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

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Dispater: Oh no looks like I left my SECRET FILES filled with the SEVEN'S CHOSEN'S LOCATIONS! Better hope that there isn't a MYTHIC DRAGON ARCHMAGE who would benefit from this confidential info!~
 
Daredevil_Dave said:
Do we have the last known locations of all the Seven's chosen?

Because feeding them to the OG feels like karmic justice, and I'm kinda down for that.
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Chosen of the Father -- Lucan Longfield -- Soul-killed in a mission where he basically invaded Hell.
Chosen of the Mother -- None as far as we know
Chosen of the Warrior -- Brienne of Tarth -- Our vassal, should be in Sorcerer's Deep as part of the coronation actually
Chosen of the Maiden -- Danelle -- In limbo presumably forever in the Feywild as she tries to hunt down the missing Ifequevron
Chosen of the Smith -- I don't even remember his name -- Still in the Vale?
Chosen of the Crone -- Danar Crowl of Skagos and Edmure Tully managed to murder her after stealing some relic sacred to the Crone (though Edmure was mostly just defending his friend and had nothing to do with the theft), and now we don't know who the next Chosen is
Chosen of the Stranger -- None as far as we know
silvanknight said:
Dispater: Oh no looks like I left my SECRET FILES filled with the SEVEN'S CHOSEN'S LOCATIONS! Better hope that there isn't a MYTHIC DRAGON ARCHMAGE who would benefit from this confidential info!~
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Imagine if he actually does this as a solid for us warning him about Mammon's schemes against him.
 
Duesal said:
killed in a mission where he basically invaded Hell.
Chosen of the Mother -- None as far as we know
Chosen of the Warrior -- Brienne of Tarth -- Our vassal, should be in Sorcerer's Deep as part of the coronation actually
Chosen of the Maiden -- Danelle -- In limbo presumably forever in the Feywild as she tries to hunt down the missing Ifequevron
Chosen of the Smith -- I don't even remember his name -- Still in the Vale?
Chosen of the Crone -- Danar Crowl of Skagos and Edmure Tully managed to murder her after stealing some relic sacred to the Crone (though Edmure was mostly just defending his friend and had nothing to do with the theft), and now we don't know who the next Chosen is
Chosen of the Stranger -- None as far as we know
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Oh, guess no god's champion smoothie for the OG then.
 
Daredevil_Dave said:
Do we have the last known locations of all the Seven's chosen?

Because feeding them to the OG feels like karmic justice, and I'm kinda down for that.

Edit: wait, I'm confused. Is the 7 actually gonna be opposing us? I thought we had a temple of them in the Deep.

Edit 2: I mean, as long as they still have followers after the Reconquest I don't think they are gonna be hindering us anytime soon.
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We put together that temple for a few different reasons. The simplest one is political; having it signals that we'd attempt to have a relationship with the faith instead of going full Maegor on them.

The more delicate one is based around the fact that gods are shaped by worship, and can't selectively reject earnest faith. Enough of a drift can literally change a god's mind, and a schism can tear it in half. We deliberately set up that sept as part of the start to a plan to abuse that fact to fuck with the Seven's heads. It got dropped during the conclave, but we never actually stopped passively supporting the heresy we deliberately fostered.

If I had to bet, I'd put money on them never really letting that last bit go.
 
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BronzeTongue said:
We put together that temple for a few different reasons. The simplest one is political; having it signals that we'd attempt to have a relationship with the faith instead of going full Maegor on them.

The more delicate one is based around the fact that gods are shaped by worship, and can't selectively reject earnest faith. Enough of a drift can literally change a god's mind, and a schism can tear it in half. We deliberately set up that sept as part of the start to a plan to abuse that fact to fuck with the Seven's heads. It got dropped during the conclave, but we never actually stopped passively supporting the heresy we deliberately fostered.

If I had to bet, I'd put money on them never really letting that last bit go.
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Yup. Seems the official line from the Seven is "magic is fine, so long as we have total control over it".

Viserys' whole agenda runs counter to that. That and the whole "my secular power and authority will always supercede any tangible form of power or authority you possess".
 
