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Thing is, Viserys hasn't gotten something new since before Mantary. The last things where the Runestaff of Charming (which we never use, by the way) and the Quicken Rod.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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It's time well spent. Getting the item identified with all its effects figured out beforehand is pretty important. And it's not like Dany isn't the best choice for this particular sword anyway.
That aside, I'm super excited about this weirwood staff. What are we going to do with Viserys' old Runestaff of Charming now that we're getting this new staff?
One solution there is to slow down the amount of loot that goes Dany's way. The Horn of the Twice Fallen was the biggest offender. In cases where we're hoping for something like crafting materials we probably need to make sure DP knows we don't want all of the treasure value to go into an item that only Dany can use.
EDIT: It's a great item, and very useful, but I wouldn't have gone for it considering how much Dany already had and how many crafting materials we were hoping for.
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Weirwood Staff. If that isn't for Viserys, I'll eat my hat1.
[1] My hat is purely a rhetorical device. I do not own a hat.
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I frankly doubt that the staff will be anything great. We have two rune-staffs right now and I can count the number of uses we got out of them on one hand. Did we ever use the Fireball / WoF staff except for Lya to learn the latter spell?
I can lend you a very nice fedora to eat.
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I dont think a pantry full of Spiders is a step down from anything.
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It's not a Runestaff, so we are extremely cheap with its charges.
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You don't own a hat?
Quick everybody, donate hats to Diomedon!
I doubt the pantry will have somekind of Gate glass artifact which malfunctioned and filled a jar of jam with giant spiders. I do think thete might be something that would be at home in Australia though.
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So is every major character from the novels getting a class because i would say some like cercei pr9baby don't have more than a few levels in noble and not even that much bexa8we they aren't trained and their only qualities of their classes would be that they have noble blood or Jeffrey the little evil fuck can't.do anything right and has pretty much no skills but in sadism and torture?
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I was mostly referring to fancy stuff that is unique to Viserys, not the generic stuff we have crafted for half the party.
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Viserys is himself the fancy stuff. Anything else makes him shine less
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You don't own a hat?
Quick everybody, donate hats to Diomedon!
Why would I need a hat? I have hair. Too much hair. All the hair. It needs trimmed, really.
I think it's the opposite. Viserys wants the fanciest of stuffs, so he doesn't want to settle for less fancy things. We want Blackfyre, Aegon the Conqueror's crown (recovered from Dorne), etc.
This staff should qualify. A weirwood staff gifted to us by our sorcerous mentor figure in the heart of the power of the old gods is weighty enough for Viserys. Much better than those staves we've been looting off of dead people.
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Not everyone gets a class no, only those that know how to fight, because classes sre how you define fighting Styles and prowess in dnd.
As for Joffrey, DP considered the idea of granting him warlock powers, but then decided that even Evil power-granting eldritch abominations have some standards.
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I would actually prefer to give Blackfyre to Dany, since the thing will be tainted to hell and back by Tiamat before we get it.
Why would I need a hat? I have hair. Too much hair. All the hair. It needs trimmed, really.
I think it's the opposite. Viserys wants the fanciest of stuffs, so he doesn't want to settle for less fancy things. We want Blackfyre, Aegon the Conqueror's crown (recovered from Dorne), etc.
This staff should qualify. A weirwood staff gifted to us by our sorcerous mentor figure in the heart of the power of the old gods is weighty enough for Viserys. Much better than those staves we've been looting off of dead people.
Edit: Also, we don't want to give you hats to wear, but as dietary supplements.
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I'd prefer to work to remove her taint with extensive divine help from our gods. That's a sword for kings, I want it to go to Viserys.
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The sword is very old and will spend a few years at best in the hands of Her champion, if at all.I would actually prefer to give Blackfyre to Dany, since the thing will be tainted to hell and back by Tiamat before we get it.
Edit: Also, we don't want to give you hats to wear, but as dietary supplements.
I think any taint would be rather shallow.
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I didn't get to vote, but i'd have voted Viserys.
Suppose we will get to pick once remote abilities are more determined.
Watch as Dark Sister is the only special weapon and Blackfyre is some generic shit.
Suppose we will get to pick once remote abilities are more determined.
Watch as Dark Sister is the only special weapon and Blackfyre is some generic shit.
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Glyra was funny and interesting even before she turned good, turning her good made her better, but she was a net positive before that.
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Cersei will probably be a 3rd level Noble with 10 levels in the Stupid Evil Bitch PrC.
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Actually, do you think Doran made the effort to protect the crown from scrying and / or divination?
Because making a point of reclaiming the crown by just taking it from its vault right after we ressurect Elia would really smack down the Dornish. Yes I am still annoyed at them seeking other avenues and Braavos not being good enough, *cough* Sealord is our ally, *cough* so they look towards Volantis of all places.
Because making a point of reclaiming the crown by just taking it from its vault right after we ressurect Elia would really smack down the Dornish. Yes I am still annoyed at them seeking other avenues and Braavos not being good enough, *cough* Sealord is our ally, *cough* so they look towards Volantis of all places.
Part MDCXXVIII: A King's Staff
A King's Staff
Eighteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 292 AC
You take the sword still in its sheath, careful not to touch the hilt with its pattern of flames. The ruby in the center of the crossguard seems to wink just for a moment in the mage-lights like a sleepy eye, whether by fancy or truth you cannot say. "I will take this for my own, but as you say I will heed your warning and not unsheathe it until its nature is made clear."
