A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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The main difference is getting all the corpses as loot rather than just a few. But @TotallyNotEvil, regarding this
I've seen zero mention of delaying the festival in the update. You need to specify it in your vote if you want it to happen.
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Is there any need? We will already show up at the most important part.
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For one thing it's nice insurance to have it in a vote if we ever need to refer back to it with DP.
Most of all @TotallyNotEvil, this:
DP is presenting it as an option, but it's not a guaranteed option unless you specify it. If you don't specify it, the default is that the festival just goes on while we're gone and we miss all of it and don't even get to show up at the end.
And yes, delaying the festival is necessary. Half the thread has been looking forward to this for months, and while this opportunity is insanely lucrative and shouldn't be passed up, there's also no reason for us to miss the festival if we can just delay the whole thing by a few days. It would be incredibly unfair to everyone who's been planning for the festival if they don't even get to see it from Viserys' POV. This is an easy fix and doesn't even really register as a sacrifice on our part.
Is there a need to not delay the festival?
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Well, there you go.
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Yss bless the dark pit in your chest that your heart left when it was removed.
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Thanks TNE.
By the way, I wanna bring attention back to this beauty:
I would like at least three of these things. Two for the main party (one to be kept with Viserys, a second to go with whichever party members happen to be sent off somewhere), and the last one to be loaned out to baby adventurers.
The purposes are thus:
1. If a Party Member or Baby PC or anyone important dies, they can just be put in the back until brought back to us, and then restored to life. This would make sending out the baby PCs considerably less dangerous if they don't have to worry about getting their friend's dead body back to us in time.
2. To preserve any and all monster corpses that happen to be valuable to would make a nice trophy.
3. Discount Bag of Holding
So, we could have Leila use 600 IM to make three Bags of Corpse-Ferrying. With the same amount of money we could have Lya make four of them, but that honestly isn't worth the Lya time when we've got a perfectly capable crafting assistant who can do it. A discount of 150 IM isn't even worth the consideration considering all the more important stuff Lya should be crafting.
By the way, I wanna bring attention back to this beauty:
I would like at least three of these things. Two for the main party (one to be kept with Viserys, a second to go with whichever party members happen to be sent off somewhere), and the last one to be loaned out to baby adventurers.
The purposes are thus:
1. If a Party Member or Baby PC or anyone important dies, they can just be put in the back until brought back to us, and then restored to life. This would make sending out the baby PCs considerably less dangerous if they don't have to worry about getting their friend's dead body back to us in time.
2. To preserve any and all monster corpses that happen to be valuable to would make a nice trophy.
3. Discount Bag of Holding
So, we could have Leila use 600 IM to make three Bags of Corpse-Ferrying. With the same amount of money we could have Lya make four of them, but that honestly isn't worth the Lya time when we've got a perfectly capable crafting assistant who can do it. A discount of 150 IM isn't even worth the consideration considering all the more important stuff Lya should be crafting.
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Will have to enlarge it to fit in monsters, you'd fit two humans max with it's 300 pound limit.
[X] Snowfire
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I think buying a few scrolls of Shrink Item and handing them out to whoever goes out on an adventure wouldn't be amiss. Presumably they'd only be used for truly valuable loot.
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Symbolism. We sacrificed Damphair on the 6th day of the First month. We need to be there.
How about this, we don't have to delay the Festival. 5 Days travel with the Shaitans, faster with spectral steeds I think, we'll be home by the 6th day. Just in time to give a speech. Advise Alinor to proceed without us for the opening.
The first and second day could be interludes. Slice of life, of the people of the Deep are the most amazing ones in this quest.
[X] Escort the small company of Shaitans and their mysterious charge to the Opaline Vault, after completing your business with the Xorn (5 days journey)
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I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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I think it won't matter much either way. I mean I get the feeling that the populace appreciates the extra party time, but the greater part of the people who have come here have only remained because of personal loyalty. It'll be awhile yet before people start to think of SD as an civilized or prosperous place compared to other cities, even ones in the area. That we're a civilizing influence on the area is more emphasis than anything else.
Viserys is the civilizing influence, through which SD would not be possible in the first place otherwise. I want to get out on the streets and shake hands with people, ask them how they're enjoying their time, meet with people of means and influence, and generally speaking be visible. If delaying it makes it possible, then that's fine.
Giving a speech and disappearing right after makes us seem too aloof, when we're trying to craft an image as someone who, while busy, still makes time for the little people.
Viserys is the civilizing influence, through which SD would not be possible in the first place otherwise. I want to get out on the streets and shake hands with people, ask them how they're enjoying their time, meet with people of means and influence, and generally speaking be visible. If delaying it makes it possible, then that's fine.
Giving a speech and disappearing right after makes us seem too aloof, when we're trying to craft an image as someone who, while busy, still makes time for the little people.
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Yep, this looks suitably draconic. You do not have the material component though.
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We're absolutely going to start planning with this spell in mind.
