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

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Duesal said:
Dumb luck is their greatest ally. You should never encourage victims to do nothing to learn to defend themselves. That is the height of willful ignorance and downright malicious.

The only reason they survived is that they don't give the Dothraki a fight at all and they get bored. But that doesn't stop tens of thousands of people being raped and enslaved and killed.
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History is filled with pacifist religions even in the face of obvious provocation.
 
As a side note, I'm more then a bit pissed at their mage just opening a Gate in our city. Doubly so because somehow this yet again was not picked up by our Divination efforts.
 
Artemis1992 said:
Maybe the Ghiskari and Dothraki are capable of holding back even a little bit, and not killing off the easiest prey in the area permanently?
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Shearing the sheep rather than skinning it.

Except the wool is people.
Azel said:
As a side note, I'm more then a bit pissed at their mage just opening a Gate in our city. Doubly so because somehow this yet again was not picked up by our Divination efforts.
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I'll be damned. That didn't even occur to me.
 
DragonParadox said:
He is under mind blank. If you can cast gate you can afford mind blank.
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Okay. No. This does not make sense. The Gate itself is not Mindblanked and not an item in his possession either.

And even then, non-mindblanked people came through that Gate and thus their arrival by gate should be divinable.

Or do we have to assume that Asmodeus can gather an army in Slavers Bay, send a Mindblanked Pit Fiend to open a Gate to SD and we can't do fuck-all against it?
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
I was under the impression that Mindblank gave the equivalent of "Your question cannot be answered" rather than a false negative. Is that not the case?
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If someone under Mind Blank teleports to your castle and you ask divination if anyone teleported to your castle, you'd get a no. Because they weren't detected.

But if you ask anything about that Mind Blanked person specifically you'd get an error. Because they weren't detected.
 
I'll have you note that the one time we really see a worshipper of that God on screen, she straight-up destroys the biggest Dothraki khalasar using blood magic.
I suspect that their "pacifist" religion has loopholes of some sort. Insufficient ones (seeing as they're one of the main sources of slaves for the entire economy of slaver's bay), but loopholes. Maybe they're willing to hire mercenaries, or to shelter in a heathen city in an emergency?

Or maybe they just accept the fact that a significant fraction of their population will be killed and/or enslaved each generation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Also I just want to stress again that this can't be Gate, as Gate doesn't work from one place on the Plane to another on the same.

It must have been Teleport Circle.
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
I was under the impression that Mindblank gave the equivalent of "Your question cannot be answered" rather than a false negative. Is that not the case?
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Who knows...

@egoo @Goldfish Anyway, dimensional redirection island-wide is now a priority. Aren't there pre-existing options for that though? Or do we need to wait for Lya to go up another level/mythic rank to make an artifact for it? I think it was called a Weird, but that we couldn't just "rustle one up on the open market" according to @DragonParadox.
 
Azel said:
Okay. No. This does not make sense. The Gate itself is not Mindblanked and not an item in his possession either.

And even then, non-mindblanked people came through that Gate and thus their arrival by gate should be divinable.

Or do we have to assume that Asmodeus can gather an army in Slavers Bay, send a Mindblanked Pit Fiend to open a Gate to SD and we can't do fuck-all against it?
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Hmm... you are right, I did not think that through yesterday. Looks like I'll have to rewrite the interlude a bit.

So much for not writing today :V

Seriously, thanks for pointing this out. I'll have them arrive some other way.
 
Crake said:
Who knows...

@egoo @Goldfish Anyway, dimensional redirection island-wide is now a priority. Aren't there pre-existing options for that though? Or do we need to wait for Lya to go up another level/mythic rank to make an artifact for it? I think it was called a Weird, but that we couldn't just "rustle one up on the open market" according to @DragonParadox.
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It's called a Weird stone and can only be crafted by level 20 characters...which Lya is not...unfortunately.

Edit: Although a Weirdstone is just a fuck Divination and Teleportation within 6 miles
 
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Crake said:
Who knows...

@egoo @Goldfish Anyway, dimensional redirection island-wide is now a priority. Aren't there pre-existing options for that though? Or do we need to wait for Lya to go up another level/mythic rank to make an artifact for it? I think it was called a Weird, but that we couldn't just "rustle one up on the open market" according to @DragonParadox.
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We have that tech, at least in theory. This is how the Terminus works.
 
I presume that we didn't see them Teleprot it because we just didn't ask the right questions. They're not attacking or damaging us, they're not spying on us... They probably just don't tick any of the boxes in our generic Divination-array.
We don't actually have infinite Divinations, so I expect us to notice obvious stuff and attacks, but not every single harmless friendly who teleports in. Otherwise the Furies probably cause a panic whenever they go from one city to another...
I don't think @DragonParadox needs to rewrite this.
 
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