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

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DragonParadox said:
Guys... Amrelath kind of wants to end his hellish existence soon, not in five years time.
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Still, this is going to be within reason.

Valaena's dragon egg is going to stay hers. It's explicitly been promised to her. Hell, given to her at this point. We're not taking it away.

But if we manage to find a dragon egg here, then maybe, if Amrelath is okay with being a freaking hatchling at the end of the ritual. He'd probably prefer not to, though.

The other option is to have Lya build him a new body entirely. We all know she's capable of doing it, too. And then using a ritual to ensure he turns into a living True Red.
das_slash said:
btw, @Takesis @Duesal how long till the bilestone in the seacaves is cleared? i want to see what DP has prepared for the blooming of the temple / the priests return.
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@das_slash, the Bilestone will be cleared and Breath Taker will return on the Thirteenth Day of the Second Month. That's ~26 days from now.
 
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Part MDCCLXIX: Dust on the Wind
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    • Dust on the Wind ​

    Seventeenth Day of the First Month 293 AC

    Even as you utter for the fourth and final time this day the words of power meant to cast your foe to dust, another transformation overtakes him. His stone form begins to melt, flowing like a wave of living mud over the stones of the broken temple... trying to flee through the cracks in the floor, you realize at once...

    A line of blood-red flame drawn from your heart's blood sears into the final stump of his form before it can melt entirely away, but for a moment it seems as though it would not be enough, that the Smith would be able to slide away, then Dany's voice rings out as she ascends on silver wings, a small dissonant note in the threads of time... and only a small pile of dust among which strange trinkets glitter.

    You take 1 Charisma damage

    Shining bright with the power of new life flowing from your sister's hands also Lya throws herself back from the sight of the blinded servitors. "I don't suppose you can get them... to stop that!" she shouts, her words flowing senselessly into a shout of arcane power that pushes one of the teetering creations of its feet.

    Lya heals 33 Damage

    As though avenging its fellow the other archer drops its now useless bow and hurls itself at Lya, flying light as a feather in defiance of its massive bulk. One first misses entirely... but the other cracks against her shoulder with a sickening crunch.

    Lya takes 23 Damage

    Throttling the instinct to lash out at the thing with fang, claw, and flame, you instead dive for the dust pile that had moments ago been the constructs' master and from among them you pull three silver figurines. Holding them together in one fist you command clearly in Low Valyrian: "Hold!"

    The two servitors freeze like the statues they so resemble, to your relief.

    "Maybe... I should look into... some armor... too," Lya says through clenched teeth as the power bound in her belt mends her wounds as thoroughly as Dany had done earlier, but also more slowly and hence painfully.

    Lya heals 23 Damage

    Even as she as she gingerly tests her newly-healed arm, she turns to the strange gate, eyes alight with interest. "This does not look like it will endure long, but it does not seem dangerous either. Of all the elements earth is normally the least volatile and I suspect the purpose of this arch was constructive, not destructive. We could just let it decay naturally while we tried to clear our other dangerous foes..."

    "But you would much rather stay here and try to tinker with it," you finish with a tired smile. The incomplete gate shines with a great deal of half-shaped potential and if anyone could make something useful out of it. Lya can. On the other hand, if you allow your foes to escape a second time, then they will surely go to ground in some even more distant and difficult to find place.

    What do you do?

    [] Stay and guard Lya as she tries to make something of the half-complete ritual

    [] Continue the assault
    -[] Write in plan

    [] Write in

    OOC: The reason the golems prioritized Lya is because she looked like a spell-caster and thus dangerous. They did not have standing orders for half-dragons.
     
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    • Deliste said:
    If he does become a Wyrmling he will magically retain his memories but such a young mind is physiologically malleable, perhaps he should spend some time with See Richard.
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    Sir Richard... Wyrmlingsitter....
    You know, I have a feeling he won't see too much difference from what he does now :D
     
    So the wizard is dead now? Also, @DragonParadox, I asked about magic items earlier and you told me that Dany couldn't exactly call out in the middle of battle, implying that there were items to be had aside from the control amulets. Can you tell us what we found now?
     
