A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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That's pretty much what I'm aiming for. Just Chaotic Evil to Chaotic Neutral. That should be a huge step to distancing herself from the Abyss.
Oh dear fuck. We'll have to prepare an invasion to save that fucking city, won't we? 
Ser Richard is immune, so he doesn't actually need any PfE. I think it'd be worth it for Viserys to give Ser Richard the Boneward Belt while he takes Ser Richard's Enduring Amulet of PfE.
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A piece of the continent
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- The interblag
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Well, that was always my thinking, though a month is running...uh...a little tight on time. Just a tad.
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- Germany
Why would we do anything?
Tyrosh commiting canniballistic suicide would spare us a lot of trouble and open up a quest-area for eaker adventurers to train.
It's a much better neighbourhood than a functioning Tyrosh.
Tyrosh commiting canniballistic suicide would spare us a lot of trouble and open up a quest-area for eaker adventurers to train.
It's a much better neighbourhood than a functioning Tyrosh.
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- Brazil
Not really worth it, we have +19 Will when buffed. Would also cost Viserys 12 HP.
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- United States
Because our party won't let us knowingly stand back and allow thousands of slaves to be massacred in the name of a dark god?
That's another reason to intervene: a successful ritual for Dionysus involving the sacrifice of an entire city probably won't end well for us.
Never mind, then.
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- Germany
It's more likely the revenge of that god for abusing his festival, or some other event not directly related to the wine. Poisoned wine doesn't summon Maenads, usually.
Meh, the whole Bachannalia is very self-destructive, that's part of the whole idea behind it, it will likely not be used for anything, just burn itself out as such things do.
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- United States
Either way, I want to follow up and attend the festival in Tyrosh prepared for trouble. Even if we end up not intervening and get Tyrosh as a dungeon-graveyard like you wanted, we can still snatch a few Maenads for sacrifice. It only takes two to grow a weirwood in full, and only two more after that to add secondary effects.
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- Argentina
Nah, the Old Gods don't eat souls. I wanna make a Ring of Sex Appeal +3 out of her.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
That would be a waste of good grafting supplies...
Part MCCLIV: A Fitting Curse
A Fitting Curse
Thirtieth Day of the Eight Month 292 AC
After a moment's thought you say, "We need to kill those things before they drive more of the revelers mad." Waymar nods resolutely, though he is markedly less content with your next words. "We should not take foolish chances for it, though. The crowd could tear us apart if we are careless. We move together and try to slay as many of the Handmaidens as we can..."
"Handmaidens...?" Tyene asks as the four of you rush down the stairway of the inn and into the crowded taproom, luckily filled with only the ordinary feasting and drinking.
"Handmaidens of Excess, the Bringers of Madness," you answer before beginning swift incantations as the others kept a wary eye on the door. From your own magic and that bound in one of Lya's scrolls, you call swiftness in battle wards against body and mind.
Lost one scroll of Protection from Evil
"So like demons," Tyene replies, the suspicion clear in her voice.
"No," Waymar replies to your surprise, motioning to his sword, the enchanted bronze barely glimmering with silver light where your recall it had blazed bright when drawn in the presence of demons. "Demons are creatures of wilful sin, a perversion of what is good and pure in the world. These things seen a denial of all restraint and of reason itself."
"I don't suppose the people getting eaten care for the distinction," Ser Richard puts in softly as he checks the draw on Oathkeeper.
"Let's go," you call, settling a coat of scales upon yourself and then a glamor to hide the change. "Take them alive where you can..." you add.
***
Outside, madness waits: people drinking, fighting, feasting, and rutting in the streets like beasts, moving from one to the other in the blink of an eye. You are distantly glad you ate lightly for dinner. Waymar stumbles against a man soaked in blood and wine babbling madly, and for a moment you fear he too is caught in the grip of the enchantment, but the young Valeman holds his own, the words of the Old Tongue cutting through the din. In a flash of sorcery he is next to the monster without having to struggle with its thralls. Rather than follow you speak the words of changing, weaving your knowledge of the foe into the enchantment. If it will drive men to act like beasts then you will make it one.
Even as Ser Richard leaps over the heads of the revelers, meaning to slice the thing apart, otherworldly flesh shifts... contracts, and Oathkeeper cuts naught but empty air as the creature becomes a common fox, its fur the color of spilled blood.
The revelers awaken to their state and the screams change to horror and disbelief. They run howling into the distance, or else begin to puke wine and other less wholesome things.
After only a moment's hesitation Ser Richard lunges at the new-made fox and pulls the hissing, spitting beast up. A spell of sleep gentles it soon after. "Is this going to turn back?" the knight shouts, looking like he would still rather kill the monster.. Though you assure him that it will not, the question of where to put the damn thing remains.
What do you do with the cursed Maenad and any of its sisters you manage to capture in like fashion?
[] Put them into the bag of holding, they should be guarded from any attempts to break the curse there, as long as they do not run out of air
[] Have Tyene hold on to them, they are small enough, though it does risk escape and the curse being broken
[] Write in
OOC: Waymar was actually confused there because the DC to resist the Infectious dance was 24 due to all the people on the street making the effect stronger. However he rolled "act normally" on the confused chart. And then of course the Maenad went down to Assay Spell-Resistance+Baleful Polymorph like a chump. That combination is terrifying.
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- Argentina
Like what? Dimension door 1/day? Nah, not worth it.
@DragonParadox , I don't suppose we can put them into a box with the openning facing the floor and some weight over it?
Also, we are setting a default baleful polymorph shape as turtles.
A sea cucumber could not have lived long out of the water, making it a poor way to keep the thing alive.
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@Tomcost has the right idea. In the future we're going with turtles. Actually, screw it. Not even turtles. We're going with tortoises so that they can't even swim away.
You would have to find a box first.
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- Argentina
If we are underwater it can backfire and make them drown.
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- United States
If we're underwater the default polymorph will be a seahorse. Those things are notoriously slow.
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- Argentina
Empty barrel. There is one of those around, right?
Also, maybe we can make them into anything that fits into a mug.
It's currently a sleeping fox.
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- florida
Mice? No too sneaky. Rats?
Dire rats?
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How hard would it be to keep the air fresh in the bag of holding? Waft it? Put some potted plants in there? Get a bottle of eternal air?
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