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

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Part MDCCCXIV: Castling
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    Twenty-Second Day of the First Month 293 AC

    You never understood Tor, not truly, beyond his most base and fundamental desire. What you saw of him was unlovely to be sure, but was it any worse then what the likes of Saan did, still less Azema? Anger still burns in your gut... Why? A strange thing to fall into contemplation at a time like this. Yet if not now, as part of you already plans the best and swiftest way to take a life, then when? Behind your flesh-mask you have all the time one could ask for even here upon the busy streets of Pentos...

    At last the answer comes to you: you wish to make an end of Tor 'Longstrider' because he compelled you and your friends into becoming complicit in his sins, naught but tools to his use, and serving no higher purpose than his own aggrandizement. You have done things dark and terrible, but never for so petty a cause as personal power. Whether it is virtue of pride that drives you is more than you can say, and just as you are unwilling to condemn a man to death on impulse so too do you refuse to be locked in eternal indecision.

    After assuring yourself as best you can that the man before you is the treacherous Braavosi mage, you quickly catalogue his wards: a shroud of unseen armor and an anchoring in earth's strength just as you now bear. It will not save him, you vow.

    You motion inconspicuously to Ser Richard and whisper the plan in his ear upon a spell wrought of wind. Another man might have hesitated or at least questioned a slaying in broad daylight. Not so Ser Richard Lonmouth who has been with you since your days as a companion of thieves, murderers, and thugs. Honor has its place, but it is not here this day.

    The two of you drift closer to Tor, though not directly towards him through the crowded marketplace. Where is he going, you wonder, even as you call on memories of old to borrow arcane powers not your own, spells not of war but stealth and deception.

    You linger in the mouth of an alley, side by side, Ser Richard unseen as you are but also shrouded in uncanny silence... and then you cast forth an unraveling and on its heels you speak a single word. By its power you make your play like in Cyvasse. The world blurs with a painful lurch as even surprised and striped of his protections Tor almost withstands the spell by will alone. Let it not be said of the old man that he was not strong of will as he was dark of heart.

    Around you shoppers gasp and point in shock... though more amazed than alarmed at seeing a man vanish into thin air. You swiftly turn on your heel. There you see with relief and, if you are being honest, surprise, Tor lying in the alley in a rapidly expanding pool of his own blood. Just like that your task is done.

    What do you do next?

    [] Take the body and return to Sorcerer's Deep, you would not put it past Tor to set up contingencies in the event of his death

    [] Store the body away and continue your watch.

    [] Write in

    OOC: Tor did have a small chance, but it was only small since you guys did achieve total surprise and you used clever tactics.
     
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    • Well if that is done we should take skull for questioning and loot where ever he was hiding out.
     
    @DragonParadox - can we transmute it to something small that won't start to smell?
    Also: Yay!
    [X] Use the conch to prevent decomposition, Store the body away and continue your watch.

    Artimis... He uh, really loves narrative causality.

    I still can't get over the fact he was in pentos.
     
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    I think it's a first time thread didn't even try to talk first. You went all "Murder him and then kill him again!" at the very sight of Tor.
    Not that I don't understand the feelings, but really?

    [X] Take the body and return to Sorcerer's Deep, you would not put it past Tor to set up contingencies in the event of his death
     
    [X] Take the body and return to Sorcerer's Deep, you would not put it past Tor to set up contingencies in the event of his death
     
    Hrm, we'd be storing him in our only bag of holding. I'd prefer a method that would prevent contingencies like his reviving as a vengeful undead, or a delayed resurrection or his body exploding violently or something like that, by not leaving an intact body, nor storing it in our bag of holding.
     
    :evil:

    This truly is the turn of loose ends.

    30,000 IM of Crafting Materials
    Plane of Earth & Plane of Air trading contacts
    Waymar gets a griffon (and so does Tyene)
    We get a resurrection scroll for Elia
    We get an identification ritual
    Iron for the Legion & Night's Watch
    Dracolich dealt with
    Shadow Tower functional
    Both rogue Tiamat clerics executed and perma-killed
    Illyrio robbed
    Illyrio's wizard disintegrated
    Information about the Golden Company & Tiamat cult gathered
    Landwarden bound to colossal heart tree
    Lich executed
    Fungus Forge acquired
    Archon Alliance in full swing
    Tor executed

    @DragonParadox, this is the best most productive turn ever. :D

    Also, get the skull, yes, but also use the rest of his corpse for Create Treasure Map. That has a time limit of 24 hours after death.
     
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    Huh.
    You know, this honestly feels like birthday gift come early.
    It's only, what *counts on fingers* seven months away?
    Eh, I saw this thread first time around that time a year ago, it counts.

    I find myself honestly amazed at having no more targets to turn my salt-flow to.
    Hell, I don't even care about Tiamat minions, aside obvious sacrificial potential, right now!
    No clerics, no dracolich, no Tor...
    Oi-wei, @DragonParadox, even though it was clearly dice that decided it, thank you for allowing us to tie up this lose end.

    And if I may, @Artemis1992 , the sheer fact that anyone can die like this if we are smart and lucky is something I greatly appreciate in this quest - DP doesn't force narratively good pieces against logic and common sense, like oh so many quest/dungeon masters tend to. This whole thing being "anticlimactic" is actually really good in my opinion. To think of it, having gotten over my earlier mini-bout of saltiness, the same went with dracolich. And I don't grieve over it either.
     
    Diomedon said:
    Hrm, we'd be storing him in our only bag of holding. I'd prefer a method that would prevent contingencies like his reviving as a vengeful undead, or a delayed resurrection or his body exploding violently or something like that, by not leaving an intact body, nor storing it in our bag of holding.
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    Viserys: "I present to you, the corpse of Tor the Asshole!" *Pulls from BoH*
    Undead Tor: "YOU!!!!!"
     
    Diomedon said:
    Hrm, we'd be storing him in our only bag of holding. I'd prefer a method that would prevent contingencies like his reviving as a vengeful undead, or a delayed resurrection or his body exploding violently or something like that, by not leaving an intact body, nor storing it in our bag of holding.
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    1. Cast Geas with "Do what you want" on yourself.
    2. Use Oath of Blood on yourself
    3. Immediatly become a free-willed, powerful Undead upon death.

    @DragonParadox
    Would that actually work?
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Plot-shields are bad GM-ing. He had reasonable protections for his skill level and character but I am done playing favorites with NPCs. That has brought about enough (understandable) complaints.
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    Fair.

    Honestly, I think we just overestimated this guy's level. Like, by 5 or so. We figured he'd have been wildly successful with his power growth now that magic is everywhere but apparently he either played it very carefully or his class just isn't that good.
     
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    DragonParadox said:
    Plot-shields are bad GM-ing. He had reasonable protections for his skill level and character but I am done playing favorites with NPCs. That has brought about enough (understandable) complaints.
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    I know and I'm not really serious about plotshields.

    But I'm worried.

    If we can pull of such a driveby kill any enemy who gets lucky and has a few good spells can do so too.
    We are not always walking around in combat-groups.
     
    Duesal said:
    @DragonParadox, now that Tor is dead can we learn how his class worked?
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    His class is a variation on something from the same third party D&D book the Seeker comes from. It's called a Wine Drinker. the Wine is the blood of arcane casters... and outsiders... and just about anything powerful and/or magical. He got pretty hefty bonuses at the cost of effectively being a living vampire with all the issues that caused.
     
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