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

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Duesal said:
@Goldfish @Artemis1992

Can you guys give me a rough estimate of the CR of Daemons we're going to be up against with most of the party coming to the fight? I'll tailor the questions accordingly.
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No clue, to be honest. The Daemons shouldn't be very high CR creatures, IMO, or they would have already taken over Tyrosh and destroyed it in an orgy of blood and death.

They wouldn't be hiding among a cult.
 
We also need to question about the 3 major deities and how receptive the Second Sons would be to a direct bribe (or else) type of thing.
 
Add questioning about if we can pull off a silent attack on the Bleeding Tower with Garin, Aradia, Maelor, Glyra, Tyene.

Can we land a few troops on the southern beach to take the slums?

No time for full write-up yet.

@Diomedon, you got most of my important notes. See old Tyrosh post "Operation Westeros" for team compositions, though it's outdated.
 
Updated questions.

1. Do the Daemons know we intend to invade them this month?
2. Are there currently or capabilities of summoning any CR 15 or above Daemons in Tyrosh?
3. A few questions to narrow down the types of Daemons.
4. Is there any massive ritual going on this month in Tyrosh intended to be used against us if we invade?
5. Are there any mages of the 5th circle or above among the cultists?
6. Will the Second Sons be receptive to a bribe to keep out of the fighting and stand aside as we take the city?
7. Can we pull off a silent attack on the Bleeding Tower with Garin, Aradia, Maelor, Glyra, Tyene?
8. If we land a few troops on the southern beach to take the slums, will they face heavy resistance?

This leaves 5 questions left over to ask about the mages and the Daemons.
 
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I'd ask if each of the three primary deities would directly oppose our attempt, and then a separate question to ask if the drunken cannibal god would incite rioting and bloodletting.
 
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Interlude CCXXV: Sharpening Quills
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    First Day of the Second Month 293 AC

    The sounds of fevered scribbling filled the hall, almost like countless cats' claws scratching some great itch. A fitting thing given the temperament of his fellow students, Moric thought, his own hand moving almost without conscious direction. The thought held nothing of the anger it might once have done. Indeed it was almost fond...

    Every single man and woman in this hall had some claim to being in some ways different from his or her fellows, if only in their heads or else they never would have tried their hands at sorcery. Those without ambition to reach for power like onto the legends of old, or the king and his court, quietly excluded themselves before the first instructor had even opened his mouth to question the candidate, much less test them.

    Cats the lot of 'em waving their tails about, not mattering if they were back-alley moggies or some pampered highborn's get from the wrong side of the blanket. So, as cats were wont to do, they scratched and hissed and made the odd mess, though never within the halls of the Tower, least Lady Teana take note. No one ever forgot that she was more skilled then most of them could ever know in shaping the shadows that filled these halls. 'The appearance of power is almost as important as power,' she taught alongside the works of sorcery itself, explaining how an initiate could make the best of even the most petty and seemingly harmless magic. By that creed she lived by too, though so far no one had been bold, or insane enough to call her bluff.

    "Daydreaming again Moric," a voice whispered from his left. Mia... Sharp as a tack and just as likely to prick you if you weren't careful.

    Being almost ten years older than the speaker, he did not dignify it with any answer beyond a raised eyebrow... partly because he suspected he would lose the verbal exchange with the young Tryoshi-born girl unless she could give it his full attention.

    The other cause that made people rub together strangely in the scholarum's halls was the fact that you could not weigh the lore and wisdom one might hold in the simple balance of age. From those who were near-children to Old Hejnor with his flowing beard, all of them were 'initiates' and when they would be rid of that title was for the Lady and mayhaps the King to know and them to wonder. More than a few had bristled when Mia had been the first to reach the second circle of magic, her all of five and ten. Fools the lot of them. The little princess was a child, no 'almost' about it, and she could kill a man dead with a look or mend him from the brink of it.

    "...now let's see if you can actually make the warding ink, we are meant to be mages, not scribes at the end of the day." The brisk command called Moric back to paying full attention to his instructor. Lady Selyse occupied that odd place of being more than an initiate set to check the work of others, but not yet so mighty in her own right as to be a figure of whispered rumor. Still she was personable and patient enough to be respected for it and if nothing else she took things slow and simple.

