I was thinking highlights too, start with the semifinals, four in each event on screen. How does that sound?
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Sounds good to me.
Any chance of alternative mounts in the semi-muggle and magical divisions?
Dinosaur jousting, anyone?
Dinosaur riding is not advanced enough to have made it into tourney riding. You actually need special training for that sort of thing after all and it is not much use in the jungles of the south where most of the dinos are. that said you can see magical mounts, particularly ones with templates.
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"Nobody said how many legs the mount has to have."
"Those are not legs, those are tentacles."
"Same difference."
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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And then, in the second year of the Imperial Calendar, Wisdom Qyburn, fresh from his introduction of self-shearing sheep, introduces the self-jousting mount...
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- Germany
Hopefully the Inqusition team makes a better showing this time.
I actually wanted to propose to have Qyburn enter with a team of Necrocrafts for advertisement purposes. He needs a successor after all. Sadly we don't have any high-level undead to serve as leader.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Maybe they can compete next year, alongside the Dinosaur riders.
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I mean, I do have sheets for a whole team:
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover In a world where magic has all but guttered to ashes, becoming the fare of charlatans, petty conjurers, and ragged illusionists, a mighty change is stirring. From small and fragile sparks a great blaze will be reborn and men will...
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
I suppose they could have come to fruition in the post-conquest months, though I figured we would want to keep them under wraps as covert assets?I mean, I do have sheets for a whole team:
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover In a world where magic has all but guttered to ashes, becoming the fare of charlatans, petty conjurers, and ragged illusionists, a mighty change is stirring. From small and fragile sparks a great blaze will be reborn and men will...
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*glances at the sheets*
*glances at the characters they are expies of*
I don't think covert is quite the way these people operate.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Good point, though I mainly meant in their ability to pass as living beings rather than Undead as the situation dictates.
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- Germany
They could always openly compete as undead in their true forms. No need to mention that they can blend in perfectly with the general population.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
By day, they fight for glory and honor, by night, they hunt thought criminals.
They are the V.I.P.s, Vampiric Imperial Police.
Damn, these Mirror programs practically write themselves.
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- Germany
Faction interlude in beta.
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- Argentina
Huh. We didn't even see this in Hellven...
But we can beat them at being dystopic!
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- Germany
For the record: I'm not the one who proposed to send a squad of unhinged vampires to explode the skulls of people who think bad thoughts.
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Now that you mention it, nobody said anything about exploding skulls but you...
Interlude MXCIII: For the Throne
For the Throne
Fifteenth Day of the Eighth Month 294 AC
Among the factions that flowered in that first spring of the Imperium the Dragon's men were at once the most prevalent and the hardest to spot for several related reasons Loyalty was broadly assumed across the full spectrum of interests and ideology. Those who were less than happy with the restructuring of power in the realm were more likely than not to be among the loudest in pledges of support and empty gestures, but slowly as water washes way sand to reveal the gleaming stone underneath were unveiled those who actually did place the inerests and desires of the throne foremost in all things.
Some of course were expected, one could not very well think that the Imperator's mother would vote elsewhise. Indeed Duke Mace Tyrell had been heard saying in his cups that this was the only reason the former queen had been given a ministerial posting. It lost him quite a few drinking companions. Another source of unflinching support was the Ministry of Administration as well as those governors with a past under the wing of the Censor. That was not to say that the other ministries were not doing their job as the law and throne had intended, but the administrators were perhaps the most likely to see the full tapestry of the Imperium beneath them and thus less likely to be jockeying for power or resources.
Both of the Companions who found their way into the Curia could be counted among the same ranks, for the sake of that companionship yes, but also the calculations of the new arrangement. The inquisition fearsome as it was could not be seen as anything but in perfect lockstep with the Imperator, that opposing counsel Garin Drekelis had to offer being given it was said behind closed doors, though no one was mad enough to try to eavesdrop at such doors as those were like to be. Lord Justice Vanor on the other hand made it clear that he was impartial in all things save his loyalty to the law and thus the throne from which it ultimately flowed.
One might be surprised perhaps to find Stannis Baratheon in such company, given his heritage, and even more surprised to discover how similar his reasons were to a man sundered him him by leagues and centuries. But so he was just the same, and no whisper about blood running thin and or changing skies among the lesser stormlords or indeed his peers was liable to change his mind. Indeed it was a matter of some debate in the Curia if he even noticed the rumors at all. After more than two months many in the Principium came to understand that Stannis Baratheon approached his duties, much as a battering ram approached the gate of a keep under siege, relentless and and impervious to the slings and arrows ot fate.
Contrasting in almost every other way besides their dedication to seeing the policies of the throne were put into practice was Lord Monford Velaryon. the new steward of the Imperial lands was only a middling administrator outside of matters of trade, but as he watched over the most well ordered part of the realm and was not hesitant about delegating duties the lack was not the least. There the Lord of the Tides truly shone was in his diplomatic skill. Given enough baubles of silver tongue and arcane insight anyone could seem inspiring on the surface, their words cunning and wise, but the true diplomat was more than an enchanter by proxy, they were someone who knew how to find common ground or at need how to make it. In this Monford Velaryon excelled beyond many of his peers.
Sandor Celgane and Tyrael the Tireless were among the most self-evident if those who would be counted in the voting block, neither had any true interest in the politics of the Curia and would simply append their voice to any cause that clearely served the Imperator.
More surprising to some, though not to those who had known him for any span of time Uthero Argalys was also a dragon's man in a quiet sort of way rather than joining the mercantile Dealmakers beside his fellow Braavosi. This was generally accepted to be a mark of personal friendship with the Imperator dating back to some sort of common history, though it was not oft spoken of as it involved the death of the last Argalys patriarch under tragic circumstances somehow.
If only one could find so simple a reason for the loyalty of House Martell and its kindred branch, thought many lords of Reach and Riverlands. the perfidious Dornishman was after all a figure of plays and poems, not to mention most of history before the coming of the Imperium. Surely they must be playing some tangled game for their use alone?
So long as such suspicions stayed as hushed whispers that fell to utter silence when he entered a room they seemed if anything to make Doran Martell smile even wider than his habitually cheerful mood would involve.
OOC: I decided to do a bit more of a top down presentation of this faction, almost like an informational post. What do you guys thing? Better or worse than the other version? Not yet edited.
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Look at those four. Do you honestly think there will be survivors?
Good night guys, see you tomorrow as we roll up some duels and jousts (simplified) then deal with the semifinals.
Suggestions for the lists are as ever welcome.
Suggestions for the lists are as ever welcome.
