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

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Also lowkey I kind of want the Painted Table in the military academy or something. I don't expect a mechanical benefits whatsoever, it's just a neat piece of military history.
 
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  • [X] Plan No Recruitment
    -[X] Lanna has willfully committed the same acts as Tywin and will be found guilty like him. Her reasoning and justifications do not matter.
    -[X] Ask further questions:
    --[X] Immediate intelligence and active plots:
    ---[X] Are they aware of any active plots against us, set in motion by them or others?
    ---[X] What contingencies are in place for the case of the defeat of House Lannister?
    ---[X] What had their intelligence gathering efforts learned about us which may be of interest to us, such as exploitable weaknesses?
    ---[X] What other schemes were they planning or preparing?
    ---[X] All information about supernatural factions on Planetos, they plans, goals, active agents and so on.
    ----[X] Including but not limited to the Deep Ones, Devils, Others, Court of Stars remnants, cults, etc.
    --[X] Long-term information and curiosity:
    ---[X] Comprehensive listing and locations of all safehouses, weapon caches, artifact storages and anything of that nature.
    ---[X] What was the nature of their deal with the Formians?
    ---[X] What exactly were they trying to accomplish in Qarth and what do they know about the Quartheen warlocks?
    ---[X] What was the content of the infernal scroll read by Tywin and from whom did he receive it?
    ---[X] What factions were they dealing with in the Planes aside from the Formians, and what were their relations? Good or bad?
    ---[X] A full listing of any intelligence assets they have cultivated, including spies, paid informants, foreign contacts, etc.
    ---[X] A comprehensive accounting of everything they stole from Dragonstone, and the exact purpose each item was put to use for.
    --[X] Loot and lore:
    ---[X] What equipment did they have on them?
    ---[X] What was the exact purpose of the arcane machinery installed in Casterly Rock?
    ---[X] What information do they have retrieved from their journey to the outskirts of Valyria?
    ---[X] Are they aware of any other Gates or planar rifts aside of those under Casterly Rock?
    ---[X] Are they aware of other strategic resources in Westeros, such as Mythral, Adamantine or other rare metals?
    ---[X] How did they make their golems?
    [X] Ask a questions
    -[X] What equipment did they have on them
    -[X] Were Gerion and Lanna actually planning to defect before they too were ensnared in the bloodline curse
    -[x]What was the content of the infernal scroll?
    -[x] Were there others in the family that wanted/planned to stop Tywin from going too far.
    [X] Interrogation Questions
    -[X] Will she and her husband serve us faithfully?
    -[X] Were Gerion and Lanna actually planning to defect before they too were ensnared in the bloodline curse
    -[x]What was the content of the infernal scroll?
    -[X] What active plots did they have set in motion?
    -[X] What passive schemes did they have prepared?
    -[X] Comprehensive listing and locations of all safehouses, weapon caches, anything of that nature.
    -[X] What equipment did they have on them
    -[X] Everything they're aware of regarding supernatural factions in Westeros and Essos
    --[X] Including but not limited to the Deep Ones, Devils, Others, etc.
    -[X] What exactly were they trying to accomplish in Qarth?
    -[X] What factions were they dealing with in the Planes aside from the Formians, and what were their relations? Good or bad?
    -[X] What was the nature of their deal with the Formians
    -[X] What had their intelligence gathering efforts learned about us which may be of interest to us, such as exploitable weaknesses?
    -[X] A full listing of any intelligence assets they have cultivated, including spies, paid informants, foreign contacts, etc.
    [X] Azel, if I haven't done that already.
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Also i remember reading about tywin telling pycelle to shut up about that letter after the previous grandmaester's assasination after the tragedy of summerhall
Can we also check how tywin is connected with the conspiracy of the citadel
 
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Part MMMDCCXXI: Wealth Beyond Gold
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    • Wealth Beyond Gold​

    First Day of the Fifth Month 294 AC

    You do not trust them, Lanna and Gerion, it is as simple that. While you have in your company those who have committed crimes every bit as terrible, if not worse, you cannot trust their good sense to have dug so deep a hole and pulled the hole in after them, and neither can you trust them stripped of the name and House for which they had sacrificed so much and so many.