Azel said:
Speaking of a large @egoo, what was the Maximum Socials buff scheme again?
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with some outdate'ness?
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Goldfish said:
@Azel I think this covers everything.

Here's the social bonuses to use while approaching Crimson Lotus; Air of Nobility, Blood Wished Focused Scrutiny, Voice of the Dragon, and Wild Arcana'd Greater Heroism modified by the Encouraging Spell Metamagic (learned via Ancestral Awakening). This will add a constant +30 bonus to Viserys' base +48 Diplomacy bonus.

He should also have Divine Insight, Blood Wished Honeyed Tongue, and Moment of Greatness active. Divine Insight and Moment of Greatness can be discharged simultaneously to provide an additional +20 when needed. With Honeyed Tongue, Viserys gets to make all of his Diplomacy rolls twice, taking the higher of the two.

He can use his Orb of Mental Renewal before going into the meeting to heal his Charisma damage from using Blood Wish here.

During the meeting, he should be prepared to Blood Wish Surge of Fortune and Peacemaker's Parley spells. Neither of these spells can be cast too far ahead of time, but Viserys can use them surreptitiously without being noticed; all of his spells are Silent now and he can Still two spells per day using his Bracers. Crimson Lotus won't be able to discern the spells being cast.

All told, he can go into the meeting with a +78 Diplomacy bonus, increase that to +80 with Peacemaker's Parley, and +82 with Surge of Fortune. Using Blood Wish twice will decrease Viserys' Charisma bonus by one point, lowering the overall Diplomacy bonus to +81, a net gain of +3 points. Discharging Surge of Fortune (for an effective Nat 20), Divine Insight (+15), and Moment of Greatness (+5) will increase that to +119. And then add a +1d6 Mythic Surge bonus as a finisher.

+119+1d6 seems likely to have an effect.

PS: You can substitue Sirine's Grace in place of Peacemaker's Parley if you don't mind reducing his maximum Diplomacy bonus by -2 points, reducing the Diplomacy bonus to 117+1d6 in favor of getting a +8 bonus to Perform(Oratory).
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Well good news bad news on the vaccine front, the good news is that I am functional enough to sit here and type, the bad news is that I feel exactly like I got a bad cold (without the sore throat) and I do not think that is the mood to be writing triumphal entries in. I'll keep you guys posted on when I feel up to writing to a decent standard
 
[] Plan Absolute Heresy
-[] Buffs:
--[] Viserys gets his usual speech buffs and in addition uses Miracles to copy Greater Angelic Aspect (wings hidden by Greater Ribbon of Disguise) and Crown of Glory, spending Bloodwishes for Divine Presence, Sacred Nimbus,
Devil's Ego, Righteous Aura and casts Starmantle on himself. Lastly, he casts Adoration of the Frightful from a scroll.
--[] Balerion is buffed by Starmantle and Adoration of the Frightful from a scroll.
--[] Overland Flight is cast on anyone in the party not yet able to fly.
-[] When the Dauntless arrives over Kings Landing, it will be hidden in a cloud and carry with it a small layer of floating ice crystals over the city. When it reveals itself the cloud dissipates, revealing the vessel, whose glammered hull is made to display the Targaryen crest.
-[] Viserys casts as Miracle to wrap the Dauntless and the incoming Wyverns in flames. Those flames won't hurt anything, but they will shed a warm, almost golden light that lights up the entire city, and which will reflect in the ice layer above, creating an aurora-like effect that lights up the whole night sky.
-[] Balerion, the Heralds and the Wyverns will circle above the city, shedding their light on it and lighting up the sky.
-[] Viserys steps off the Dauntless' hull, gently floating down to the plaza before the Great Sept of Baelor while using scrolls of Mages Decree and his Angelic Aspects Truespeech to deliver his words to everyone in the entire city.
-[] Speech:
--[] "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the city of Sorcerers Deep, an Imperator has been crowned." 30 Words - 2 Scrolls
--[] All Imperial soldiers within the city will chant in reply, due to being spread out over the city, they will be heard in the entire city and it will sound like a massive chorus coming from everywhere: "Glory to the Imperator, here on this world and beyond."
--[] "You were made to toil and suffer in darkness by wicked kings and scheming lords, but today, I come to end their reign. With me, I bring my legions, so that the righteous shall know reprieve, and that the wicked shall know fear." 43 Words - 2 Scrolls
--[] Chorus: "By his will, we march and justice shall follow in our steps."
--[] "With me, I bring my healers, so that you may know succor. No longer shall you be made to starve. No longer shall you fear sickness and rot." 28 Words - 2 Scrolls
--[] Chorus: "Through his hand, this world shall be mended."
--[] "With me, I bring the light, so that it may warm your hearts and minds." 21 Words - 1 Scroll
--[] Chrous: "In his light, peace shall reign."
--[] "So come forth and see, for the dawn has come." 10 Words - 1 Scroll
-[] At this point, Viserys lands on the plaza, most likely in the midst of a stunned crowd. Bonus points if the High Septon comes out and kneels at this point.
-[] Viserys will then lead his party to the Red Keep and to the Iron Throne.
 
