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

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Consensus on the vote?
Adhoc vote count started by Duesal on Jan 20, 2018 at 11:37 PM, finished with 141794 posts and 17 votes.
  • [X] Speak with the Children of the Forest again
    -[X] From the bottom of your heart thank Bloodraven for tolerating all of your many questions. He truly has been a good and caring uncle to you and Dany, and you will be sure to speak to him when you can.
    --[X] Give Bloodraven the bag of attuned obsidian sand so you can speak with him more regularly.
    --[X] Ask Bloodraven if there is anything he personally needs. We could retrieve it for him when we next visit.
    -[X] Talk to Soft Strider and Speaker to Men in particular and learn more of them.
    -[X] See if they and any other Singers would be interested in accompanying you to Sorcerer's Deep and staying there. They could see the world as magic reawakens, they could teach people of the Old Gods, they could meet many new creatures (minotaurs, Tritons, fey, Little Valyrians, etc).
    -[X] If they wish it, we could even take them to visit all over the rest of the world. Westeros, Essos, the Free Cites, etc. We could even look into their distant kin that Bloodraven told us about in Essos, the Ifeqevron.
    -[X] We could even take them to visit other planes entirely should they wish it.
    -[X] More than that, you would greatly appreciate any help in preparing for the Long Night.
    [x] Resurrect Rhaella
    [X] Magpie
    [x] huggle teh uncle
    [X] Magpie Knight
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firefrog600 said:
Bitch please I'm always batshit crazy
I waaaaaaant thisssss. pweeeeeeassssse
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In my time zone not sure which one your in it's like 3 in the morning so I repeat

Wake up tomorrow and try to explain your idea in a rational manner instead of this gargling baby talk:)
This coming from the guy who can't for the life of him stop trying to bring in Blade Magic and Wushu Martial Arts to a Sword and Sorcery game to be fair.
 
Hey! It's 9:30 AM in my timezone. DP can post if he wants!

[greed intensifies]

More seriously, while I do think that having a submarine would be great, it clearly needs to be able to Plane Shift or somehow escape angry high-level druids. Or Aboleths.
And it needs to be able to conveniently devastate the armies of the Deep Ones, because killing them all individually is a huge pain in the ass.
 
So the CotF are not Fey, not if they are mortal.
Any idea what else they might be?

Some proto-human, but wholly from the Material, race, or some Fey-mortal hybrid?
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
Hey! It's 9:30 AM in my timezone. DP can post if he wants!

[greed intensifies]

More seriously, while I do think that having a submarine would be great, it clearly needs to be able to Plane Shift or somehow escape angry high-level druids. Or Aboleths.
And it needs to be able to conveniently devastate the armies of the Deep Ones, because killing them all individually is a huge pain in the ass.
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We get the Deep One hating Monks from the Githzerai to do this in the most bloody and brutal way possible
 
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Part MDCXLII: The Singers' Choice
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    • The Singers' Choice​

    Nineteenth Day of the Twelfth Month 292 AC

    Before departing to seek out the Children, you hand Bloodraven a bag of attuned sand that you may speak to him more readily than in dreams. Alas the old sorcerer takes a careful look at the bag then shakes his head with a soft creek of the roots about him.

    "A clever sorcery, your grace, but it cannot cross the wards that guard this place from unfriendly eyes... they could of course be broken and remade with this in mind, but tearing down one's fortress on the eve of war is unwise... particularly as you intend to leave me with even fewer attendants than I already have."

    "You know, that really is quite disconcerting," you play along.

    "A poor seer I would be if I did not know," he answers. Again the withered shadow of a smile passes over his weathered features and you are glad to see it.

    ***​

    Almost as though they had read your mind, which you would not count a wholly impossible in this place, you find a small company of the Children of the Forest awaiting you in a chamber near your room. Most seem dressed for the road, garbed in cloaks of russet leaves and with daggers of stone at their belt, a few with small weirwood bows and stone-headed arrows strapped to their backs. Among them you pick out Soft Strider sitting near a couple of others who have the look of kin.

    "Aren't you being a bit hasty?" Dany says, sounding like she is on the verge of giggling. Ser Richard merely sighs, resigned to the strangeness he has accepted into his life.

    Speaker-to-Men addresses you then, she among the few who does not look ready to depart. "We have been considering the matter you wish to set before us for nine-and-ten days. Some did indeed count it hasty, but in that the nearness of death is kin to the heedlessness of youth."

    No doubt seeing the confusion writ on all three of your faces she adds. "Pardons, I did not mean to speak in riddles. Long have we been fading from this world and now our long twilight is ending. Final night comes for us and even here beneath the earth and we can hide from it no longer. Thus some among us have chosen to slip out from from beneath the hills and the rocks, the tangled roots of the trees and the wards of the gods one final time. Perhaps there they will perish beneath the sun, setting the tongues of men wagging a few centuries more... or perhaps not." The hope in her voice is almost painful to hear.

    Before you can answer Soft Strider surprises you further by haltingly saying in the Common Tongue: "I... would... learn to speak... as man."

    What do you answer?

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    OOC: I left all the goodbye elements out since that fits more after the resurrection. Anyway I felt the scene was so surreal from Viserys' perspective that it deserves a vote, even if I'm not expecting any surprises.
     
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    • [X] "All are welcome in our realm. We have a great many things to show you."
    -[X] Move on to the resurrection.

    I think that's as good a note as we can end on here. All the high points were probably mentioned in the "psuedoreal" conversation we "potentially" could have had with them, hence the hopeful looks that maybe this isn't the end for them. I think our best bet for talking them out of any fatalism is going to be trying to reconnect with the Ifequevron in the east. If we can find them, that is.
     
    Bit of a "take that!" I guess. Though our willingness to just take it on the face and move on shows we're going to start having expectations of people/stuff looting itself for us from now on.
     
    Crake said:
    Bit of a "take that!" I guess. Though our willingness to just take it on the face and move on shows we're going to start having expectations of people/stuff looting itself for us from now on.
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    It is meant to illustrate the Children's sheer strangeness as well as their misunderstanding of men. Their reasoning went something like this: "men are hasty so surely they will appreciate it if we just skip to our decisions and without waiting for the offer we know is going to happen."
     
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    You know, we could start looting encounters and add strong minions by; Charm Monster -> Awaken -> Diplomance further. :ogles:
     
    It does raise an interesting question. Sure, they would likely not have debated and thus gathered a neat and collected group to venture south with us if we had not voted to make the pitch to them.

    But then Soft Strider seemed very interested in journeying south and seeing the world.

    So would she have approached us on her own initiative if we had not thought to ask?

    Rhetorical question, but it does sort of highlight that people have their own motivations and stuff, since we hadn't even asked them yet, but they took the initiative to act on their own regardless.
     
    Self-looting people? This is the greatest thing ever.

    [X] "It would be sad to see yours pass from this world and fully into the realm of tales and myth. We all would be poorer for it. My realm shall greet you with open arms and my aid I pledge should you find a way to turn back the coming twilight of your people."
     
    DragonParadox said:
    1. Tree Stride is self only
    2. 17 CotF including Soft Strider
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    Oh damn, no Teleport, no Treestride regardless of sacrifices and too many for Windwalk.
    We actually have to bring 18 people +party through the whole North by foot?

    Is there any chance at all that we could go to the nearest location of an Other-servant on the map and sacrifice it for a better option?
     
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