
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Flesh like tar and inky darkness slams against your will in a tide of madness and all too knowing eyes, then one of the shoggoths below explodes in a mass of stringy flesh and fractal angles, its 'eyes' tearing free into the luminous tail of an eel-like creature with jaws within jaws and teeth of thrice envenomed glass. Its voice had been hidden in the mad babbling, just as its flesh had been coiled in the form of its thrall. Stillness pours forth from its maws, eating into your spell like acid.
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Alas, your true foe seems to be of the same mind and by the time the figment had faded it was gone in a twist of alien thoughts and violated space, paying no mind to Aife's attempt to bind it in the name of her god. In the babble of the shoggoths' voices it left behind the strangest and most unsettling thing you had heard from one of its ilk, a nursery rhyme as old as the world and spread from the Sunset Sea to Volantis: "Won't you come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly."
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Lya's voice redoubles into another arcane chorus, a blessing for the divine herald, even as the power of the first remains upon you. For one blinding moment the poisoned night of the cavern is replaced with the mingled greens, blues and gold of dawn upon the sea, Aife's form arching through the air to dance with devotion and deadly purpose. A mortal adept might have needed some sign or seal, some vessel to hold their god's will, not so the Herald of the Ferryman.

Six threads of light uncoil from her mane and glide each upon a different foe, such thin bindings for whole mountains off eldritch flesh and mad eyes. Three find their mark from the first, three cast astray by lying darkness' grip. No, only two, you realize. In this strange murk you can almost see the unnatural patterns of Qyburn's magic sway the threads of fate. No doubt a first for the Merling King's servant, but a welcome one from the appreciative look in her sea-green eyes.

Fortunately, there is more than one way to bind the foe. Blood seeps from your palm, it burns to nothing before it can strike the ground. As one of the shoggoths start crawling up the wall into some crack or crevice you do not reach for its mind, having no taste for madness, instead you grip it in an all-encompassing net of unseen power. It is not so difficult a thing to give form to the formless.

The last of the horrors, seeing itself outmatched, gives a long cacophonous keening and vanishes from sight, called forth by some unseen master.
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@DragonParadox, so of the seven Missing Shaggoths, one was apparently an Omnipath that ran off via Psionic Dimension Door. Then we captured five of the six remaining Shaggoths while the last one ran away. Do I have this correct?
 
One escaped, six were present in total, with additional seventh being a fake and Omnipath, five were captured. Four of the captured are trapped inside object(s), with the fifth being puppeteer'd by magic.
 
It would really be great if we could get a preliminary energy pool going, so that we can start accumulating power for the pseudo-deity.
 
Duesal said:
@DragonParadox, so of the seven Missing Shaggoths, one was apparently an Omnipath that ran off via Psionic Dimension Door. Then we captured five of the six remaining Shaggoths while the last one ran away. Do I have this correct?
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Yes that is right.

Also guys I'm afraid we won't have a second update today. I sort of overestimated how much energy I would have today and this damn nerve entrapment is hurting again. I'm just not in the head space to write a good game even dictating.
 
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