    For his part Garin is just content that he will not have to watch them, a task few among the Inquisition could be certain of managing given Lanna's magic, and while Malarys would have been more inclined to give them a chance to serve on the basis of archmages being rare in this age of the world he does not care enough to argue the point long. Bloodraven keeps his own counsel close, though he does not seem displeased at the answer. He too finds their excuses lacking.

    And so it is decided, Gerion and Lanna Lannister shall be judged alongside Tywin Lannister and with him found guilty. Still, that you shall see them die does not mean you have no questions, quite the opposite since you can only ask for so brief a time.

    Thankfully there are not many immediate plots and plans that could imperil your realm and no continuances for the swift decapitation of House Lannister in the works. By the end Tywin had no allies to speak of, only the stone-born mercenaries who betrayed him as soon as they were able to. The one troubling thing you find in the mind of Lanna Lannister in that regard is a list of names she had gathered mostly by traveling the Broken Heavens, names of the celestial spirits that had aligned themselves with your realm and which by those names could be summoned and bound to serve as slaves and saboteurs. Thankfully she had been willfully slow in gathering that information as it was only bound at the command of Tywin that she was willing to countenance such a plan. Good that she had some shred of morals you suppose...

    "Could we trace back where the Lannisters got those names?" Garin asks urgently. There is among their number the names of two Legion Archons who had joined the Inquisition, only as soldiers not full inquisitors, but still they could have been a danger.

    "Some of them perhaps, but certainly not all. Such brokers as trade in True Names are not lightly snared in turn, and even if they were they likely have their own contingencies against having their minds plundered," Bloodraven replies, sounding less than pleased himself. "There is also the matter of jurisdiction, we should do well to tread lightly in Heaven's Shore for the moment..."

    "And for a long while to come," you finish. The city, tarnished as it is, serves as a jewel in the black crown of Asmodeus, the Lord of the Ninth, and is unlikely to take trespass lightly. "For now we shall have to take administrative action to keep those whose names we know to be unsafe away from sensitive information."

    The other piece of information about foreign actors you learn from Lanna's mind makes for a more troubling hearing. Apparently the coast of the Westerlands is a favored hunting ground for the Deep Ones, not just for feeding, but also for experimentation and slave taking. Dozens of minor mages of various sources and others who were for some reason interesting to Illithid scholars were simply vanished from their beds and replaced with shapechangers who would then stage a more conventional disappearance or even a death. Something to watch for, and more importantly something to warn the populace against as much as can be done because your agents cannot be everywhere.

    Also of note are the locations of several safe houses and caches of lore and enchanted objects that will be of use to the Inquisition. Some of them appear to be set up to allow spies to function better in cities well placed against magical infiltrators, like Oldtown, where others are off plane safe houses, including one Lanna and Gerion had prepared for themselves and their children before the bloodline curse bound them.

    Then there is the matter of the formians...

    "Tywin did not merely trade access to the altar at the last, his first deal was for right of passage into the Westerlands. They had marked out no less than seventeen locations where they wished to build colonies, mostly to harvest wood and grow food under the open sky all over the Westerlands. All of these locations are secluded far from prime farming land as men would count such things, deep in the western mountains. What is most notable is that three of them are already in operation, two in the lands belonging to Casterly Rock and one in those of Castamere, or at least they were last night," Bloodraven pauses and motions to Garin.

    "I scouted them myself, the formians withdrew at some point last night, leaving behind their terrace crops and tree farms. One would be hard-pressed to even tell who had been working there."

    "How inaccessible are the locations?" you prompt. It would be best to have the Legion secure them against a return of their former masters as well as obtaining samples of the plants. Perhaps you might even settle them yourself. It would be s a shame to leave the work go to waste and the fields to fall fallow.

    "Enough so that you would struggle to get anything larger than a party of skilled woodsmen there in good time, though of course we have gates to go around such obstacles. The main trouble will be supplying them."

