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

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DP: "and now I create a cunning trap that supports my !undead minions while using the party's magic against it. See how they handle that!"
Thread: "Now, how can we abuse that ..."

[x] Azel
 
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MTB said:
DP: "and now I create a cunning trap that supports my !undead minions while using the party's magic against it. See how they handle that!"
Thread: "Now, how can we abuse that ..."

[x] Azel
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BTW I designed this place when you were in Lys last but you missed the hooks for it, so wen you came back I changed the pseudo undead guardians and threw it into the running again (after rolling to see if anyone managed to destroy it in the meantime).
 
Pretty par for the course. Any potent threat can usually be benefited from, to the point that the DM kind of has to at least degrade the relative value of the resulting loot as to keep things from getting too ridiculous. Another reason I'm sure that all loot has to be identified before it can either be made use of or sold for full value--it would quickly snowball advancement one way or another. (Not that identification shouldn't be more forgiving, obviously. The previous rules for it were harsh.)
 
Crake said:
I feel like that's not something anyone ever expected to read when picking up a copy of VIserys' Memoirs.

"And then I grew half-angel, half-vegetable pygmies to defend my holdings."

It's like, what the fuck were you smoking when you wrote this, my liege? And where can I get some?

"...Bazaar of Beggars, Molten Skies, beneath the City of Brass. Ask for Rajah El-Amin."
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By the time they read that chapter, they will have learned enough to no longer consider it even the slightest bit odd.

But it's a great quote to throw at people who didn't read the book! :V
 
I think we should try to loot the fountain. Not doing it would be OOC.
And doing that, even if it fails, would hopefully get us some great Antimagic warding knowledge.

[X] Goldfish
 
Crake said:
When does the bizarre ball really start rolling?
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We are having serious plans about growing ornery vegetables as minions and are debating the best time for Lya to make some people. Preferably before we take that major city which has something between 10 and 50 times our population with a plan that boils down to regularly mind-wiping ourselves and keeping a diary.

That not bizarre enough for you yet?
 
I think it's only bizarre enough when Viserys starts commenting on just how strange something is. Which says something about his current frame of reference, if anything.
 
I'd like to say that the bizarre things started with Xor mostly. Once we crossed the barrier of Eldritch Abomination=Friend, everything else was game.
 
Tomcost said:
I'd like to say that the bizarre things started with Xor mostly. Once we crossed the barrier of Eldritch Abomination=Friend, everything else was game.
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I think the tipping point was around the conquest of TD / Volantis / Mantarys. This is roughly the time where we stopped interacting with mere mortals as equals.

Read our interactions with all the westerosi nobles we've met afterwards closely and you notice that the respect and consideration we showed the Sealord is missing completely. We treat Lords no different then their servants. It's rather subtle, but looks seriously weird when you examine it closely.

Even the Sealord himself is a good example. All our visits after our exile feel like briefing a minion, not visiting a foreign head of state.
 
Azel said:
I think the tipping point was around the conquest of TD / Volantis / Mantarys. This is roughly the time where we stopped interacting with mere mortals as equals.

Read our interactions with all the westerosi nobles we've met afterwards closely and you notice that the respect and consideration we showed the Sealord is missing completely. We treat Lords no different then their servants. It's rather subtle, but looks seriously weird when you examine it closely.

Even the Sealord himself is a good example. All our visits after our exile feel like briefing a minion, not visiting a foreign head of state.
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That was a tipping point for political weirdness, when the thread-majority started viewing Viserys as future king of the world.

But in many ways our friendship with Xor, acceptance of Azema and experiment with the Fairwind kids was already pretty weird. By most standards.
 
Any last minute votes?
Adhoc vote count started by Goldfish on Dec 6, 2017 at 5:48 AM, finished with 125704 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] Plan Exploit Blink and Loot Fountain
    -[X] Let Dany cast True Seeing on Viserys, before she and all other casters fly up, but stay close enough for Danys auras to affect the ground around you.
    -[X] Viserys uses Blink to pass into the Ethereal Plane and casts Freezing Glance there, before returning and hitting the empowered Bonethorne with the effect.
    -[X] Garin and Waymar go for the positive energy ooze, then attack any frozen Bonethornes.
    -[X] Viserys freezes all Bonethorns and murders things with his Breathweapon and melee attacks.
    [X] Everyone takes to the air, rising to an altitude of at least 200 feet.
    -[X] Once this is done:
    --[X] Tyene casts Panacea on Waymar and Dany casts True Seeing on Viserys.
    --[X] Viserys bombards the entire area with a Firebrand spell. If the spell is used to create another Living Spell, we will have to consider other options. If it is not, Viserys scours the area with Fireball spells until nothing is left but ash.
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Artemis1992 said:
That was a tipping point for political weirdness, when the thread-majority started viewing Viserys as future king of the world.