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[X] Azel

Edit: Just realized that the current plan was still ongoing.
 
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—And upon the first day of the fifth month does He reveal Himself. He brought with Him the Black Beast of his forebears and a Great Armament blazing crimson and upon its prow the Crystalline mark of his form was shown, that he was King Above All. And He Descended to the earth, showing his great countenance and Divinity as he cast the streets alight with his flame. His words as law was heard by all the paupers, and merchants, and lords. And they quailed for they are Faithless to him. Then the Imperator spoke to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the city of Sorcerers Deep, an Imperator has been crowned. You were made to toil and suffer in darkness by wicked kings and scheming lords, but today, I come to end their reign. With me, I bring my legions, so that the righteous shall know reprieve, and that the wicked shall know fear. With me, I bring my healers, so that you may know succor. No longer shall you be made to starve. No longer shall you fear sickness and rot. With me, I bring the light, so that it may warm your hearts and minds. So come forth and see, for the dawn has come." And thousands of soldiers bedecked by arms of blackened steel replies with him like a roar of a dragon's wing as it take flight. And by His name do they exult Him as their Ruler.

Lectitio Draconis, Deliverance 1:1-9.​
 
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Interlude MXVI: Night's Counsel
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    • Night's Counsel​

    Thirtieth Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    Though grand was the hour and loud the silvered trumpets singing it, the work of Empire did not slow, the clink of coin and the clank of abacuses abacuses' bearings the soft hiss of paper being laid all in its place. The task of a scribe was never done, that much had been known from time out of mind when men still carved tallies upon stone and pressed letters into soft clay, but in the newly named Imperium, whose wheels of state still ran in the same groves that had been worn in months and years past, that was a hundred times truer, or perhaps a thousand time. That was a matter of debate between those who worked in the growing apparatus of governance and those who served the Imperator's Companies under the banner of the Red Scales.

    There was a jest making the rounds told in hushed whispers over sly smiles that he really aught to change his banner from a three-headed dragon to a pair of crimson scales. After all, the Imperium would have plenty of wings in the sky even if every dragon bar one fell dead from it, but even Imperator Viserys First of His Name could not replace thousands of clerks and scribes who ensured that payments were made and profits gathered.

    For once the Imperator was not spending the last day of the month looking over figures and judging profits, but one might almost feel him in spirit in the main offices of Red Scales, the purring satisfaction of a wyrm beholding his growing hoard, wrought not of gold, silver, or precious things lying in some forgotten mount, but of the gathered worth of an economy in motion.

    Astral Currents Stock Exchange Company grows 14% (Regular Growth)

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    In shadowed halls far more arcane other tallies were being made, no less important to the Realm for all the numbers were far lower, for these would be the mages who would set out to guard the Realm from fiends and timeless horrors, from traitors and proscribed cultists, though some of course would have some seasoning yet to make ere they would be sent out. Not many of those mages just setting off upon the path would believe that the Dragon who rules over other dragons, the King and now the Imperator, had once faced the world with barely enough magic to kindle fire and soothe a suspicious mind, but some were there who looked up to the heavens and the flames writ upon it not only with awe, but ambition also.