    Amrelath agreed to endure magical means of ensuring cooperation. What if we had him eat those Celestial fruit once he got a body?
     
    Duesal said:
    So the wizard is dead now? Also, @DragonParadox, I asked about magic items earlier and you told me that Dany couldn't exactly call out in the middle of battle, implying that there were items to be had aside from the control amulets. Can you tell us what we found now?
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    1. He is a small pile of dust
    2. The control tokens, a silver amulet in the shape of a star-burst, a pair of rings and a pair of golden gloves.
     
    We've got the golems we might as well use them.

    Leave them here to guard Lya or send them on the hunt to kill those worthless assholes who made the mistake to try us.
     
    No, let them guard Lya. And as far as I can tell, either remain behind and send Dany to reinforce the others, or leave Dany with Lya and go ourselves.

    I won't leave it totally to chance, but neither do I think Lya needs more backup than either Viserys or Dany. She does not need both to mess around with the ritual though. We just secured a couple of construct guardians for her.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    1. He is a small pile of dust
    2. The control tokens, a silver amulet in the shape of a star-burst, a pair of rings and a pair of golden gloves.
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    :D
    1. Wizard
    2. Tiamat Cleric
    3. Illyrio
    4. Wizard Apprentice 1
    5. Wizard Apprentice 2

    Top priority down, four more to go.

    @DragonParadox, does Lya think the ritual can be preserved for a bit if encased by a Resilient Sphere to keep its energies in place? We can even help direct it as she needs via Versatile Spellcaster and Bloodwish upon the battle's conclusion.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    No, it's decaying from the passage of time not any outside influence.
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    Hmmm... And @DragonParadox, so Lya is saying that in the time we'd spend on battle this ritual will fully decay? Also, does she have any idea what she wants to do with it?
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    Not on him which means he either keeps it somewhere else, or like Xor he does not have one through a feat.
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    I hope we don't have another case of the Mindflayer Wizard where he doesn't actually have a spellbook at all. I was hoping to get those sweet spells for Lya as part of the loot. Flesh to Stone would have been great.
     
    ...I'm kind of paranoid that we didn't in all actuality just kill this wizard and he was using some sort of disposable body...
    Quick, permakill some clerics to bury this saltening fear in hype!
    I eagerly await getting all notes and/or lore from all safehouses of these assholes.
     
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    1. Yes.
    2. Maybe empower the constructs somehow or try to create a permanent trickle of magic from the plane of earth which which later empower large-scale rituals or item creation.
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    :D Lya is honestly the best future wife Viserys could have possibly asked for. Her experiments are a delight.

    So basic plan, we leave Lya with the control tokens and golems to complete the ritual, and everyone else goes after the clerics?

    Honestly I'm more than a little tempted to wait for a full battleplan by Goldfish and TNE when they wake up. They probably have a bunch of must-dos before we go into battle.
     
    We won't really know what the situation looks like until we get there, so writing in a battleplan at this stage seems a bit pointless.

    Right now we're trying to decide just: Who is staying? Who is going? Is anyone going?

    I feel very paranoid about leaving Lya totally alone with a couple of constructs when we just proved that constructs are not some kind of innate trump card against spellcasting enemies. The best counter for spell casters, unsurprisingly, is other spellcasters. Or a surprise Richard to the face, but we can't all be Richard. The fabric of the universe couldn't handle all the sheer grit, not when it's already inhabited by Stannis.

    [X] Leave Lya the two keys for the Guardians present, Viserys takes the one for the other iron golem not here. Dany stays behind to watch over Lya while she works, Viserys moves to rapidly reinforce the others.

    Edit: Actually, don't back this. I still want to do all of that, but I just realized Goldfish will know if we should cast some buffs before leaving using the other two first. I confess I don't know how many spells everyone has left.
     
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    The minute long buffs should still be up, the round ones don't make sense to recast.
     
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