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

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So, how's the Gorgon project coming along?

How's the cocoa project coming along?

We dropped 4k with Fairwind for him to buy exotic swamp plants for us to trade in, where's our money?
 
@Azel
I disagree with spending Dany's time on Garin's child, let her start reading the Fire lore, maybe even move on with the Summoning.
I think many of Dany's long-term projects are as valuable as Lya's and working through some of her startup is worth it.

Also, does it have to be the spreadsheet? We'll get several votes on who to take with us again during the month, guessing from experience, so let's just make a general plan and do as much of it as we end up having time for.

Last thing, what do you think about getting Maelor to teach Hermetia, Valaena and maybe Azema? They need to get started on casting and Wizard or Hedgmage are not the right direction.
 
dpara said:
Question, the Old Gods aren't really gods, right? Do we have to worry that Yss is gonna have a real problem with them?
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They are. How else can we get stuff for sacrifice from them? Yss only dislikes worshipping stuff that does not or cannot give anything back in the divine way. Like the dead gods of Valyria in Volantis, money, etc.

I propose we tackle the Dracolich first. Sacrifice the 13 HD maenad, or more, to see if Yss can extract the Dracolich from the tower and see what we can do with the Phylactery either by sacrificing to back to Yss or to the Old Gods for the healing tree. Doing so would free Vee and Tyene.

Then Molten Skies back to fullfill our deal.

Then Silver Serpent enterprises and a quick visit to Braavos to check on our investment. We need to have a steady source of income.
 
Just noticed, @Azel those are too many people and no Vee on the Zherys-issue.
Teleport-capacity.
Takesis said:
I propose we tackle the Dracolich first. Sacrifice the 13 HD maenad, or more, to see if Yss can extract the Dracolich from the tower and see what we can do with the Phylactery either by sacrificing to back to Yss or to the Old Gods for the healing tree. Doing so would free Vee and Tyene.
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Hey, first communicating, then trying to kill him!
 
Artemis1992 said:
@Azel
I disagree with spending Dany's time on Garin's child, let her start reading the Fire lore, maybe even move on with the Summoning.
I think many of Dany's long-term projects are as valuable as Lya's and working through some of her startup is worth it.

Also, does it have to be the spreadsheet? We'll get several votes on who to take with us again during the month, guessing from experience, so let's just make a general plan and do as much of it as we end up having time for.

Last thing, what do you think about getting Maelor to teach Hermetia, Valaena and maybe Azema? They need to get started on casting and Wizard or Hedgmage are not the right direction.
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Given that we have only two away missions this month, I don't think that we will mess up the schedule that much again.

MS is pretty straightforward and the strike team for Zherys is sufficiently dimensioned to splatter him all over Volantis in two rounds flat.

Edit: Vee is part of the team.
 
Azel said:
Proposal:

Still a lot of time left, but I tried to cram everything in there we can get done at home.

Ideas:
- send Richard, Waymar, Tyene and Vee for a follow-up mission to Tyrosh (the city might yet explode at the end of the month so having at least a few contacts there would be nice)
- send them somewhere else for a minor quest
- let Vee and Tyene study the moss or the Light of Creation

@DragonParadox, can we have Xor do some of the work for Garins kid to free up some Lya or Dany time?
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I'll be able to look over stuff a bit more thoroughly when I get home for work, but one thing stands out to me in your proposal; why wait so far into the month to deal with the Dracolich?

We should do it first, in case unforseen circumstances interfere.
 
@Artemis1992, @TotallyNotEvil, @Goldfish, here is my full plan for Zherys:

Viserys and Dany meet him.
Vee, Richard, Lya and Garin are in Volantis, ready to strike.
Dany imbues Viserys with a Sending.

Once things get hot:
Viserys cast Nerveskitter, uses Sending for a message to Vee, Rod of Quickening for a combat spell, depending on what Zherys brings.
Dany casts Nerveskitter, nails him with Dimensional Anchor to prevent his escape.
Vee ports on with the others.

Commence murder.
 
Azel said:
@Artemis1992, @TotallyNotEvil, @Goldfish, here is my full plan for Zherys:

Viserys and Dany meet him.
Vee, Richard, Lya and Garin are in Volantis, ready to strike.
Dany imbues Viserys with a Sending.

