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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:
On the Arc of Oblivion​

Sometime in the Age of Heroes, Before the Rise of Valyria

As Ser Richard charges the first of your foes, a spell of translocation seems to trigger independent of it, laying dormant in the air attached to some ephemarial ward. The thing is gone, leaving the knight's blade cutting only empty air... from which bursts a bolt of withering unlife the knight is forced to parry on sheer instinct lest it flay the flesh from his bones. Even Oathkeeper cannot direct it back at a foe that is currently nowhere.

As the Aboleth reappears wreathed in a ring sickly green of lightning like an alien crown above its three hateful eyes, darkness impenetrable falls in the hissing breath of the Twins exhailing upon the other Deep One which finds itself seemingly without ward, but this is a place and a time of their choosing, if time the dim twilight could be called. With scarce a thought, the enemy erects a wall of glistening silver false-matter that blackens and shatters on contact, but serves its purpose still.

Lightning flashes once... twice, both bolts aimed at Lya, both finding their mark as she shudders in pain.

Lya takes 24 Damage

Curses swirl through your mind, cold and vicious, but with a single tenor. Fuck these things and fuck the tide that dredged them from the depths of the world. By intricate gestures and tongue-tying syllables such as have broken many a battle mage of old, you summon no mere line of destruction but a sphere, like a black sun risen over a frozen world. "Be Not!"

It seems for a moment the monster had run out of paths to slide on. It looks on in what seems to be frozen horror at the sphere and onrushing oblivion... tries to blink away, but cannot quite time it right.
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Fate twists with a lurch that leaves you feeling sick to your stomach like a passenger on a storm-tossed ship, and the foe manages to slip away. "It is not foreseen," the thing proclaims grandly. Another crash of hidden thunder expands, first in your second sight right on top of Lya even as Aife makes her way back into the fray from whatever nightmare she had been consigned to.

The sea cat pounces...

Crystal flares....

Thunder rolls impossibly loud.

This time Lya is ready. She banishes the thunder before it can tear through her and then strikes the illithid with a fist of distilled arcane power able to pass through even its ethereal form. Struck with a blow unbidden, the eater of minds reels unable to find its bearing.

You turn to look upon your first and obviously most dangerous foe. The sphere of darkness again fails to find its mark, though it carves a piece of tainted flesh out at a glancing blow. Thus onto it you wish the hatred more implacable than mortal man or deathless spirit of the Spheres could conjure, the hatred of nature defiled. Though the power is yours, the shape of it is the same one those spirits of rock and tree who guided you to this place, to this time, to end what should never have begun.

Alas, it is not quite enough to contend with the alien will before you.

"If you would be Ironborn then drown!" it sends mockingly as time tears like a whirlwind around it and it is gone, vanished into the depths of time where you cannot follow.

It is only as Qyburn tears the staff from the illithid's hands before dispelling the shroud that you realize what the Aboleth had meant. A great wave, black as midnight, is rising from the sea to sweep aside all who stand upon the hill.

It is only then you hear the screams start. The ironborn are awake and aware again.

What do you do?

[] Fake the Drowned God saving them from the wave with illusion as well as true magic

[] Just dispel the wave and let someone else finish the pledge, the less you meddle the better for keeping time on its course

[] Write in

OOC: This was really complicated to write what with all the swift actions, immediate actions, move actions used for something other than moving and spells hanging mid air because they had technically been delayed. Hopefully it's understandable. Not yet edited.
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
 
I wouldn't worry about editing the chapter to account for it, @DragonParadox, but Viserys should always have detailed knowledge whenever something is Teleporting to any location within 55 feet of him.
Goldfish said:
Amulet of Anticipated Translocation(Slotless):
  • As per the Greater Anticipate Teleportationspell, you are aware of all Teleportation effects which will arrive within 55 feet of your location. You know the exact arrival point of those being transported, along with their numbers, size and creature type.
    • You can choose to delay the arrival of those using Teleportation effects within this area by up to three rounds.
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And he can delay their arrival for up to three rounds if he chooses.

Something to keep in mind for future encounters.
 
