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

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I was planning to update about now, but the tooth pain just got really bad, like 'I don't know how I am going to sleep' bad. I really do not feel I can write to any reasonable standard of quality.
 
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DragonParadox said:
I was planning to update about now, but the tooth pain just got really bad, likke 'I don't know how I am going to sleep' bad. I really do not feel I can write to any reasonable standard of quality.
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I've been told that sucking on an Aspirin can help with tooth oain, but I'm not sure how much I believe that. It might just be that the awful taste helps distract you from the pain.
 
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I've been told that sucking on an Aspirin can help with tooth oain, but I'm not sure how much I believe that. It might just be that the awful taste helps distract you from the pain.
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You know as a bit of an odd confession, when I was a kid I used to chew my aspirin because I liked the taste. I have not done that in a long time. Might take the chance to try. I mean if nothing else I will at least get a placebo.
 
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You know as a bit of an odd confession, when I was a kid I used to chew my aspirin because I liked the taste. I have not done that in a long time. Might take the chance to try. I mean if nothing else I will at least get a placebo.
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I remember children's chewable aspirin tasting like candy, before my mom threw them all out for fear of causing Reyes syndrome (I think that's what it was called).

Or are you talking about the regular, so bitter it'll make you go cross-eyed aspirin? In that case, you might be a crazy person.
 
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I remember children's chewable aspirin tasting like candy, before my mom threw them all out for fear of causing Reyes syndrome (I think that's what it was called).

Or are you talking about the regular, so bitter it'll make you go cross-eyed aspirin? In that case, you might be a crazy person.
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Regular old aspirin, though it might just be a country thing, I do not recall aspirin over here being bitter, weird and sort of sour yes, bitter no.
 
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You know as a bit of an odd confession, when I was a kid I used to chew my aspirin because I liked the taste. I have not done that in a long time. Might take the chance to try. I mean if nothing else I will at least get a placebo.
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In a nutshell, Asprin works by temporarily stopping the body's function to express inflammation. This is done by inactivating one of the enzymes that controls the effects for swelling (sebsequently this is the one most people are here for) and creation of blood clots (why people really close to having heart attacks are taking this. It's also the outlier among the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs for preventing clot formation/allowed for use on cardiac patients). If you have problems bleeding or planning to go on extreme sports with a likelyhood of injury- I wouldn't recommend taking aspirin.

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I remember children's chewable aspirin tasting like candy, before my mom threw them all out for fear of causing Reyes syndrome (I think that's what it was called).
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Reye Syndrome is one of the rare side effects for taking aspirin. Generally it's found among teens and children after having viral infections, even then its mechanisms haven't been exactly pinned down. What we do know is that the liver's filtrating properties are bogged down by having its cellular components damaged. Something ranging from about high concentrations of metabolized asprin- salicylates causing damage as it passes through the liver, to said salicylates interfering energy production needed for liver function. Anyway end result- you get unfiltered toxins eventually making its way to your brain.

Put some ice on the spot of the toothache. Ever tried chewing on cloves? The compounds in them works as a pain reliever. Chewing on garlic has an antiseptic effect. While rinsing with a teaspoon salt water on a cup of warm water or rinsing equal parts hydrogen peroxide and water mouthwash cleans the area what your toothbrush can't clean in a tooth ache.

If you suspect anything going wrong, see your dentist/doctor. Can't have Planetos break down cause it's one true god ain't working no more.
 
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I suppose the leadership of this station are Mind Blanked, aren't they? And a divination targeting the next actions of the closest guards to our target will probably be foiled by a Mind Blank on the leader?
 
[X] Strike for the Gate Room, highest risk for highest reward

Go big! Literally, we can throw the biggest low level spell at what should be a cramped area for big AoE damage on whoever comes through.
 
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Out of the Pan, Into the Fire ​

Eleventh Day of the Ninth Month 294 AC

Stone will work, but stone is 'loud', a spell of the sixth circle with the tang of the divine, or the draconic, both equally out of place in this place. For the flash of an instant you consider fire, a blaze so hot it could render the onrushing torrent to smoke and vapor, but you discard that as well. They would be prepared against flame, perhaps even such flame as you can conjure, so instead you whistle a song of the waves. The taste of brine so close to the tang of blood fills your mouth and a wave rises before you like the tendril of some far off sea.

The liquid spills harmlessly into its depths, not that you have time to cheer.

"They know we are here, there is no way they would miss that!" Garin motions to the corridor, the wall, the activated spigots. "The question is are they going to try to fight us or evacuate? I think the latter would be quite the embarrassment."

You shake your head sharply. "This is not the Bazaar of Beggars, they don't put people here as punishment detail. They are going to do both, hope to hand our heads to the Sultan for a prize, but at the very least not lose their treasure."

"Then they have moved the stones?" Ser Richard curses.

"No," you reply, thinking over the documents you have from the shaitans. "Wardstones are harder to move by gate than most things. They create destructive resonances if you keep them too close for days on end, that is why they keep from in another chamber. We need to intercept them on route along here..."

So saying, you conjure an illusory plan of the fortress, or at least as much of it as you could conceive from what your thrall said of it before his demise. Down a short corridor through the guardroom with its line of arcane launchers, then down the main air-shaft of the fortress to the gate room buried deep in its core.

You are six levels below the vault and seven above the gate in what you had come to realize is a position deliberately equidistant to both so now you have to guess what the officers in command will do. If they plan to move the wardstones right away, it would make the most sense to try to intercept them en route, where you would only have to worry about their escort. If they are planning to keep them in place and wait for reinforcements from the Brass City, then you should attack the vault directly.

Or you could try to take and neutralize the gate room, practically guaranteeing that you will be fighting those reinforcements but also giving yourself far more time to claim the wardstones. With only the three of you against whatever the first wave of response is likely to be that could well end in disaster, whereas the other two options are more the risk of your prize.

Which path do you choose?

[] Attack the Vault, the officers in charge are more likely to react defensively given their posting

[] Try to intercept the wardstones en route, given the sudden two-pronged attack they are far more likely to want to secure the stones

[] Strike for the Gate Room, highest risk for highest reward

OOC: I can now reveal your social rolls were not as good as might have been hoped. You guys ended up in the 'suspicious guests room', hence why there was a trapped corridor right outside. You could still have avoided the trap if Garin had made his spot check on the run, but he did not so you are not in the best position right now.
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Made a few additional edits to the chapter, DP.
 
If we didn't have to worry about impeded magic and maybe had a couple more people with us, I would favor the gate room, but that's asking to be overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Attacking the vault would not only expose us to more deadly traps and defenses, it would also risk bogging us down for long enough that more reinforcements could arrive than we could handle.

[X] Try to intercept the wardstones en route, given the sudden two-pronged attack they are far more likely to want to secure the stones
 
Er... so I just noticed a giant plot hole in this arc, one that would be spoilers to explain and which messes with how I worked out the timer on the extraction. I might have to redo the last two updates.
 
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