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[X] TotallyNotEvil
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@Goldfish, @TotallyNotEvil, I want to use some magitek engineering to create a vessel that far eclipses the capabilities of a similar sized construct.
You won't need to buff something with a railgun to make it combat worthy.
You won't need to buff something with a railgun to make it combat worthy.
Vote closed.
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Maybe we should grab some trade goods unique to PM while we're at SD (salt, spices, wood, pearls... etc) so that we have something to show them in regards to what we have to trade? Also maybe we can sell that decanter of endless water that we've used like once, cause its bound to be valuable and unlike in MS its not contraband here.
Part MDCXCII: Of the Wardens of Stone
Of the Wardens of Stone
Second Day of the First Month 293 AC
The chance to enter the Opaline Vault a hero to at least House Ajhar, though you suspect more, and ensure that the deed which saw you gain that reputation is not for nothing, is far too tempting to ignore. From the subtly satisfied look that passes over Alyneah's features when you agree, you suspect that she knows it as well as you do, not that you mind entering such a beneficial deal.
Moving quickly, you sweep up a few of the less damaged pieces of your foes and place them in your enchanted bag before handing it off to Ser Richard to benefit from the protections of his own subtle arcane talents. Probably closing the barn door after the horse is well and truly over the horizon when it comes to divining what went on here from the agents of the Brazen Throne, but it might serve against an off hand or poorly worded question.
Though the presence of the Shaitans and their arc does slow you down it does not do so nearly as much as you had feared. Rather then simply walking beside the ark the common warriors meld into the stone to either side of your path to guard against foes similarly gifted. As for Alyneah herself, she sinks a little more than ankle deep into the stone, moving in a constant ripple born of her kinship with the earth and mastery over it. The Ark itself easily keeps up, gliding silently a few inches above the floor... a strange thing for earth genies to make.
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Thankfully the journey itself is quiet, the most unusual happenings being the stares of other travelers at seeing such mismatched company on the road. You do however gain a greater understanding of the arcane laws and perhaps even more complex unwritten codes of conduct of the shaitans... not that the latter stays unwritten for long. About half an hour into our conversation Malarys begins diligently taking notes, having extended his mastery of language.
At Dany's prompting Alyneah also speaks at length about her people's treatment of slaves, a matter flowing naturally from the fact that enslavement seems to be a exceptionally common punishment in the law of the Peerless Empire. This enslavement is always for a set period, though there is nothing preventing it from being far longer than any mortal lifetime, and it is always she insists voluntary, though her notion of the term certainly does not match yours. Even the most lowly of war captives or debased criminals may at any moment choose a painless death called Queáth, the Release. Having one's slaves take this path is seen as a sign of shame and even unfitness to hold authority within Shaitan society. This serves as a part though by no means all the incentive for slaves to be treated well, even very well by the measure of most lands you have visited.
"I see you have had more dealings with the debased and foolish efreeti," the genie commander says at last reading your bemusement by either your expressions or the nature of the questions both you and Dany ask. "Fire consumes where earth builds up. Better to preserve the servants one has and ensure that they are skilled and content in their tasks than drive an endless wave of suffering, screaming malcontents through the streets."
"A wise notion," Malarys says lifting his eyes from his notes. "Yet I cannot help but wonder, and I crave forgiveness in advance if this shows a mortal's misunderstanding of your folk, is this ideal always followed?"
"No," she admits with a sigh. "In that, we are not so different, I am afraid. You see it most frequently with war captives... oh not most of them, we are doing the poor wretches the efreeti drive into their slave armies a favor to take them into our service when they have a chance to surrender. However, there are some slaves who were favored in their service, particularly ones who share their blood, those are on occasion mistreated by particularly foolish masters."
"And I imagine it can happen with criminals too," you probe.
"Yes, though there are laws and strictures in place to prevent a slave from being taken with the purpose of venting one's rage as opposed to gaining recompense, they can be circumvented by both malice and even sheer happenstance. A law which can codify All That Is can rightly be named a philosopher's ideal... no less than that, a poet's fancy."
"That does not mean that thinking, reasoning beings should ever stop striving for it," Malarys interjects earning an approving nod.
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The Xorn greet you as heroes and Rock Shaker is of course excited to hear the tale of your journey and your battles. Alas you cannot spend more time with her and must instead hurry to deliver the iron and change your plans for the next few days to account for the journey to the Opaline Vault.
Once your delivery is done and your business with Alinor likewise, you come upon an unexpected trio, all wishing to return with you: Waymar, Maelor and Glyra.
"I'm sick and tired of sitting around, did too much of that as a fish," Waymar says cheerfully. "Besides I have to try out the new arm to make sure it works as well as the old."
As to the other two they are caught up in the thrill of discovery, of seeing strange new vistas beyond the circles of the world. "Always did want to see a city made of gold and gems like in the stories. Oh not do anything to it," he assures you. "I figure folk that can build a place like that are more then able to keep the likes of me from scratching the walls?"
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