Tomcost said:
We didn't go for Dimensional Anchor

Damn
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We tried to get it with a Dimensional Lock in the first round of combat, but it was able to avoid the trap. Trying a Dimensional Anchor probably wouldn't have been any more successful, and that's only if whatever it was doing wasn't some sort of time hopping BS rather than genuine travel magic.
 
Well, the Chronomancer fleeing sucks.

I'm not sure how we can possibly deal with the timeline-fuckery he'll definitely do now that their ritual failed, to try and get back at us.
If it is smart, it is fleeing, waiting for us to leave the point in time, and then fucks around changing essential things.
Like they already are 100% willing to, seeing how their Drowny is never coming into being once the wave hits the Iron Men here.

So, uh, we'd be fucked and with no chance of doing anything about it?
So, whatever.

Gotta hope OGs can help us unfuck things by Time-domain of theirs, and that Yss manages to see people unmade by time through his Life/Death Domains.
We might be in for a Chrono Trigger Arc if this guy decides "fuck Viserys Targarien" :V
 
So I have been made aware my constant liking every post maybe annoying some people. In that case i apologize. If you like this post I will stop doing it for you. Apolozie if I made someone's day worse.
 
DragonParadox said:
You get him with the ball of disintegration and chunks of its flesh did vanish
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...So would, in theory, Blood Wish be enough to reverse the dseintegration and get us those chunks?
*long-shots so hard, flies past the Moon*
:V

Joking, joking.
The usage of the Staff to hunt down straggling enemy has become... a bit re[dacted] lately, at my own hands mostly.
Stuff like "Miracle together some flaskes of skin!" is truly asinine as a way to break past Mindblanks. Am ashamed.
 
egoo said:
...So would, in theory, Blood Wish be enough to reverse the dseintegration and get us those chunks?
*long-shots so hard, flies past the Moon*
:V

Joking, joking.
The usage of the Staff to hunt down straggling enemy has become... a bit re[dacted] lately, at my own hands mostly.
Stuff like "Miracle together some flaskes of skin!" is truly asinine as a way to break past Mindblanks. Am ashamed.
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I would allow it but not automatically. It would take a knowledge dungeoneering roll
 
Tbh if we are unable to deal with the chronomancer right now I am more than willing to just... dispose of the pre-drowned god divine energy instead of incorporating them into the Imperial Deity.
 
DragonParadox said:
I would allow it but not automatically. It would take a knowledge dungeoneering roll
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Just to note, I have grown uncomfortable with Miracle-spam to counter Mindblank so easily as "gather dust/flakes/etc".
Not that it ever worked in a major way on-screen this far, mind. So not much to ignore.

It'd be way different if the bastard actually bled here.
 
egoo said:
Well, the Chronomancer fleeing sucks.

I'm not sure how we can possibly deal with the timeline-fuckery he'll definitely do now that their ritual failed, to try and get back at us.
If it is smart, it is fleeing, waiting for us to leave the point in time, and then fucks around changing essential things.
Like they already are 100% willing to, seeing how their Drowny is never coming into being once the wave hits the Iron Men here.

So, uh, we'd be fucked and with no chance of doing anything about it?
So, whatever.

Gotta hope OGs can help us unfuck things by Time-domain of theirs, and that Yss manages to see people unmade by time through his Life/Death Domains.
We might be in for a Chrono Trigger Arc if this guy decides "fuck Viserys Targarien" :V
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I don't think the amount of timeline fuckery he could pull off here should be taken as representative of his casual abilities.

He'll try to kill us sure, but I doubt he can do stuff like teleporting back in time to abort Viserys. If he could pull shit like that then he would have done so now, instead of fighting us while we were capable of harming him.

As for handling this situation right now, we don't actually have to let anyone remember this. Wild Arcana'd Damnation of Memory would let us steal their recollection of whatever we do to fix this and finish the oath. We only need to get enough people to make the ones we miss sound crazy to reduce the wave to historical footnote instead of major miracle.

I think we should go out of our way to to do this, since the Chronomancer would have known we could block this. The point probably isn't (just) petty spite, I bet he's putting something together to exploit our reaction to his benefit.

Putting things back on our original plan's tracks (or as close as we can manage to them) is probably the best bet since that's the timeline he's trying to avoid.
 
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