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

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While you're working out a shopping list, how much to bring back Valyria Candles and permanency this as some kind of everburning item? Maybe with Velen's help.
 
I can just imagine the pen dragon being excited about what being a librarian/assistant and the uses we can put it towards... and then promptly deflating when we end up making it the biographer for Viserys, with instructions to "make it snappy."
 
cyrileom said:
I can just imagine the pen dragon being excited about what being a librarian/assistant and the uses we can put it towards... and then promptly deflating when we end up making it the biographer for Viserys, with instructions to "make it snappy."
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Given the stuff we get up and what we just did. He should be happy about it. I mean the guy struck me more as a historian and cultural expert than an arcane knowledge fanatic. And we've been making some pretty big waves as an after thought.
 
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  • [X] Speech Azel
    -[X] "Is this the way Mantarys greets a Dragonlord?"
    -[X] Land in full view, but with some distance to make it clear that you are not going to assault them.
    -[X] "I am Viserys Targaryen, last of the Dragonlords and I have come to bring news of a great victory. The great serpent demon was slain. The Listener and his ilk lie dead and broken in their former sanctum, which will never be seen in this city again. The storm and it's denizens where cast down. Even now, the golden beings which are my allies are striking down the fiends and their allies remaining in the skies and on the streets."
    -[X] "But I did not come here to lay waste to this city. I do not wish to see Mantarys burned and pillaged after all the blood I spilled for it. So gather your wits and put an end to this, stop the riots. No more need to die, but those who resist will.
    -[X] "As we speak, my allies are arming and organizing the slaves to aid you in these tasks. This I decreed and none shall defy it."
    -[X] "So go now and do as you where told. While you do so, I shall bring the minotaurs to heel."
    -[X] "No one will obstruct you in these tasks. No one will try to cancel my orders. Should some try to do so... " Point towards the missing tower. "... remind them of the price of defiance."
    [X] Plan Big Damn Heroes
    [X]"Men, we are not your enemies!, we are here to help"
    -[X] Land and transform back to human, Dany stays as a dragon around your shoulders.
    -[X] "Listen, and listen well, me and my companions have slain the listener and his Champions, those that remain have been decimated, their commanders slain before the tower, even as we speak the angels scour the city to destroy those foolish enough not to run"
    -[X] "But they need your help, every moment the demons remain alive is another building destroyed, another life lost, will you not stand for city, will you not fight for It?"
    -[X]"This is not a battle won by outsiders, this is the hour of mankind, let us show that men will not vow to the spawn of the pit, that the spirit of mantarys has not been broken! rise soldiers and march for your city, the demons are the ones to fear the bite of magic this time!"
    -[X] Transform back into LHD and breath fire into the air.
    -[X] If not enough people rally behind you:
    -[X] "Make no mistake, the city will survive this night, a new order will come and the people will remember who stood with them and who hid like cowards, you can be heroes or you can be pariahs, its your choice."
    -[X] "If you cannot fight, then put out fires, guide the people to safety, arm those who will, every able body is needed tonight"
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cyrileom said:
I can just imagine the pen dragon being excited about what being a librarian/assistant and the uses we can put it towards... and then promptly deflating when we end up making it the biographer for Viserys, with instructions to "make it snappy."
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In all fairness, we're the most exciting thing it's ever seen. It got excited at telling us about true dragons, and was completely astonished when we told it that we'd already met a few. (I want to see its face when we tell it that we've spurned Tiamat and that we've personally slain a Nightmare dragon :D)

Since we met it, we conquered a demon city in less than a day, killed a devil, allied with Archons, killed a Mallor, gave a divine avatar to a slumbering god, killed the Listener and all his cultists, and harnessed enough wild magic to steal the shadow tower.

Hell, it should be begging us to allow it to scribe our adventures.
 
Huh. A calligraphy wyrm has actually got pretty decent Charisma and social (by base human standards).
Wonder if we can train it to be our agent.
 
cyrileom said:
Huh. A calligraphy wyrm has actually got pretty decent Charisma and social (by base human standards).
Wonder if we can train it to be our agent.
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I don't want to risk this puny thing until after it's written down all the lore it knows. Our library must grow.

Also, what do we want to do about the cat? I was hoping that it would just leave on its own, but what if it doesn't? I'm asking this because I was harboring hope of pendragon replacing the cat as Lya's familiar.
 
Duesal said:
I don't want to risk this puny thing until after it's written down all the lore it knows. Our library must grow.
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Agent as in literary and promotion agent.