    What do you secure the abandoned Formian Farming outposts with?

    [] Write in

    OOC: As I suspected might be the case there is just too much stuff for one update. The Lannister assets in enchantment and intelligence will not be revealed yet since I want to abstract them into the new system directly, you will have access to them starting next month.
     
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    • What if we made another deal with the Formians? We don't want them to make actual colonies in the Westerlands, but if they want to buy some land and farm it that should be fine as long as they pay their taxes and don't mind-control people.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Wealth Beyond Gods ​

    First Day of the Fifth Month 294 AC

    You do not trust them, Lanna and Gerion, it is as simple that. While you have in your company those who have committed crimes every bit as terrible, if not worse. You cannot trust their good sense now that you know they have dug so deep a hole and pulled the hole in after them, and neither can you trust them stripped of the name and House for which they had sacrificed so much and so many.

    For his part, Garin is just content that he will not have to watch them, a task few among the inquisition could be certain of managing given Lanna's magic, and while Malarys would have been more inclined to give them a chance to serve on the basis of arch-mages being rare in this age of the world, he does not care enough to argue the point for long. Bloodraven keeps his own counsel close, though he does not seem displeased at the answer. He too finds their excuses lacking.

    And so it is decided, Gerion and Lanna Lannister shall be judged alongside Tywin Lannister and with him found guilty. Still, that you shall see them die does not mean you have no questions, quite the opposite since you can only ask for so brief a time.
    Thankfully, there are not many immediate plots and plans that could imperil your realm and no contingencies for the swift decapitation of House Lannister in the works. By the end, Tywin had no allies to speak of, only the stone-born mercenaries who betrayed him as soon as they were able to. The one troubling thing you find in the mind of Lanna Lannister in that regard is a list of names she had gathered, mostly by traveling the Broken Heavens, names of the celestial spirits that had aligned themselves with your realm and which by those names could be summoned and bound to serve as slaves and saboteurs. Thankfully, she had been willfully slow in gathering that information as it was only at the command of Tywin that she was willing to countenance such a plan. Good that she had some shred of morals you suppose...

    "Could we trace back where the Lannisters got those names?" Garin asks urgently. There is among their number the names of two Legion Archons who had joined the Inquisition, only as soldiers not full inquisitors, but still they could have been a danger.

    "Some of them, perhaps, but certainly not all. Such brokers as trade in True Names are not lightly snared in turn, and even if they were they likely have their own contingencies against having their minds plundered," Bloodraven replies, sounding less than pleased himself. "There is also the matter of jurisdiction, we should do well to tread lightly in Heaven's Shore for the moment..."

    "And for a long while to come," you finish. The city, tarnished as it is, serves as a jewel in the black crown of Asmodeous, and the Lord of the Ninth is unlikely to take trespass lightly. "For now we shall have to take administrative action to keep those whose names we know to be unsafe away from sensitive information."

    The other piece of information about foreign actors you learn from Lanna's mind makes for a more troubling hearing. Apparently, the Western coast of the Westerlands is a favored hunting ground for the Deep Ones, not just for feeding, but also for experimentation and slave taking. Dozens of minor mages of various sources and others who were for some reason interesting to Illithid scholars were simply vanished from their beds and replaced with shapechangers who would then stage a more conventional disappearance or even a death. Something to watch for, and more importantly something to warn the populace against as much as can be done, because your agents cannot be everywhere.

    Also of note are the locations of several safe houses and caches of lore and enchanted objects that will be of use to the inquisition. Some of them appear to be set up to allow spies to function better in cities well prepared against magical infiltrators, like Old Town where others are off plane safe houses, including one Lanna and Gerion had prepared for themselves and their children before the bloodline curse bound them.

    Then there is the matter of the Formians...

