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

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Crake said:
@Goldfish @DragonParadox

In the earlier Malarys interlude, he was musing a lot about some of the predilections of Old Valyria and the Dragonlords in particular who guided policy over the ages, mainly the making of pacts with fiends and the mass sacrifices and other dark deeds.

I would indeed think it interesting for someone who thinks greatness on par with Valyria can only be forged in the blood of countless innocents starting to see why people are hopeful of what good magic can do, rather than what terrible, horrible darkness can be wrought with it that he knows in detail, now also what good can be gleaned if bent to purpose by the right people.

In hindsight, we lucked out allying with an awakening colonial dragonlord rather than a member of the Forty. They would have been more contemptuous of our associates and our regard for our lessers.
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Magic has a very simple, fundamental truth:
"Blood is twice as strong when given willingly."
 
@Azel Since DP has confirmed that more teachers would boost our chances of training up more mages each turn, I think our next three Arcanums should fit the Researcher/Teacher/Crafter paradigm. All three would be able to teach, but they would probably teach different things and would actually lift the load on Teana's shoulders there by actually forming the basis for class scheduling. Like one class on research theory and lab safety, another on practicals, one for artificers and maybe one of our combat arcanums could guest lecture a combat course with one of the party taking turns acting as an instructor and generally trying to make the "this is what a PC battle looks like" seem authentic.
 
Crake said:
@Azel Since DP has confirmed that more teachers would boost our chances of training up more mages each turn, I think our next three Arcanums should fit the Researcher/Teacher/Crafter paradigm. All three would be able to teach, but they would probably teach different things and would actually lift the load on Teana's shoulders there by actually forming the basis for class scheduling. Like one class on research theory and lab safety, another on practicals, one for artificers and maybe one of our combat arcanums could guest lecture a combat course with one of the party taking turns acting as an instructor and generally trying to make the "this is what a PC battle looks like" seem authentic.
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Can Mercy teach anything useful there? Just what are her strong sides that'd be plausible to use in educating young mages?
 
In terms of class levels? Unknown. Maybe nothing. Basic foundational knowledge that would allow them to begin advances in a class? Certainly.
 
Crake said:
In terms of class levels? Unknown. Maybe nothing. Basic foundational knowledge that would allow them to begin advances in a class? Certainly.
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She has the Spellcraft skill maxed for her HD, plus Craft(Alchemy), and other useful skills, including a lot of Knowledges and Heal.
 
[X] Goldfish

Are we gearing up North now or is Viserys planning for the festival still? I think he may have to teleport important guests over since it's barely half a month left, but I think we would have sent notices a month ago right after the arena opened.

Can we do a relax time while Viserys is planning? Like a garden stroll with the Elysium tree garden perhaps?
 
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Oh, we are visiting North now. Just re-read the chapter notes.

DragonParadox said:
There is no guarantee that any child born of such a union will show fiend blood
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I was under the impression that all the corsairs were male and Oberyn, so I got confused by this statement for a while till I realized that the Viper hooked up with fiend-blooded females...
The Valyrian genes of the first Daenerys truly finds a way.
 
Takesis said:
[X] Goldfish

Are we gearing up North now or is Viserys planning for the festival still? I think he may have to teleport important guests over since it's barely half a month left, but I think we would have sent notices a month ago right after the arena opened.

Can we do a relax time while Viserys is planning? Like a garden stroll with the Elysium tree garden perhaps?
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The festival is going to happen next month to celebrate the day you sacrificed Damphair. This month you just worked to organize it.
 
DragonParadox said:
He already has one.
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Relief! That means Doran likely has one as well. Good job Doran!

Takesis said:
I was under the impression that all the corsairs were male and Oberyn, so I got confused by this statement for a while till I realized that the Viper hooked up with fiend-blooded females...
The Valyrian genes of the first Daenerys truly finds a way.
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I took that as Viserys misunderstanding himself (it's not like he knows many men into other men), and Tyene not bothering to correct him, because why have that conversation about your father when you could instead...not?

DragonParadox said:
The festival is going to happen next month to celebrate the day you sacrificed Damphair. This month you just worked to organize it.
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Ah...so...is that fleet reorganization vote pushed off till next turn vote?
 
[X] Goldfish
Uh i somehow arrived in time for the first vote of the day?
Edit: damn, i just found the "vote closed" , eh, close enough.
 