Duesal said:
Also, what do we want to do about the cat? I was hoping that it would just leave on its own, but what if it doesn't? I'm asking this because I was harboring hope of pendragon replacing the cat as Lya's familiar.
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On the one hand, the cat is a massive information security risk. On the other hand, it... would be politically inconvenient to kill it. If we could somehow geas or bind it to keep our secrets, I'd say we just set the silvanshee loose and gladly wave goodbye to it.
 
Speaking of Libraries

At will Amanuensis should cost the same as Hand of the Mage. Isn't that 90IM in our prices?

So cheap to give to all of our scribes, triplicate of everything for safety and simultaneous study.
 
For the Cat, we should give it time to realise that its task of centuries is now done and its free of any curses and great burdens.

Then it and Lya can talk about the future, which will hopefully end with the Cat going somewhere else where it can do good, maybe work a spy for the Archons. And yes, that would be helpful, because a Spyglass is a military scout, not a city-infiltrator as the Cat can be.
 
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On the one hand, the cat is a massive information security risk. On the other hand, it... would be politically inconvenient to kill it. If we could somehow geas or bind it to keep our secrets, I'd say we just set the silvanshee loose and gladly wave goodbye to it.
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True, true, but we're going to have to learn how to make geases in the first place. Granted, that would be insanely useful for recruiting an army of mages. God damn, we have to learn how to do this.

Artemis1992 said:
For the Cat, we should give it time to realise that its task of centuries is now done and its free of any curses and great burdens.

Then it and Lya can talk about the future, which will hopefully end with the Cat going somewhere else where it can do good, maybe work a spy for the Archons. And yes, that would be helpful, because a Spyglass is a military scout, not a city-infiltrator as the Cat can be.
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Yeah, I was really hoping that the cat would wander off with the Archons where it can actually be a force for good. If it sticks with us we're just going to end up driving it mad.

EDIT: Also, we need to formalize our relationship with the pendragon. It's mainly tagged along out of curiosity. Now I want to bind him to our party and have him start scribing as much lore as he can.
 
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Duesal said:
True, true, but we're going to have to learn how to make geases in the first place. Granted, that would be insanely useful for recruiting an army of mages. God damn, we have to learn how to do this.
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Lya should take Lesser Geas with this level, if only for Construct making.
Working from that and Bestow Curse we might find some kind of solution.
 
Duesal said:
True, true, but we're going to have to learn how to make geases in the first place. Granted, that would be insanely useful for recruiting an army of mages. God damn, we have to learn how to do this.


Yeah, I was really hoping that the cat would wander off with the Archons where it can actually be a force for good. If it sticks with us we're just going to end up driving it mad.
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yes! the cat should go with the archons.
"Thank you mortal, in thanks for completing my master's work, i will swear myself to your service"
"NO!, let me stop you right there, you need to be with your kind"
"...My kind..."
"yes, it breaks my heart, but you now its the right thing to do, now go, before i have to put you in a sack for your own good"
 
das_slash said:
yes! the cat should go with the archons.
"Thank you mortal, in thanks for completing my master's work, i will swear myself to your service"
"NO!, let me stop you right there, you need to be with your kind"
"...My kind..."
"yes, it breaks my heart, but you now its the right thing to do, now go, before i have to put you in a sack for your own good"
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"Your task is done, Azerion. After centuries of suffering and pain you are finally free."
"Free..."
"Yes. Go now with your brethren. Walk in their light, bask in their brilliance. Take comfort in their goodness more than you ever could amongst the likes of us."


I don't know why, but being over-sentimental made me feel evil. Probably because I was being low-key manipulative to the extreme. :evil:
TLDR: "Go with them, be happy, and if you decide to stay we'll make your life a living hell." :D
 
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Eh... for the cat, that's kind of a waste, IMO. If the cat feels determined to spill our secrets, it's going to make sure to secure a caster that can uncurse it before it does so. I suppose it might make the cat less inclined to share information unless it wants to go through that, but... eh.

I agree the contract is probably something we should make, but I don't know if that particularly would be useful in this situation. If a situation arises where the cat's inherent Goodness (bleh) isn't enough for it to keep our secrets, the curse of the contract probably won't stop it either.
 
You know, if we want to use the "don't make a deal with a demon" test, the contract might be a neat way of ensuring that the testee doesn't accept. After all, the contract doesn't say both signatories need to understand or know what is written to be bound by the contract, only implied - and the contract specifically ignores implications and intents.

So simply write up a stringent contract where no deal can be made with the demon in some obscure, to the testee, language, and have them agree to the contract before going through the test. If they make a deal, they're cursed, and they wander out blinded, deafened, and mute - in other words, perfectly vulnerable
 
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