    However in this case Moric did not fully agree with her. Being wizard was like being half scribe, half alchemist and and half painter... being one and a half people, that sounded about right for all the things they were expected to do and do right every time. Moric took a moment to fix the jest in his mind for later before dutifully setting to his task. He would master magic one day and he would be paid a hell of a lot more than half again what most men make for it.

    OOC: Before being windowed out for intelligence and diligence so they can actually use magic all your scholarium students are self-selected for being egotistical enough to think they deserve to use magic which still a mysterious and dangerous thing to people, even if in Sorcerer's Deep they are more likely to trust the mages than in most other places.
     
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    Azel said:
    Add questioning about if we can pull off a silent attack on the Bleeding Tower with Garin, Aradia, Maelor, Glyra, Tyene.

    Can we land a few troops on the southern beach to take the slums?

    No time for full write-up yet.

    @Diomedon, you got most of my important notes. See old Tyrosh post "Operation Westeros" for team compositions, though it's outdated.
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    I'm fairly distracted with RL, atm, unfortunately.
     
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    tarrangar said:
    Why wouldn't we do that? It's cheaper and it only take a day or 2 to go buy more.
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    I was just making sure that our extraplanar materials were appropriate for potion making, since they were purchased with the intent to enchant permanent items.

    @Everyone When I get home from work, I'll see about putting together a list of true potions for Kyla to brew and temporary potions for Viserys to create right before the invasion.
     
    ...There's no way for us to make more people apply for Scholarum, is there?
    If even in town of Sorcerer's Deep, one we can already name 'the most magical town on Planetos' only those who have mindset "of being worthy to use magic" apply... Our chances anywhere else aren't great.

    Hopefully, with time and SD becoming even more magical, with people all across the plane starting to see magic as a part of their daily lives, this mindset will stop being prevalent...
     
    egoo said:
    ...There's no way for us to make more people apply for Scholarum, is there?
    If even in town of Sorcerer's Deep, one we can already name 'the most magical town on Planetos' only those who have mindset "of being worthy to use magic" apply... Our chances anywhere else aren't great.

    Hopefully, with time and SD becoming even more magical, with people all across the plane starting to see magic as a part of their daily lives, this mindset will stop being prevalent...
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    The more imediate solution is to get more population... which you are doing.
     
    Duesal said:
    @Goldfish @Artemis1992

    Can you guys give me a rough estimate of the CR of Daemons we're going to be up against with most of the party coming to the fight? I'll tailor the questions accordingly.
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    Goldfish said:
    No clue, to be honest. The Daemons shouldn't be very high CR creatures, IMO, or they would have already taken over Tyrosh and destroyed it in an orgy of blood and death.

    They wouldn't be hiding among a cult.
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    They might pull off some sacrifices and desperation-summonings to get us appropriate foes.

    I can't guess the resulting CR, but there are daemons of CR15 or 16 who would individually be a challenge. Or just more weaker ones. Really no way to guess.
    What we can prepare for is that they'll be immune to death-effects and with our other expected foes being undead we shouldn't bother preparing any of that.
    Also most Daemons have some supernatural sense, See Invis, Detect Magic/Good, or True Seeing in the higher ones, so we need not bother with Illusions against them.
     
    Duesal said:
    4. Is there any massive ritual going on this month in Tyrosh intended to be used against us if we invade?
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    Drop the latter part. Massive ritual is important, not that it's intended against us.
    Also add "by anyone but us", since we will grow Heart Tree by ritual.

    If we go two communes, add to question for every catacomb access and cult base we know about if they will start a slaughter around there. We might be able to strike off some locations as secondary.

    Ask for catacomb accesses in the slums (north, east, south).
    Ask if the cults have a way to take out the Second Sons (poison, sneak attack, infiltrators).
    Ask if there is more tainted wine or grain around, that could trigger a cannibal orgy.
    Ask if there are magical defenders or infiltrators in the Archons palace.
    Ask if the fleet will make a break for it when our ships barricade the harbor immediately and only the landing ships will go closer.


    Need to eat something now. Maybe brain will work better after that.
     
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