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By the way, @Duesal the relativly unspectecular conversion of the Red Priests in Dorne is propably proof for what I mentioned a while ago, that usually priests can reject their god with less extreme measures than Dany had to use.

That means Brienne, the Maiden-Cleric and theoretically even Melisandre are game.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jan 11, 2018 at 9:34 AM, finished with 346 posts and 13 votes.
  • [X] Yes
    -[X] Place an initial order for 50 Large-sized (1000 IM) and 50 Medium-sized (800 IM) Masterwork Double Crossbows.
    --[X] The Large weapons will only be given to those Minotaurs Richard is convinced have the discipline to properly care for them and the necessary skill to use them effectively. The Medium weapons will first be used by Sorcerer's Deep guards, but may eventually be issued for use on certain ships. A number of them will be used for training our future Legionnaires in their use.
    -[X] Inquire of the Tinker Fey what it would cost to produce a Huge-sized variant for use as a mobile artillery or siege weapon, or possibly to mount on our ships and Small-sized and Hand Cross-bow sized variants for easier concealment or for use by our less massive citizens.
    [X] Haggle. Start at 100% profit rate, and allow Oberyn to bargain us down to 50% if he presses, but only so long as his total order does not require more than ten days of crafting. 100% profit on anything that exceeds ten days.
    -[X] No Adamant
    [X] The Basilisk Principality: You rule over newly-colonized territory in wild Sothoryos. Expect giant murderous gribblies of all sorts, and you've just been handed this Top Secret filed titled "The Underdark". You wonder what it is...
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Part MDCV: Dragon's Roost
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    • Dragon's Roost ​

    Fifteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 292 AC

    As evening begins to steep over Sorcerer's Deep ,you bid farewell to most of your friends and begin the journey north, one that would see you stand at last before Brynden Rivers in the flesh learn whatever secrets the old sorcerer would not trust to the tides of the Dream. And if the fates are kind... perhaps you might see undone a death come unjustly. Perhaps your family will number one more when next you walk the streets of the Deep. By your side there are but two: Ser Richard wearing a simple fur-lined cloak over spell-steel plate, and Dany hiding heavenly wings of borrowed power under a simple glamour. After one final deep breath you speak familiar words three times three and find yourself on yet more familiar shores... Dragonstone.

    The isolated beach you had chosen has changed little since last you saw it: crashing waves over sands streaked with dirty black dragon-glass, the mournful cries of gulls, and of man not a trace to be seen save a fishing boat in the distance. "Come on the path to the village is this way," you call to the others, turning your back to the sea and towards the looming sharp-edged shadow of the Dragonmount, and beneath it like a slumbering wyrm crowned in sharp crests and spikes to pierce the heavens the ancestral seat of your House.

    "It looks almost forlorn," Dany says thoughtfully as the three of you walk up the crumbling path from the shore.

    "How do you mean?" you ask.

    "It was one thing for a cousin Stannis to rule here," she says with far less vitriol than when she had first named the lord that in mockery. "At least he had a dragon's blood. But a lion of Lannister has no place in a dragon's roost."

    "You should be careful saying things like this where others may hear," Ser Richard warns.

    Dany snorts. "If I wished to take this place by strength of sorcery could the garrison stop me much, Viserys?"

    "Judging from the numbers of Dragonseeds and their kin who dared the passage to the Stepstones on strength of rumor and hearsay, I do not think they would even try," you reply. "Still, to fly the dragon banner from those towers is to call for war. Even should the Usurper be so craven as to not dare raise his banners over such a thing, it would still place us in the uncomfortable situation of imprisoning Stannis' family, or else letting them loose."

    "Damned if you do and damned if you don't," Dany sighs. After a few more steps walking in silence she adds, "Might we at least heal Stannis' daughter? There is no reason to put a name to the deed, and it is a cruel thing to suffer the scars of Greyscale."

    What do you answer?

    [] Agree to let Dany heal Shireen while you recover Rhaella's bones

    [] Argue against it
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: Considering how powerful you are, there is no need for plans unless you want to do something big like assassinating Tygett.
     
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    • Hrm, Lya's going to need to figure out how to reproduce the medium size crossbow variant. @DragonParadox how many non-metal parts does it contain?
     
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