Your words are greeted with a slight relaxation of the shoulders from Ser Richard that might as well be a sigh of relief from the stoic knight, a look of mind disappointment and curiosity thwarted from Dany, and a considering tilt of the head from Bloodraven, as much as he can move his head amid the tangle of roots. "Better too much caution than too little in matters of sorcery..."
"Particularly when it costs little," you add as you wrap the hilt of the blade in dark cloth another of the Children hands you wordlessly. "Would such a blade be potent against..." you hesitate.
"You may name them by the names they are known here," the Last Greenseer assures you. "Here the earth protects... and as to the matter of dragonsteel, it should, for it too is fire bound to earth and made stronger thereby."
"What of the staff?" Dany asks, looking at it intensely, likely with more than mortal eyes.
"The gods as you discovered hunger for blood, yet they also reward sacrifice in kind," Bloodraven replies. "So too this staff must be fed by some of the bearer's own power to call forth its powers. Some are petty, though I would not have called them thus in my youth, to know the land as a king must and a traveler often needs, and to call forth a unkindness of ravens to watch from the sky without rousing suspicion."
"Is not the air the domain of our foes?" you ask, intrigued as you reach out for the staff. It feels unnaturally well-balanced in your hand, though you doubt its true purpose is to serve as a mere weapon. Indeed you can scarce imagine a piece of wood, however blessed, being mightier than tooth, claw, and roaring flame.
"That it is, your grace, but it is not only my mother's Blackwood blood that flows in these old veins, nor only the sap of weirwood red. Though I have ridden no dragon, my soul feels the call of the sky." There is pride now in the ancient's voice, faint beneath the rasping whisper.
"You named these lesser powers. What of the greater?" Dany asks.
"It can serve to carry the bearer between any true Heart Trees no matter how far his feet carried him," comes the reply. "Thus might you know your realm, your grace, and your subjects, loyal and not."
The word holds a wealth of meaning, spoken with a courtier's subtlety, long unused but not forgotten.
Runestaff of the Old Gods
Description: This staff seems at first worked of smooth bone, and only at a second look might one see the tiny veins of thick red sap worked into what is in truth weirwood, light in the hand as a living thing thing would be, balanced between earth and sky, a pact made manifest, a key to hidden paths unwalked for an age.
Ability: A Runestaff of the Old Gods serves as a +2 quarterstaff and allows you to cast either of the following spells (each three times per day) by expending a prepared arcane spell or arcane spell slot of the same level or higher:
Description: This staff seems at first worked of smooth bone, and only at a second look might one see the tiny veins of thick red sap worked into what is in truth weirwood, light in the hand as a living thing thing would be, balanced between earth and sky, a pact made manifest, a key to hidden paths unwalked for an age.
Ability: A Runestaff of the Old Gods serves as a +2 quarterstaff and allows you to cast either of the following spells (each three times per day) by expending a prepared arcane spell or arcane spell slot of the same level or higher:
- Summon Swarm (Ravens only; Can see through their eyes as Chain of Eyes; Counts as a level 3 spell)
- Commune with Nature (Can find mineral deposits, copses of rare trees, etc)
This is a kingly tool, you realize, a thing meant not for the rush of battle but the trials of rule. A key it is also to enter the keeps of your foes, though that power is locked behind appeasing the Old Gods. If ever you might have been tempted to forget the cunning of the man upon the tangled throne, this will remind you aplenty. Still a question remains: "Would such passage be possible even beyond the borders of the world if a Heart Tree could be grown there?"
If your question comes as a surprise you cannot read it upon the ancient lined faced. For almost twenty heart-beats he lies silent, staring at things you cannot see, listening for voices you cannot hear. "So long as a tree can grow there a path can be opened, to see and to pass."
"And would such places be seemly to the gods?" you ask, to be sure.
"It would be confusing to some," he admits. Again the smile like a gash across his pale face. "It might do them good to look upon new things for the first time in many an age."
"What are the weirwood trees, truly?" Dany asks while you ponder this.
"They are the veins of the Earth and the... seat of the Greenseers, living and dead. More I cannot say, for some secrets are for those who Dream the Greendream alone," Bloodraven answers, though echoes carry behind his words. "If your curiosity would drive you to search on, I would recommend caution."
"If your gods forbid it shouldn't you be opposed to the notion entirely?" Ser Richard says, startled into speaking for the first time since you offered greetings.
"You must know something of my life, Ser Knight," Brynden Rivers alone replies. "Would you say it could belong to a priest?"
"And will they not hear you?" Dany presses, intrigued.
"If only they could hear each other's over the din... The drums that call to war and strife are stirring things, but they do not help one's hearing I fear." The words fall sharp from withered lips.
What do you ask next?
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OOC: This feels like a coherent whole and thus a good stopping point. For the next one I'd like a similar theme to the questions.
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@Azel, your words proved prophetic. Viserys won't even get to use the staff.
@DragonParadox, can Lya at least use the staff to learn a version of Tree Stride that doesn't rely solely on weirwoods?
@Azel, your words proved prophetic. Viserys won't even get to use the staff.
@DragonParadox, can Lya at least use the staff to learn a version of Tree Stride that doesn't rely solely on weirwoods?
- Viserys turns into a giant dragon man and has full casting, he does not really need a new weapon.
- Yes.