    FINAL TABLE
    Class\Level1,002,003,004,005,006,00
    Hedge Mage761,45388,64103,9132,2623,787,96
    Adept624,92374,72108,5611,6420,45n/a
    Wizard114,31283722504370,6330,9815,6715,46n/a
    Archivist95,5567,3026,6610,653,08n/a
    Cleric80,0435,176,780,930,08n/a
    Mystic104,1871,9132,4110,962,731,82
    Druid65,0933,905,590,410,02n/a
    Sorcerer (battle)59,9845,6721,678,103,4620,12
    Sorcerer (enchanter)60,0444,8625,8215,7619,5215,98
    Bard97,6159,7017,794,840,95n/a
    Duskblade82,5846,6314,183,170,41n/a
    Hexblade64,180,001,555,780,86n/a
    Alchemist80,4944,9814,802,541,90n/a
    Alchemist (Herbalist)56,480,000,000,000,00n/a
    Ranger32,8522,405,810,860,07n/a
    Hunter32,7215,625,951,500,20n/a
    Magewright562,000,000,000,000,00n/a

    Teach a man to hold a sword and they suddenly think they are a knight, teach them to bend reality to their whims and they think they are gods in the making, Ser Alliser Thorne, master-at-arms of the Night's Watch, thought as he considered the men he would be taking with him back to the Wall. Two sorcerers who could throw a handful of fire, a singer who could hold a healing tune, and him the most skilled of the lot for the fact that he had not been a fool and given up his sword to pick up sorcery. The bloody Queen could wipe the floor with the lot of them, or scatter their ashes as the case might be.

    Not that he had nothing against the woman, far from it. If anyone deserved a good life it was her. But it rankled him something fierce that the insult he had shouted so many times over a snowy field would now be true of the men he had brought here to train, hells even him. A lady could beat you black and blue with her fan...

    It was a lady with a fiddle this time around, but it came down to the same thing. He could be down there feasting, the night would hide the color of his cloak well enough and the wine would still the tongues of those who might think ill of the choice, but Ser Alliser Thorne did not want to be tolerated, he did not want their pity nor their sympathy. He was honest enough to know he too craved greatness as much as any peasant's brat with shit still on their heels to walk through the tower's shadow.

    1. 1x Duskblade level 5 (Ser Alliser Throne)
    2. 2x Wizards Level 3
    3. 1x Bard Level 3

    A raven that was no common bird perched on the bench beside him and cawed curiously. The feathers looked oddly soft in the soft blue light of the lantern swaying overhead. They were forging these better and better. "Why do you sit in the dark when there is such light close by? Are not you and your kin drawn to it?" the 'bird' asked in harsh voice.

    The Black Brother was not sure what moved him to speak then. "Because I am neither of one feather or another, and soon to be forgotten on a frozen perch save for the lists and honors no one reads. It will be all the armies of the south that fight the War for Dawn—dragons, sorcerers, and ships of the sky. What worth is an oath that is..." He had to struggle to recall the word that fit the feeling, for it was not Common nor even Low Valyrian, but in the grinding tongue of stone which some of the craftsmen of the Deep had taken for their own. "Obsolete." Like a blade too worn out to be worth sharpening...

    For a long moment the bird stood there in eerie silence, its beady eyes fixed on the knight. "There is more than one way to sharpen a blade, if you would dare it. Go thee further south into the steaming land of Gogossos and there seek those who mold flesh like clay and ask for the use of their arts."

    Before Alliser could gather his wits from the fact that the bird had read his damn mind it was gone in a flurry of feathers.

    OOC: Being sick may not be a good mood to write a triumph in, but the headspace of a man who feels he is bound of obscurity and failure flowed fine. In case you are wondering that was not a Three-Eyed Raven, but rather the original inspiration for them doing a bit of mysterious mentoring. He will also pay for any grafts and templates Alliser wants up to +3 CR. This is partly because he sympathies with Thorne and partly because he wants to make flesh-smithing more common among those favored by the Throne. Not everyone wants or can afford to become a Praetorian, but having a significant portion of the elites of the realm take up other improvements gives Viserys one more leaver over them and it also makes them more useful on a battlefield.
     
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