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

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[X] Return home to interrogate the Shadowbinder-Cleric, get Dany and Malarys for that
-[X] Curse the turtle with reduced Wisdom and saves, put her under the Anchor-tree and then unturtle her, bind her and gag her while Richard is ready to hit her and Malarys to Counterspell
-[X] Shadow Cast Mind Fog on her, the Bloodwish for Probe Thoughts
-[X] Search for the following answers (Placeholder)
-[X] Once you have what you want let Dany talk to her about whatever she wanted to talk about
-[X] Then Shadowcast Dominate Person and order her to tell you everything that might be helpful against Tiamat

@Duesal questions?
 
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I too am glad things ended this way, never thought i would agree with waymar.
*Shudders*
Ugh, alright, back to business, we could use the time to bind Aebys and maybe Contact the Caravan to get things going.
@DragonParadox does the sarnori Caravan have one of our arcane marks?
 
Rereading our "Lost Treasures" section of the common equipment pool is just plain awesome. There's a little "how it was disposed of" section which is just great to reread without context! And just as you start to think "no, it's deliberately phrased to be awesome and misleading" you realise that it it, in fact, all true!
 
@Artemis1992 add having her tell us ancient Valyria's lore, mayhaps have a pendragon write everything down?
Also, the same about her magics. We can make an entire book on shadow-binding just from her knowledge.
 
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Snowfire said:
Being honest here, for me it would depend on how she converted and what she had to offer. Not that I see it as likely, but there are a few things that I'd see as enough to prompt a stay of execution - not that she'd get much in the way of 'life' given the probable punishment for what she did. If she was turned in the same way Bitch Granny was trying to convert Dany, then I'm actually rather sympathetic. And Dany probably will be too.
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The most that would accomplish is being fed to the Old Gods rather than being fed to Yss. Dany was also a cleric of Tiamat, but you didn't see her damning the world with apocalypse scenarios. I'm decidedly unsympathetic. She is absolutely not going free even if Dany asks for it.
Artemis1992 said:
@Duesal questions?
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1. Describe the exact number and power of all magics in Illyrio's and Tiamat's employ, along with where you last heard they were located. Differentiate which ones are under Illyrio and which ones are under Tiamat.
2. Speak of all the monsters conjured by Tiamat. With the drakes, what type are they? How strong? What are their abilities? With the Abishai, how many are there? What demons have been called? What other creatures of magic are there?
3. Describe all current schemes being carried out by Illyrio and Tiamat. Include everything in Prime Material as well as beyond.
4. Does the captain of the Golden Company still carry Blackfyre? If not, then who? What abilities did you know it to possess?
5. Does Illyrio have allies aside from Tiamat that you know of?
6. What did you see in the dreamland during your centuries-long slumber.
7. We know there is a Blackfyre descendant, a budding champion of Tiamat. The Abishai as good as told us when they first came to this world. Speak of him and all his abilities. What type of magic does he have? Does he have any dragon eggs?
8. What magic items are in the possession of the mages among the Golden Company? (not out of greed, to get an idea of what we're up against)
9. Where do you get most of your magic items?
10. Tell us of the Sorcerer King of Nefer, his abilities, and magical lineage. How powerful is he? What is his temperament? How did the Golden Company come to contract under him and what is the reward for fighting his wars?
11. Speak of all the ruins you know of and what treasures are said to dwell there as well as what monsters guard them.
12. Speak of all you know of Old Valyria.
13. Where have you hidden your treasures?
14. What do you know of the Smith's nature?
15. What do you know of the Shadow Dragon in Tiamat's thrall? What other dragons are there?

These questions should be asked to both.
 
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@Artemis1992 We could wait until tomorrow, the 19th, so that Tyene and Garin will be back in SD. She's our go to source for Bestow Curse spells. We would need to wait for Malarys and Dany to prepare them anyway.

On top of using Bestow Curse to handicap her, we should also include casting Blindness on her until it sticks.
 
egoo said:
@Artemis1992 add having her tell us ancient Valyria's lore, mayhaps have a pendragon write everything down?
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Yes, once she's Dominated we can try to wring such things out of her.