Once things get hot:
Viserys cast Nerveskitter, uses Sending for a message to Vee, Rod of Quickening for a combat spell, depending on what Zherys brings.
Dany casts Nerveskitter, nails him with Dimensional Anchor to prevent his escape.
Vee ports on with the others.

Commence murder.
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Sounds good. Especially Garin and Richard.
 
Goldfish said:
I'll be able to look over stuff a bit more thoroughly when I get home for work, but one thing stands out to me in your proposal; why wait so far into the month to deal with the Dracolich?

We should do it first, in case unforseen circumstances interfere.
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Mostly because it would make the most sense to do it once Westhaven is stable, which should be right after Laws.
 
Also for the

DragonParadox said:
Magic:
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actions.

[ ] The Queen Awakens: Dany's proposal to use the seed to awaken the Queen Rhaella, empowering it. To give birth to a new being. A fey of the Sky and Sea.

We could use TotallyNotEvil's plan with the Acorn of Far Travel with it too to make use of the Death Ward tied in to the Weirwood we have already.
 
@Azel , Vee can make a Godswood, as part of the Old God sacrifice action. Also she could start to develop memory harvesting , alongside Tyene.

Memory harvesting is going to be so, SO good.
 
Azel said:
Given that we have only two away missions this month, I don't think that we will mess up the schedule that much again.

MS is pretty straightforward and the strike team for Zherys is sufficiently dimensioned to splatter him all over Volantis in two rounds flat.

Edit: Vee is part of the team.
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Ok, Since Vee and Tyene have little time spend in your plan, maybe put them on the memory moss.

For the texts, Dany profits more from Fire, due to actually being a diplomancer and summoner at times, the Souls fit Lya very well. Might make sense to split them rather than let both read both.
 
Finally home. Can't say I love long waits at the Doctors. Before I go and write up a full plan (instead of suggesting alterations due to trade missions), I thought I'd get people's opinion, since I think my main point of contention with Azel's overall thrust is I think the Zherys action is a net negative. Even having to deal with the fallout of successfully killing him is a headache.

So I'll just ask how many people just don't want to go poke Zherys's trap? If there aren't a lot, I'll just stick to making suggestions.
 
Thing is, Dany can't choose the kind of ally she gets via Planar Ally, while Lya can via Planar Binding. So, we will save more money via Lya, I guess.
 
Takesis said:
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[ ] The Queen Awakens: Dany's proposal to use the seed to awaken the Queen Rhaella, empowering it. To give birth to a new being. A fey of the Sky and Sea.

We could use TotallyNotEvil's plan with the Acorn of Far Travel with it too to make use of the Death Ward tied in to the Weirwood we have already.
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Added. It needs people with knowledge nature.
 
Diomedon said:
So I'll just ask how many people just don't want to go poke Zherys's trap? If there aren't a lot, I'll just stick to making suggestions.
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I'm in favor of taking whatever he tries to bind us with. And not killing him.
Not like we giv a damn about most bindings, the Wyrm Mother failed, why would Zherys succede?

Tomcost said:
Thing is, Dany can't choose the kind of ally she gets via Planar Ally, while Lya can via Planar Binding. So, we will save more money via Lya, I guess.
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Dany can call by name, once she knows some. Not as good as being able to summon in categories, but still.

Also Dany profits from the diplo-boost against people on Molten Skies while Lya almost never uses Diplomacy.
 
Commencing full plan writing. Stay tuned.

Thread is moving rather fast, so just a heads up that I won't read along until I'm done.
 
DragonParadox said:
  • You are already breeding a never before seen hybrid and you want to mess with the process even more?
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I will refer you to the thread's tags :V

@Azel @Diomedon you can have Tyene brew lots o'poison. Specially Sleep Smoke bottles, which cost 0.83 IM per dose, for a DC15 cloud of Unconciousness/Unconciousness for 1d3 minutes. They even have to save twice, as the cloud lasts for 2 rounds.
 
@Tomcost, for the sacrifice there are two major limiters.

1. We need to check if the Maenads are still in the Tortoises, mainly because if we have insufficient HD for the Heart Tree the ritual backlashes on us and binds us to the sapling so we can't go beyond 100 feet.

