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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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TalonofAnathrax said:
I was hoping for a bit more of an explanation of how exactly we time-traveled this time.

IIRC we went back the first time by "riding" the effects of a massive ritual which rippled through time by going down deep into the earth where the ritual was nested - and the deeper we went, the closer we got to the ritual itself both in space and in time. Then we passed through the Drowned God's almost-underworld, did our own ritual shenanigans to fuck with the Deep One ritual, and then emerged back on the surface in the time of the ritual and not in our time.
  • Unrelated question: did we go "up" (from our perspective) to reach the surface Material Plane Iron Islands? Or did we go even deeper into the Drowned God's almost-underworld and then reach the Prime Material Plane again?
I'd assumed that this was because we'd passed through the almost-underworld and done our own ritual bullshit and had managed our own navigation of the magic bullshit.

But how did we pop back a few hours/days into the past for this latest ambush? Did we just go for a very short jaunt beneath the ground to go slightly back through time? Did we somehow detect, manipulate and/or navigate the threads of this massive ritual again?
I presume that this last question is correct - but maybe we could have some in-story indication of how we did it? Did we use spells that let us see magic directly and then manipulate the ritual ourselves with our ritual lore? Did we use context clues and/or any visible ritual setups to figure out how this ritual was working? Did we use some sort of spell?
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Shhhhh.
Have a lampshade:

[:V]

Crake said:
Shrink Item + Godbox.
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Past us would be applying Yss' godstraff versus our own Mindblank + warded box combo.

Worst case, Yss-staff finds it (past us would be totally willing to throw Miracles and Mythic Power onto the effect to power through some wards), or cracks trying.
Both get us a paradox.

I don't think we want to chance how good our wards are against ourselves.

Past us have souped-up Aife and Tiamat's Power in a well we'd also be willing to pour into the Divination-ritual - 'past' us were reasonably spooked by the Aboleth.


...Which is the highest CR kill so far?
25, jesus christ on a pogo stick.

@Artemis1992, I've already said it once, imma say it twice, good job on providing a reasonably powerful in-setting (not really a Deity-level beyond a very particular field) and utterly terrifying on a personal level opponent.
By all rights, it should've escaped and unmade us.
 
Duesal said:
Technically Tiamat. CR 25/MR 5.
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Doesn't really count, the Worm and our Gods did most of the job.

That we survived a few rounds there is an achievement of it's own, though.
Especially with her having Mindblank-piercing stuff on us.
Turn Fate FTW.

Our party is stupidly OP to take on this sort of challenge and win.
I'll try to not act like I suspect DP in skewing things on the easier side, the Aboleth should've by all rights ran away and tormented us, but the story wouldn't survive that sort of arc.
 
MickOfTime said:
Alright, here's a question. If this is the highest...what was the most satisfying?
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For me? This:
Duesal said:
Aspect of Mammon, Lord of the Third (CR 21)
Thirtieth Day of the Fourth Month 293 AC
Great serpentine coils, each scale a coin of some forgotten empire stretch out shifting seamlessly into the upper body of a golden-skinned giant, perfect in every proportion. The face atop it is no less angelic seeming, though it is twisted in an expression of pride and greed for which there is no name in the tongues of men for it bespeaks of desires, of needs no mortal soul could ever contemplate. This is an aspect of Mammon, Archduke of the Third Circle of the Nine Hells. He came into direct conflict with you when you freed Mereth the Erinyes from his service, and to you he offered a bargain: beat him in battle and claim his corpse as your prize and even gain the right to tempt devils away from Hell's service, or if you lose and die Mammon would be given free reign to run rampant in Prime Material. It was the most dangerous challenge you'd ever faced and nothing you'd even dreamed of facing for years yet, but in the end you and your companions triumphed, and the aspect's treasures and the right to tempt devils away from Hell are now yours.
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This was when we entered the big leauges.
 