For now I want answers for Probe Thought questions, so it's a bit more limited
Duesal said:
1. Describe the exact number and power of all magics in Illyrio's and Tiamat's employ, along with where you last heard they were located. Differentiate which ones are under Illyrio and which ones are under Tiamat.
2. Speak of all the monsters conjured by Tiamat. With the drakes, what type are they? How strong? What are their abilities? With the Abishai, how many are there? What demons have been called? What other creatures of magic are there?
3. Describe all current schemes being carried out by Illyrio and Tiamat. Include everything in Prime Material as well as beyond.
4. Does the captain of the Golden Company still carry Blackfyre? If not, then who? What abilities did you know it to possess?
5. Does Illyrio have allies aside from Tiamat that you know of?
6. What did you see in the dreamland during your centuries-long slumber.
7. We know there is a Blackfyre descendant, a budding champion of Tiamat. The Abishai as good as told us when they first came to this world. Speak of him and all his abilities. What type of magic does he have? Does he have any dragon eggs?
8. What magic items are in the possession of the mages among the Golden Company? (not out of greed, to get an idea of what we're up against)
9. Where do you get most of your magic items?
10. Tell us of the Sorcerer King of Nefer, his abilities, and magical lineage. How powerful is he? What is his temperament? How did the Golden Company come to contract under him and what is the reward for fighting his wars?
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Could we keep it to shorter questions for now?
Probe Thoughts gives you answers withing one round, so propably stay away from those that require longer answers.

We can ask all that if we manage to Dominate her without tripping some safety-measure.
 
Duesal said:
The most that would accomplish is being fed to the Old Gods rather than being fed to Yss. Dany was also a cleric of Tiamat, but you didn't see her damning the world with apocalypse scenarios. I'm decidedly unsympathetic. She is absolutely not going free even if Dany asks for it.
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Dany was in service to Tiamat for...how long exactly? A year? And we freed her at that point because she was already beginning to get pushed too far. This Cleric was stuck in the Dreamlands for centuries. You can be as unsympathetic to that as you want, but Malarys is clearly an outlier in this regard. If she fell late, can offer something (she's a high level Cleric, of course she can) and is willing to accept penance towards eventual Atonement (the spell) then I see absolutely no reason not to take the opportunity once proper safeguards have been applied.

I doubt it will come to this, to be fair, but if it does...

Let me put this in dragony/magpie terms. Looting one of Tiamat's few high power clerics from her is far more satisfying than killing them all. And that's what turning her would involve. If Dany thinks she's viable, and Malarys is able to offer effective means of control whilst she serves out her sentence of not-death, then I'll be interested as hell.

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inb4 Danny crits 20 times and converts Tiamat herself
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No, no, the eventual plan is that Dany loots all of Tiamat's domains :p
 
Snowfire said:
Let me put this in dragony/magpie terms. Looting one of Tiamat's few high power clerics from her is far more satisfying than killing them all. And that's what turning her would involve. If Dany thinks she's viable, and Malarys is able to offer effective means of control whilst she serves out her sentence of not-death, then I'll be interested as hell.
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I agree in principle, but she set up an end of world trap. That requires hell of a good explanation.
 
Snowfire said:
Dany was in service to Tiamat for...how long exactly? A year? And we freed her at that point because she was already beginning to get pushed too far. This Cleric was stuck in the Dreamlands for centuries. You can be as unsympathetic to that as you want, but Malarys is clearly an outlier in this regard. If she fell late, can offer something (she's a high level Cleric, of course she can) and is willing to accept penance towards eventual Atonement (the spell) then I see absolutely no reason not to take the opportunity once proper safeguards have been applied.

I doubt it will come to this, to be fair, but if it does...

Let me put this in dragony/magpie terms. Looting one of Tiamat's few high power clerics from her is far more satisfying than killing them all. And that's what turning her would involve. If Dany thinks she's viable, and Malarys is able to offer effective means of control whilst she serves out her sentence of not-death, then I'll be interested as hell.
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The greed argument falls on deaf ears for once. I'm completely unmoved and want those clerics dead at all costs. Fortunately for me Dany is also not entirely sympathetic since she did see them try to start apocalypses out of spite, so I'm not too worried they won't end up as fertilizer.
Artemis1992 said:
I'm thinking more like Speak with Dead questions, where short and precise questions yield better results than asking for monolgues.

But maybe @DragonParadox could tell us what we should expect from the spell and how open a question can be to get a decent answer.
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Alright, yes/no questions it is. Give me a minute.
 
MTB said:
I agree in principle, but she set up an end of world trap. That requires hell of a good explanation.
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Tiamat. That is all.

Look at the effect she had on Dany. Extend that across centuries. It does stuff to your morality. Yes, it requires one hell of a good explanation, but I'm willing to listen. And if Dany + Malarys are able to agree on her being a potential rehabilitation candidate, hells to the yes am I jumping for it. And no, I don't see that as likely, but you never know. No one expected Dany to steal concept Cleric-hood from Tiamat, after all.
 
Ah well. Thread wants to clean up loose ends with the two freed days so:

[X] Artemis1992

Seeing as we're doing the Lys Tree soon, we'll need to turtle birdbrain, and the shadow priest also. Brainstorming for the OG reward. What do we want from getting the Landwarden bonded to the Heart Tree?
 
We need for Lya to upgrade Viserys' PfE Amulet so it becomes slotless. That way he can wear the Greater Star of Wisdom and have Lesser Restoration available to heal his own Charisma damage from using Blood Wish.
 
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