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

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Have you thought about the possibility of this thing being there to spring the ambush before the important illithids come out of the water?

There is no need to defeat it now and break the surprise, the villagers are now protected.

How about if we wait until they hit the wards?
 
I'm torn.

Artemis is wasting spells and overcommits us towards the blimp.
TNE is wasting time and sending a dangerously weak party against the blimp.
 
The thing is...

They know, that we know that they are coming, so they send the blimp.
We know, that they know, that we know they are coming, so we consider the blimp and wait for the actual attack.
They know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they are coming, so the blimp is the actual attack and they can lean back while the waffle around and it wins them the fight.
We know, that they know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they are coming, so we do a alpha-strike against the blimp.
They know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they are coming, so they spring the actual attack while we waffle around with the blimp.
We know...

Ad nauseum.
 
Azel said:
The thing is...

They know, that we know that they are coming, so they send the blimp.
We know, that they know, that we know they are coming, so we consider the blimp and wait for the actual attack.
They know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they are coming, so the blimp is the actual attack and they can lean back while the waffle around and it wins them the fight.
We know, that they know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they are coming, so we do a alpha-strike against the blimp.
They know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they are coming, so they spring the actual attack while we waffle around with the blimp.
We know...

Ad nauseum.
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It's not quite that bad, neither side has real-time divination.
 
Azel said:
The thing is...

They know, that we know that they are coming, so they send the blimp.
We know, that they know, that we know they are coming, so we consider the blimp and wait for the actual attack.
They know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they are coming, so the blimp is the actual attack and they can lean back while the waffle around and it wins them the fight.
We know, that they know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they are coming, so we do a alpha-strike against the blimp.
They know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they know, that we know, that they are coming, so they spring the actual attack while we waffle around with the blimp.
We know...

Ad nauseum.
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Just try to see at which point does the average human's head explodes and then use that as the actual assumption, so that we decide from that.
 
Point should be:

The blimp is not going to be less lethal by just attacking it with a reduced party. Its lethality is the same if we attack now or later.

What we must measure is our party's lethality if we split it. And, frankly, if Viserys is not there to give Haste to Richard, our damage output suffers a lot.
 
DragonParadox said:
It's not quite that bad, neither side has real-time divination.
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That's actually just the "what might they think?" game. No divination necessary.

That being said, that's the sane and sober game and not one of the more outlandish theorys.

Like that the blimp is actually a cleverly disguised Lannister warship with valyrian doomsday weapons.

Or that the next update will be a 500 ft. tall Robert Baratheon coming out of the water, taking a bite out of the blimp and laughing at us.
Cue Viserys realizing that something is wrong and this isn't real.
Cue us learning that Viserys and Dany live on the streets of Braavos, Viserys is slowly dying from the same sickness as Ser Darry and the entire quest was just a elaborate fever dream.
Cue us learning that Dany desperately tried to keep her brother alive for weeks while he slowly slipped away from sanity, mumbling about being a dragon, becoming pirate king and decorating trees with squid.
Cue Viserys dying while Dany cries over him.
Cue Dany coughing mysteriously, indicating she catched the same sickness and will soon die alone on the street.
Cue the entire thread collapsing into a rift to the Plane of Salt.
And then we all where Dessicators.

THE END
 
Exposing such an asset like this is simply stupid. If it is so awesome, then the Illithids won't risk it, even for a double bluff, because either way we will attack it first.


Azel said:
That's actually just the "what might they think?" game. No divination necessary.

That being said, that's the sane and sober game and not one of the more outlandish theorys.

Like that the blimp is actually a cleverly disguised Lannister warship with valyrian doomsday weapons.

Or that the next update will be a 500 ft. tall Robert Baratheon coming out of the water, taking a bite out of the blimp and laughing at us.
Cue Viserys realizing that something is wrong and this isn't real.
Cue us learning that Viserys and Dany live on the streets of Braavos, Viserys is slowly dying from the same sickness as Ser Darry and the entire quest was just a elaborate fever dream.
Cue us learning that Dany desperately tried to keep her brother alive for weeks while he slowly slipped away from sanity, mumbling about being a dragon, becoming pirate king and decorating trees with squid.
Cue Viserys dying while Dany cries over him.
Cue Dany coughing mysteriously, indicating she catched the same sickness and will soon die alone on the street.
Cue the entire thread collapsing into a rift to the Plane of Salt.
And then we all where Dessicators.

THE END
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This was really depressing, but I'll save this quote for future use:

Azel said:
And then we all where Dessicators.
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Azel said:
That's actually just the "what might they think?" game. No divination necessary.

That being said, that's the sane and sober game and not one of the more outlandish theorys.

Like that the blimp is actually a cleverly disguised Lannister warship with valyrian doomsday weapons.

Or that the next update will be a 500 ft. tall Robert Baratheon coming out of the water, taking a bite out of the blimp and laughing at us.
Cue Viserys realizing that something is wrong and this isn't real.
Cue us learning that Viserys and Dany live on the streets of Braavos, Viserys is slowly dying from the same sickness as Ser Darry and the entire quest was just a elaborate fever dream.
Cue us learning that Dany desperately tried to keep her brother alive for weeks while he slowly slipped away from sanity, mumbling about being a dragon, becoming pirate king and decorating trees with squid.
Cue Viserys dying while Dany cries over him.
Cue Dany coughing mysteriously, indicating she catched the same sickness and will soon die alone on the street.
Cue the entire thread collapsing into a rift to the Plane of Salt.
And then we all where Dessicators.

THE END
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*Gives a long searching look.*

Are you sure you are not GRRM?
 
DragonParadox said:
Anyway, consensus?
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Adhoc vote count started by Artemis1992 on Jun 8, 2017 at 11:12 AM, finished with 76774 posts and 14 votes.
  • [X] Yes
    -[X] Fetch Vee on the day of the attack, have her stay with the villagers and summon a Unicorn to keep them in a PfE-Circle and Satyrs to guard them and make spot-checks.
    -[X] Maelor also stays with them
    -[X] Waymar keeps See Invisibility active
    [X] Attack the strange creature
    -[X] Garin gives Richard Airwalk and gets Fly from Vee
    -[X] Teleport Viserys, those two and Glyra to a point slightly above the flying creature.
    -[X] Sky-Sushi time!
    -[X] Stay together, ready to teleport back as soon as the thing is dead or you have to retreat.
    [X] Yes
    -[X] Fetch Vee on the evening before the attack, have her stay with the villagers and summon a Unicorn to keep them in a PfE-Circle and Satyrs to guard them and make spot-checks.
    -[X] Maelor also stays with them
    -[X] Waymar keeps See Invisibility active, shares it with Winter, whom will be flying invisibly and giving a birds eye view of the surroundings.
    [X] Attack the strange creature
    -[X] Viserys carries Garin, invisibly, above the creature. Fly around it at max fireball range first and study it/check for illusions and wards. Is it a summon?
    -[X] Viserys casts Pain Darts and a Hasted Garin Death Attacks. If the death attack fails, use breath weapon and carry him away for another go.
    [X] Tell the villagers to evacuate, because their minds will be screwed otherwise
    -[X] Wait and ambush as planned
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Goddamnit an hour late to the vote...
Only one of you commented on village being in danger of being wiped by wave. I thought it was obvious.
Well, there goes the village me thinks.
 
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