egoo said:
[X] Plan: "Back to the Future"
[X] The time runs short, calming the Ironborn and conducting the ritual that had your 'past' selves Divine the Aboleth and fail, takes to finish barely longer than a dozen minutes after it fleeing the battle.
-[X] Prepare to go back into the time-stream... and spring the Omnipath's trap, if any is still there.
-[X] in the short time you have remaining before a paradox happens, cast a few Divinations, looking for out-of-the-beaten-path Heart Trees. Who knows, maybe the luck will favor you, and you'll find some fossilized Heart Trees in the far 'future' from here, long as they aren't in Andal lands nor Westeros.
--[X] Don't risk pushing it - a few minutes before the staff-ritual finishing is the time to leave. The remaining enemy's best shot at spitting you would be to slow you down now, before you can stop time from breaking over you.
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Viserys can now use the Divination spell as a SLA, allowing him to cast it as a Standard Action rather than needing 10 minutes or the use of Wild Arcana as a shortcut. That should help speed things up without using any important resources.

[X] egoo
 
I remember being 100% certain that the Archdevil of Greed would have an insane amount of magic items and stressing out during the fight planning because of how ridiculous that could get... And then he had worse gear than us :confused:
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
I remember being 100% certain that the Archdevil of Greed would have an insane amount of magic items and stressing out during the fight planning because of how ridiculous that could get... And then he had worse gear than us :confused:
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Was that ever explained? My assumption was that items, general abilities, etc, were a function of how much power Mammon (or any other being of that level) was willing to invest into the creation of the aspect, and by extension how much of his own power he was willing to put at risk. I can't remember if that was ever confirmed, though.
 
MickOfTime said:
Was that ever explained? My assumption was that items, general abilities, etc, were a function of how much power Mammon (or any other being of that level) was willing to invest into the creation of the aspect, and by extension how much of his own power he was willing to put at risk. I can't remember if that was ever confirmed, though.
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Oh. Mammon was so surprised that we took the deal that he came in, what was essentially, his sleep clothes...then we proceeded to abuse him for all he was worth.

Edit: He could have come in with stronger gear but he was caught off guard.
 
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One Autumn Leaf said:
Oh. Mammon was so surprised that we took the deal that he came in, what was essentially, his sleep clothes...then we proceeded to abuse him for all he was worth.

Edit: He could have come in with stronger gear but he was caught off guard.
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Next time we see him he's almost definitely going to be rocking his best stuff.

Ah, so much to loot.
 
MickOfTime said:
Was that ever explained? My assumption was that items, general abilities, etc, were a function of how much power Mammon (or any other being of that level) was willing to invest into the creation of the aspect, and by extension how much of his own power he was willing to put at risk. I can't remember if that was ever confirmed, though.
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He sent an Avatar that grabbed a handful of gear as it was being Summoned. Hell, he might have formed the Avatar as he was speaking with us and thrown some random stuff at it. There wasn't very much time, just a few seconds, before his window of opportunity closed.
 
Well, let's hope Lya levels.
That's really the priority for now, Arcanums get upgrooded, 9th level spells get lerned...

She wasn't there for the 'kill' against the Aboleth, but the Shoggoth-encounter and capturing the Illithid should be about enough..?
Hopefully?

Let's hope Aife didn't get too much XP eaten off by being with us. Her CR is kinda OP too.
 
egoo said:
Well, let's hope Lya levels.
That's really the priority for now, Arcanums get upgrooded, 9th level spells get lerned...

She wasn't there for the 'kill' against the Aboleth, but the Shoggoth-encounter and capturing the Illithid should be about enough..?
Hopefully?

Let's hope Aife didn't get too much XP eaten off by being with us. Her CR is kinda OP too.
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Lya was part of the capture. She, along with Aife and one of the Myrkdreki diverted its Teleport, after all, meaning they got to see the fight, including their past selves, before acting. Lya boosted Aife's spell so hard that even a god would have been threatened, and she and the Dragon were their for Alter Fortune in case it for a lucky Nat 20 in its save.

Hmm, @DragonParadox, this would be a neat interlude from Lya's POV.
 
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