But in many ways our friendship with Xor, acceptance of Azema and experiment with the Fairwind kids was already pretty weird. By most standards.
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That's still kind of normalish mage behaviour to me, but yeah. That's where we started to flaunt the laws of man and nature as a matter of course.
 
Azel said:
Even the Sealord himself is a good example. All our visits after our exile feel like briefing a minion, not visiting a foreign head of state.
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"Now, since that business with the former delegates from Qarth is over with..."

"Shouldn't have raised so much fuss when I burned down their pathetic conjurer tower. It was only filled with a bunch of cheap parlor tricks..."

"...nevertheless. What of the state of the world?"

"Long or short version?"

"Lead with the short, please, Your Grace."

"Shit's fucked."

It was in that moment that Ferrego Antaryon missed dearly the halcyon days where the dynamic between him and the enigmatic Viserys Targaryen was even vaguely comprehensible.
 
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Part MDI: On Cursed Ground
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    • On Cursed Ground​

    Twenty-Ninth Day of the Eleventh Month 292 AC

    You cannot drive the things into the night to spread their foulness where they will, nor can you chance a great fire that may come alive to set alight the whole of Lys and all within it. Where fire may be lacking, ice can yet serve...

    "Keep them busy a moment longer!" you shout to the others as you rise heavenwards once more, hoping that the darkness shrouds your form from most eyes at least. "I need to know..." Before you can even finish speaking Dany begins to chant a spell of clear sight upon you. And so you see all that lies beneath you laid bare to your gaze.

    Here Waymar, a ghostly crown of beaten bronze upon his brow, and in the left hand that is no more he carries a shield of duty untarnished. There Garin, running along the razor's edge betwixt the darkness and the light, drawing strength from one to which he is bound with chains of adamant and yearning for the other.

    You fear to turn this gaze upon yourself... almost you welcome the horror at understanding the horror of your foes and of this cursed place.

    The land defiled in the blood of those who nurtured it... a nameless monster that sought nothing more than to slay those who made it... the monster chained and made to serve, a monument to hubris, the lands fecundity turned to forge abominations undreamt in darkest nightmares, to give form to the formless in a blasphemous union.

    Pity stirs in your soul, yet it serves no more purpose than the anger that had come before. Whatever this had been, whatever it might have become, it was now a blight upon all that lived... and sickness to be purged. Now at last you can see the true foe from the echoes spun of ageless hate. Of winter's grip of killing frost you speak, passing between one world and the other... old bones halt in place, caught between your command and that of the tortured will that drives them, the formless spell-beast still pulsing about it.

    The act seems to drive the remaining creatures into a frenzy of hate, ripping and tearing at all in their path... driven to share a pain beyond knowing. Even as your friends hew the trapped monster as a woodsman does a rotted tree, its fellows converse upon Waymar, drawn to the blood already spilled upon these cursed grounds, and bleed he does anew, almost being drawn down to his death by the monsters.

    Waymar takes 41 Damage

    The Valeman half-falls-half-throws himself upon the misbegotten spell-beast. The thing pummels him blindly even as its very essence soothes his wounds.

    Waymar takes 8 damage

    Wayamar heals 32 damage

    Among the clamor you hear the sound of stones breaking, the stone griffons begin to crack and move, and for a moment you fear that they might come alive before you see that the true perils comes from bellow... the broken landwarden screams in pain beyond pain... You must end this quickly least the towers of Lys tumbledown like broken toys and the guilty and innocent should be devouring by the maw of the earth.

    The fount is the keystone and the gap, you realize in a flash of insight. To break it is to allow the spirit to fall into its dark dreams for an age more. Or else you could try to speak with it in this final hour, to sooth its pains.

    What do you do?

    [] Draw back and try to communicate with the tormented spirit

    [] Destroy the fountain

    [] Write in

    OOC: To be clear, the CR 30 spirit can't come up and kill you all, but it can cause a major earthquake in its rage at not getting all the king's blood in Waymar's veins.
     
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    • Just to be clear, the valyrians tried to enslave something in the same power bracket as a middling deity, fucked up, tainted it in the process and then just shrugged and made a park above it?

    The Doom suddenly makes so much sense. :facepalm:
     
    Let's talk to it!
    We punched it in the face already, so now let's showcase all our skills and go all shonen protagonists on the final boss!
     
    It's the Good thing to do.
    It's the sensible thing to do, considering we want to conquer this city.

    [X] Draw back and try to communicate with the tormented spirit

    Also: Kinda useful to be liked by the CR 30 monster.
     
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