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

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firefrog600 said:
I recently was rereading everything and decided to read the comments as well and just thought it might annoy some people. If people don't want me to like their comments or laugh or anything due to constant alerts I'll stop with theirs?
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As a rule of thumb, people who don't want to be bothered by rating alerts turn them off. So I wouldn't worry about that.
 
offhand I haven't read this since a little before the reconquest I mean pacification of westeros. with the space stuff would dragonparadox allow us to take pictures of the planet and give us a world map or as much a map that isn't shrouded by any mystic stuff? I know obviously no such thing exists canonically but there are some fanon maps that are usable. Unless all of this is impossible due to qm fiat or the planet not really being observable the same way from space due to this being a high fantasy world in quest.
 
firefrog600 said:
offhand I haven't read this since a little before the reconquest I mean pacification of westeros. with the space stuff would dragonparadox allow us to take pictures of the planet and give us a world map or as much a map that isn't shrouded by any mystic stuff? I know obviously no such thing exists canonically but there are some fanon maps that are usable. Unless all of this is impossible due to qm fiat or the planet not really being observable the same way from space due to this being a high fantasy world in quest.
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You could do that in principle yes, serpent stone allows that sort of image storage. For that matter so does the version 1 eyeball of anyone able to cast Silent Image, but the stone is more likely to be accurate.
 
It's not much, but it's what I've got. Hopefully DP can work with it if no one else has anything to add. I tried to come up with something, but I'm hitting straight up writer's block.

[X] "Citizens of the Imperium..."
-[X] Viserys will share the news of Everfire Dale's destruction by the Efreeti, vile entities from beyond the mortal sphere. They struck at us in retaliation for victories we won against them in an ongoing war, a war we are fighting alongside our allies, the Shaitan and the Djinn.
--[X] The loss of Everfire Dale, the industry it housed, and more importantly, the citizens who called it home, is a serious blow against the Imperium, but we will recover from this setback, and we will be stronger for the hardship. Those lost will be remembered and avenged in the fullness of time, but for now we will ask our citizens to be strong in the face of adversity and to continue to strive for a better future, one where they need not fear their lives or the lives of their friends and families may be snatched away by pitiless monsters.
 
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Goldfish said:
It's not much, but it's what I've got. Hopefully DP can work with it if no one else has anything to add. I tried to come up with something, but I'm hitting straight up writer's block.

[X] "Citizens of the Imperium..."
-[X] Viserys will share the news of Everfire Dale's destruction by the Efreeti, malevolent entities from beyond the mortal sphere. They struck at us in retaliation for victories we won against them in an ongoing war, a war we are fighting alongside our allies, the Shaitan and the Djinn.
--[X] The loss of Everfire Dale, the industry it housed, and more importantly, the citizens who called it home, is a serious blow against the Imperium, but we will recover from this setback, and we will be stronger for the lessons learned in the aftermath. Those lost will be remembered and avenged in the fullness of time, but for now we will ask our citizens to be strong in the face of adversity and to continue to strive for a better future, one where they need not fear their lives or the lives of their friends and families may be snatched away by pitiless monsters.
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Shy away from "lessons learned" here. Even if it's true, we can't admit that this was because we made a mistake. That's a ripe opening for political dissidents and enemy agents to raise an outcry against us.

Instead spin this as a vile, atrocious attack. Hyperfocus on the evils of the Efreeti, and how this blow will be avenged. The usual us vs them schtick that's served us all these years.
 
Can't y'all just rely on DP writing a speech?

Sure, it's not the bombastic style of Azel/Crake, but DP was always good at writing speeches.
Just give him the cliffnotes you'd want Viserys to hit.

Either way better than to have him try and 'fix' a subpar speech.
 
Goldfish said:
It's not much, but it's what I've got. Hopefully DP can work with it if no one else has anything to add. I tried to come up with something, but I'm hitting straight up writer's block.

[X] "Citizens of the Imperium..."
-[X] Viserys will share the news of Everfire Dale's destruction by the Efreeti, vile entities from beyond the mortal sphere. They struck at us in retaliation for victories we won against them in an ongoing war, a war we are fighting alongside our allies, the Shaitan and the Djinn.
--[X] The loss of Everfire Dale, the industry it housed, and more importantly, the citizens who called it home, is a serious blow against the Imperium, but we will recover from this setback, and we will be stronger for the hardship. Those lost will be remembered and avenged in the fullness of time, but for now we will ask our citizens to be strong in the face of adversity and to continue to strive for a better future, one where they need not fear their lives or the lives of their friends and families may be snatched away by pitiless monsters.
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Much better. 👍

[X] Goldfish
 
Duesal said:
Shy away from "lessons learned" here. Even if it's true, we can't admit that this was because we made a mistake. That's a ripe opening for political dissidents and enemy agents to raise an outcry against us.