    "Tywin did not merely trade access to the altar at the last. His first deal was for right of passage into the Westerlands. They had marked out no less than seventeen locations where they wished to build colonies, mostly to harvest wood and grow food under the open sky all over the Westerlands. All of these locations are secluded far from prime farming land as men would count such things, deep in the western mountains. What is most notable is that three of them are already in operation, two in the lands belonging to Casterly Rock and one in those of Castamere, or at least they were last night." Bloodraven pauses and motions to Garin.

    "I scouted them myself. The formians withdrew at some point last night, leaving behind their terrace crops and tree farms. One would be hard pressed to even tell who had been working there."

    "How inaccessible are the locations?" you prompt. It would be best to have the legions secure them against a return of their former masters as well as obtaining samples of the plants. Perhaps you might even settle them yourself. It would be a shame to leave the work to go the waste and the fields to fall fallow.

    "Enough so that you would struggle to get anything larger than a party of skilled woodsmen there in good time, though of course we have gates to go around such obstacles. The main trouble will be supply."

    What do you secure the abandoned Formian Farming outposts with?

    [] Write in

    OOC: As I suspected might be the case there is just too much stuff for one update. The Lannister assets in enchantment and intelligence will not be revealed yet since I want to abstract them into the new system directly, you will have access to them starting next month. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
     
    We're going to need to send people to inspect every site, even those that weren't supposed to be in operation yet. Just because the Lannisters did not believe the Formians were actively moving to those locations does not mean that is the truth, and we do not want to have to deal with multiple infestations in the future because we didn't nip that shit in the bud ASAP.

    Easiest and fastest thing to do would be to assign a squad of Erinyes and Watchmoles to it. They can all use Greater Teleport to find the sites, then while the Erinyes scout the areas from the air the Watchmoles will carefully check for underground colonies using their various abilities.

    That said, I'm not opposed to doing business with the Formians if they can come to an arrangement we find acceptable. Either we can pay people to work the Formian farms and sell the produce to them, or allow them to staff them directly, for which they pay us rent of some kind.
     
    [X] Plan Observe & Collect
    -[X] Load up the Dawnrunner with undead, a mix of Black Wardens and Lindworms, all controlled by molds, and drop them off at the sites to guard and watch them.
    -[X] A few Investigators, Watchmoles and Vigilant Shadowcats will scout each site.
    -[X] At the same time, take samples from the plants and any other thing left behind and gather some rock samples to analyze what they had been doing with Touch of History.
    -[X] The Inquisition will establish a command post within 50 miles of each site with a Whispering Brazier and at least one Nectroic Mold to stay in contact with the guard team.
    -[X] Also inspect all other sites and the surroundings in case the Formians had been active there without Tywins knowledge.
    -[X] Further actions will be decided after you talked with the Formian Queen.
    -[X] Ask House Adjar and the envoys of the Sultana what they know about Formians, especially their political Modus Operandi, desires, economy and similar information that would be relevant to evaluate any deals that might be made with them.
     
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    Azel said:
    [X] Plan Observe & Collect
    -[X] Load up the Dawnrunner with undead, a mix of Black Wardens and Lindworms, all controlled by molds, and drop them off at the sites to guard and watch them.
    -[X] At the same time, take samples from the plants and any other thing left behind and gather some rock samples to analyze what they had been doing with Touch of History.
    -[X] The Inquisition will establish a command post within 50 miles of each site with a Whispering Brazier and at least one Nectroic Mold to stay in contact with the guard team.
    -[X] Also inspect all other sites and the surroundings in case the Formians had been active there without Tywins knowledge.
    -[X] Further actions will be decided after you talked with the Formian Queen.
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    Can you specify that we send Watchmoles to each site? They are by far our best assets for underground scouting. Between the enhanced Burrowing, Tremorsense, and Mindsight, they should be able to quickly find new colonies that are hidden deep beneath the earth.

    [X] Azel
     
    mmgaballah said:
    Just use titans tools to carve out a few new roads and maintain paths
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    Seems a bit excessive for locations that likely has experienced an organized retreat, meaning that we will likely not find anything of real value there. Though I do we believe that we should inspect each location throughly using mages and inquisitors to insure that nothing bad is there or prevent the return from a possibly hostile force
     
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