2. IIRC, the main caster is the one who has to do the carving, and IIRC magical buffs aren't allowed to help with the carving. Unfortunately, we've long since retrained that one point in Woodworking. Fortunately, I've been talking with DP and he told me he'd allow us to bypass that by having Lya upgrade our +5 woodworking tool to +10 for ~750 IM (a cost we'll try to reduce by shopping in Molten Skies).

Once we get these two things done we'll be able to grow our Heart Tree. In the meantime our sacrifices can chill under heavy supervision.
 
Alright. Plan.

@DragonParadox, I took the liberty to give every action a shorthand again, but added the flavour names behind to avoid confusion.

[X] Plan Visiting The World and Beyond
-[X] Laws / A Code of Laws - Viserys
-[X] Lich / Voice of a Dead Dragon - Viserys
-[X] Xorn / Gratitude carved in stone - Viserys, Dany, Richard, Xor
// added Xor here to mooch some XP if possible
// also makes a lovely mess whenever Xor and the Xorn interact :V
-[X] Zherys / The offering that binds - Viserys, Dany, Vee, Richard, Garin, Lya
-[X] Garins Child / A Child of Unique Circumstances - Dany, Lya
-[X] Train Minotaurs (Armor) - Richard
// had nothing to fill up his days and I think we all where a bit sad when we couldn't wrap the minotaurs in platemail
-[X] Soul & Fire Lore / Power of the Soul & Lore of Fire - Lya, start with Soul and get started on Fire if the time permits
-[X] Crafting by Wight: 3x Amulet of PfE (missing money paid from treasury)
-[X] Sacrifice Turtules / The Gods of Earth, Stone, and Tree - Vee, sacrifice the transformed Maneads from Westhaven, preferably for crafting materials
// leaving this open for now so that the Tree-Factions can argue their case in isolation and peace
-[X] Memory Harvesting - Vee, Tyene
-[X] Yss / Servants of the Serpent: Waymar
// oddly enough I think that his judgement of the whole matter would be the most useful
-[X] Visit Mantarys / Journey to the East: Mantarys - Xor
--[X] Learn from Yreal
--[X] Take the Elysium Apple along to figure out what we could do we with it
// Xor is a Wizard and can thus learn just fine from them and has the added bonus of being such a lovable Good scamp
-[X] Scout Tyrosh / Journey to the East: Tyrosh - Maelor, Glyra
--[X] Try to get a feel for the city and maybe make som unofficial aquaintances among the lower rungs of society or the local fey
// a former street urchin and Glyra are just perfect for this, only downside is that they can't take Garin along who would also fit nicely
// also finally gets those two out of the tower again for a bit
-[X] Identify: VS Armor - Maelor
-[X] Identify: Standard - Glyra

Schedule:
Day Viserys Dany Richard Lya Vee Tyene Waymar Xor Maelor Glyra Garin Crafting

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Sacrifice Turtles X Yss X Scout Tyrosh Scout Tyrosh X 1. PfE

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Sacrifice Turtles X Yss Visit Mantarys Scout Tyrosh Scout Tyrosh X 1. PfE

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Sacrifice Turtles X Yss Visit Mantarys Scout Tyrosh Scout Tyrosh X 2. PfE

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Memory Harvesting Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Scout Tyrosh Scout Tyrosh X 2. PfE

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Memory Harvesting Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Scout Tyrosh Scout Tyrosh X 3. PfE

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Memory Harvesting Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Identify VS Armor Indentify Standard X 3. PfE

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Memory Harvesting Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Identify VS Armor Indentify Standard X  

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Memory Harvesting Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Identify VS Armor Indentify Standard X  

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Memory Harvesting Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Identify VS Armor Indentify Standard X  

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 Laws Garins Child Train Minotaurs (Armor) Garins Child Memory Harvesting Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Identify VS Armor Indentify Standard X  

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 Laws X Train Minotaurs (Armor) Soul / Fire Lore Memory Harvesting Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Identify VS Armor Indentify Standard X  

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 Laws X Train Minotaurs (Armor) Soul / Fire Lore X Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Identify VS Armor Indentify Standard X  

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 Laws X Train Minotaurs (Armor) Soul / Fire Lore X Memory Harvesting Yss Visit Mantarys Identify VS Armor Indentify Standard X  

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 Lich X Train Minotaurs (Armor) Soul / Fire Lore X Memory Harvesting X Visit Mantarys Identify VS Armor X X  

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Thoughts?
 
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