Instead spin this as a vile, atrocious attack. Hyperfocus on the evils of the Efreeti, and how this blow will be avenged. The usual us vs them schtick that's served us all these years.
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egoo said:
Can't y'all just rely on DP writing a speech?

Sure, it's not the bombastic style of Azel/Crake, but DP was always good at writing speeches.
Just give him the cliffnotes you'd want Viserys to hit.

Either way better than to have him try and 'fix' a subpar speech.
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That's what I'm trying to do, just establish a barebones framework for DP to work with.
 
[X] Goldfish

Huh I'm pleasantly surprised we didn't get some more recalcitrant lords haven't seen this as a great opportunity to start plotting rebellion now that our might has been broken!!! (yes I know we still have dragons, and a ton of PCs and maybe people are doing shit in the background but my expectations are looowww)
 
A_Somebody said:
[X] Goldfish

Huh I'm pleasantly surprised we didn't get some more recalcitrant lords haven't seen this as a great opportunity to start plotting rebellion now that our might has been broken!!! (yes I know we still have dragons, and a ton of PCs and maybe people are doing shit in the background but my expectations are looowww)
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As a note if any of them did try to plot rebellion they would not announce it to the world. That said most of them ar not under any sort of wards and the House of Mirrors finds no signs of rebellion in their near future,
 
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  • [X] "Citizens of the Imperium..."
    -[X] Viserys will share the news of Everfire Dale's destruction by the Efreeti, vile entities from beyond the mortal sphere. They struck at us in retaliation for victories we won against them in an ongoing war, a war we are fighting alongside our allies, the Shaitan and the Djinn.
    --[X] The loss of Everfire Dale, the industry it housed, and more importantly, the citizens who called it home, is a serious blow against the Imperium, but we will recover from this setback, and we will be stronger for the hardship. Those lost will be remembered and avenged in the fullness of time, but for now we will ask our citizens to be strong in the face of adversity and to continue to strive for a better future, one where they need not fear their lives or the lives of their friends and families may be snatched away by pitiless monsters.
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Part MMMDCCCXLVIII: Words Across the World
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    • Words Across the World ​

    Fourth Day of the Tenth Month 294 AC

    "Citizens of the Imperium, I come before you today with news darker than any we have had to late. I come to you with news of destruction and devastation by a foe as relentless as it is ruthless. Slavers they are under a master who would be lord of all, the mad Sultan upon the Brazen Throne who fights not only against us but against our allies, the Djinn and the Shaitan, beyond this mortal Sphere. They are wreckers of hopes and of lives. Everfire Dale is no more, burned to ash and cinder, melted in the fires of the enemy's malice." You pause for a long and somber moment. Not all will understand the significance, perhaps not even most, but it is a rare man or woman, even in the more distant cities of the realm, who never acquired some work of craft made in the Dale, be it steel tool, coil of rope, or small ubiquitous alchemical vial.

    "The manufactories can be rebuilt, the furnaces kindled again," you proclaim with utter surety. "Yet the lives that were lost are not so lightly restored. All across the Stepstones and beyond, this night people are mourning kith and kin lost to us, and to them go now my most sincere condolences. All across the Imperium there is sorrow and fear. I shall not blame the latter any more than the former, for this is a blow as from clear skies yet I shall remind you all this tonight, this blow was itself a retaliation for the victories we and our allies have already scored against the enemy in his own realm. This butchery is not great offense nor proof of mastery, though the agents of the Sultan will seek to make it seem so. This is a wounded beast lashing out. Perilous it may be, and much did it cost us, but in the fullness of time we shall have justice for the Dale."

    Again you pause to let the weight of your proclamation sink in, then you raise your head slightly, looking into the mirror and meeting the unseen eyes of your audience fully. "Dawn shall yet come and it shall be all the brighter for the night we have endured. Do not lose hope of a better future, one where fear of such as the Sultan's slaves are naught but memory. "

    There is no applause in the recording chamber, as the studio has come to be called, but then even if you could hear your distant audience, you do not expect that you would hear any of them. It is too early yet to feel any joy, too soon to know if the promises you have made shall bear fruit.

    ***​

    "Do you have all that? Anymore questions, ladies, gentlemen?" Your study is filled with the agents of various new made newspapers, all but the silver-haired bespectacled fellow who speaks for the times gawking slightly, shocked at having gotten an Imperial audience on practically no notice. You imagine it will take a while for most of them to realize that they stand here as far more than their own selves, that they are the surrogate for the questions and concerns of hundreds of thousands, millions. Of course, once they do they will also realize the sort of power they hold by mediating information and you are not sure you are entirely looking forward to that revelation. For now all you get is nods and gracious approval for making the time to take questions from all of the about both the attack and its implications

    Then a late question comes from the Gulltown Sentinel. "Your Majesty, in the wake of this tragedy will some manufacturing capacity start to be developed west of the Narrow Sea?"

    Maybe they are starting to pull on the right line after all... You look more closely at the red-haired young man, not much older than you, who clasps and unclasps his hands in his lap. He knows he has asked an uncomfortable question, but he really wants that article to shine.

    What do you reply?

    [] Explain that you preferred Gogossos and Westhaven for the greater security and access to trained manpower

    [] Shut down the question, it would not take much effort

    [] Write in

    OOC: Behold what you have wrought... reporters.
     
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    • DragonParadox said:
    Words Across the World ​

    Fourth Day of the Tenth Month 294 AC

    "Citizens of the Imperium, I come before you today with news darker than any we have had to late. I come to you with news of destruction and devastation by a foe as relentless as it is ruthless. Slavers they are under a master who would be lord of all, the mad Sultan upon the Brazen Throne who fights not only against us but against our allies, the Djinn and the Shaitan, beyond this mortal Sphere. They are wreckers of hopes and of lives. Everfire Dale is no more, burned to ash and cinder, melted in the fires of the enemy's malice." You pause for a long and somber moment. Not all will understand the significance, perhaps not even most, but it is a rare man or woman, even in the more distant cities of the realm, who never acquired some work of craft made in the Dale, be it steel tool, coil of rope, or small ubiquitous alchemical vial.

    "The manufactories can be rebuilt, the furnaces kindled again," you proclaim with utter surety. "Yet the lives that were lost are not so lightly restored. All across the Stepstones and beyond, this night people are mourning kith and kin lost to us, and to them go now my most sincere condolences. All across the Imperium there is sorrow and fear. I shall not blame the latter any more than the former, for this is a blow as from clear skies yet I shall remind you all this tonight, this blow was itself a retaliation for the victories we and our allies have already scored against the enemy in his own realm. This butchery is not great offense nor proof of mastery, though the agents of the Sultan will seek to make it seem so. This is a wounded beast lashing out. Perilous it may be, and much did it cost us, but in the fullness of time we shall have justice for the Dale."

    Again you pause to let the weight of your proclamation sink in, then you raise your head slightly, looking into the mirror and meeting the unseen eyes of your audience fully. "Dawn shall yet come and it shall be all the brighter for the night we have endured. Do not lose hope of a better future, one where fear of such as the Sultan's slaves are naught but memory. "

    There is no applause in the recording chamber, as the studio has come to be called, but then even if you could hear your distant audience, you do not expect that you would hear any of them. It is too early yet to feel any joy, too soon to know if the promises you have made shall bear fruit.

    ***​

    "Do you have all that? Anymore questions, ladies, gentlemen?" Your study is filled with the agents of various new made newspapers, all but the silver-haired bespectacled fellow who speaks for the times gawking slightly, shocked at having gotten an Imperial audience on practically no notice. You imagine it will take a while for most of them to realize that they stand here as far more than their own selves, that they are the surrogate for the questions and concerns of hundreds of thousands, millions. Of course, once they do they will also realize the sort of power they hold by mediating information and you are not sure you are entirely looking forward to that revelation. For now all you get is nods and gracious approval for making the time to take questions from all of the about both the attack and its implications

    Then a late question comes from the Gulltown Sentinel. "Your Majesty, in the wake of this tragedy will some manufacturing capacity start to be developed west of the Narrow Sea?"

    Maybe they are starting to pull on the right line after all... You look more closely at the red-haired young man, not much older than you, who clasps and unclasps his hands in his lap. He knows he has asked an uncomfortable question, but he really wants that article to shine.

    What do you reply?

    [] Explain that you preferred Gogossos and Westhaven for the greater security and access to trained manpower

    [] Shut down the question, it would not take much effort

    [] Write in

    OOC: Behold what you have wrought.. reporters. Not yet edited.
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    Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Then a late question comes from the Gulltown Sentinel. "Your Majesty in the wake of this tragedy will some manufacturing capacity start to be developed west of the Narrow Sea?"
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    [X] Explain that you preferred Gogossos and Westheaven for the greater security and access to trained manpower for the first steps of the rebuild
    -[X] In the future you will likely keep the industry less concentrated than you did in Everyfire Dale, so military bases like Harrenhall and the Eyrie are very likely to recieve similar manufactures and hangars within the next year.

    Everfire Dale was, in some sense, a relic of our low-territory start.
    We had to cram all that production capacity on Greygallows (I think that was the name of our island?) and later it was convenient to just upgrade the place rather than build more like it through the Empire.
    No more of that though, we learned a lesson on eggs and baskets here.
     
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    [X] Explain that we expect to eventually have manufactories throughout the Imperium. Currently, however, we are limited by a lack of trained personnel, resources, time, and most importantly, the need to properly secure such critical assets from enemy action.
     
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