- Location
- Germany
Yes. Send her with Moonsongs group. Assault on a cult base and then entering the catacombs. Close quarters with undead, cultists and daemons.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
So, does everyone remember that super-useful Heart-Tree Azel designed?
One that will allow us to effectively become the leading magic-researching institution on Planetos (by making an effective R&D team to be placed under crafting/research arcanum), make Sorcerer's deep a true haven for all and any researchers, greatly help with socialising Old Gods and will be generally all-around awesome?
Well, DP just ruled in a private conversation, that Viserys awakening people to magic beneath that tree, with them taking, say, +5 to ther rolls, will allow us to get even more effective in that procedure
...It's going to be even better for our Capital than Petrified Tree, isn't it?
I'm completely okay with that
And they'll be doing self-study stuff beneath it I'm sure.
They're ambitious, we have a wast library, and Old Gods are great help with understanding all that lore we accumulated.
These guys will jump at a chance to get a shortcut to knowledge.
One that will allow us to effectively become the leading magic-researching institution on Planetos (by making an effective R&D team to be placed under crafting/research arcanum), make Sorcerer's deep a true haven for all and any researchers, greatly help with socialising Old Gods and will be generally all-around awesome?
Philosophers Tree
Face: "Deep lines mar the face of a wizened man, the pale wood looking all too fitting for his flowing beard. Yet the eyes almost seem to shine with the power of the mind behind them and the wisdom brought by such venerable age."
Location: "A tremendous hedge divides this place from the buzzing of the city and forms a wall to protect the place of quiet contemplation within. Many small alcoves can be found in the twisting passages, shielded from the sun by a roof of leaves, and invite the visitor to stay and rest or talk of matters of small or great import with his companions. At the very center of this maze stands a tall Weirwood tree on a small outcropping of rock with small pools of clear water gathering in between stone and roots. Around this tree stand a circle of moss covered, rough hewn stone tribunes, allowing many to gather beneath its branches to find wisdom and share it with others."
Effects:
CL 20 Hallow Effect
Secondary Effect 1: Wisdom of the Ages - By imbibing the water gathering at the tree, a person can try to gleam some knowledge of ages past from the Old Gods and commune with the greatest minds among them. The person must meditate beneath its branches for an hour to gain a bonus to all Knowledge checks and to all Craft of Profession checks used to teach, learn, invent or refine theories and ways of working. This also allows the subject to make these skill-checks untrained. The height bonus can be freely chosen, up to a maximum of +20, but the person must pass a Will-Save with a DC equal to the desired bonus. If the subject fails this check, he does not gain the bonus and becomes Nauseated for an hour, as the insights gleamed from the Old Gods overwhelm him. Every hour after receiving this bonus, the person must pass another Will-Save of the same DC or the effect ends and leaves him Fatigued. The effect also ends if the person leaves the maze, but he must not remain in the inner sanctum.
Secondary Effect 2: Tongues - All persons within the inner sanctum can talk with each other as if speaking the same language and perfectly understanding each other.
Secondary Effect 3: Discern Lies - Any person who tries to speak an intentional lie in the inner sanctum must pass a DC 25 Will-Save or all other persons in attendance know immediately that they were lied to.
I combined Anamensis and Tears to Wine into a single effect, while giving it more flavor and some clear requirements / restrictions. Has the added benefit of making a few nice pools for the Lotus Leshy, who will probably love this place.
The Tongues is mostly for the benefit of foreign scholars, who I think will gladly come for this tree and Discern Lies is to make sure that nobody tries to run a con by claiming great insights that he doesn't have.
They are also not that grand effects, to balance out the combined first effect being able to pack quite a punch for those daring the higher bonuses.
I also hope that this tree has a good effect on the Old Gods themselves, since it gives them some interactions with mortals that don't involve blood sacrifice and let them glimpse into the hearts of minds of the people coming to the tree.
The main goal of this tree is science and establishing SD as a center of learning.
Incidentally, it would be a great place for Viserys, Lya and the Bulabar to discuss piping and steam.
Face: "Deep lines mar the face of a wizened man, the pale wood looking all too fitting for his flowing beard. Yet the eyes almost seem to shine with the power of the mind behind them and the wisdom brought by such venerable age."
Location: "A tremendous hedge divides this place from the buzzing of the city and forms a wall to protect the place of quiet contemplation within. Many small alcoves can be found in the twisting passages, shielded from the sun by a roof of leaves, and invite the visitor to stay and rest or talk of matters of small or great import with his companions. At the very center of this maze stands a tall Weirwood tree on a small outcropping of rock with small pools of clear water gathering in between stone and roots. Around this tree stand a circle of moss covered, rough hewn stone tribunes, allowing many to gather beneath its branches to find wisdom and share it with others."
Effects:
CL 20 Hallow Effect
Secondary Effect 1: Wisdom of the Ages - By imbibing the water gathering at the tree, a person can try to gleam some knowledge of ages past from the Old Gods and commune with the greatest minds among them. The person must meditate beneath its branches for an hour to gain a bonus to all Knowledge checks and to all Craft of Profession checks used to teach, learn, invent or refine theories and ways of working. This also allows the subject to make these skill-checks untrained. The height bonus can be freely chosen, up to a maximum of +20, but the person must pass a Will-Save with a DC equal to the desired bonus. If the subject fails this check, he does not gain the bonus and becomes Nauseated for an hour, as the insights gleamed from the Old Gods overwhelm him. Every hour after receiving this bonus, the person must pass another Will-Save of the same DC or the effect ends and leaves him Fatigued. The effect also ends if the person leaves the maze, but he must not remain in the inner sanctum.
Secondary Effect 2: Tongues - All persons within the inner sanctum can talk with each other as if speaking the same language and perfectly understanding each other.
Secondary Effect 3: Discern Lies - Any person who tries to speak an intentional lie in the inner sanctum must pass a DC 25 Will-Save or all other persons in attendance know immediately that they were lied to.
I combined Anamensis and Tears to Wine into a single effect, while giving it more flavor and some clear requirements / restrictions. Has the added benefit of making a few nice pools for the Lotus Leshy, who will probably love this place.
The Tongues is mostly for the benefit of foreign scholars, who I think will gladly come for this tree and Discern Lies is to make sure that nobody tries to run a con by claiming great insights that he doesn't have.
They are also not that grand effects, to balance out the combined first effect being able to pack quite a punch for those daring the higher bonuses.
I also hope that this tree has a good effect on the Old Gods themselves, since it gives them some interactions with mortals that don't involve blood sacrifice and let them glimpse into the hearts of minds of the people coming to the tree.
The main goal of this tree is science and establishing SD as a center of learning.
Incidentally, it would be a great place for Viserys, Lya and the Bulabar to discuss piping and steam.
Well, DP just ruled in a private conversation, that Viserys awakening people to magic beneath that tree, with them taking, say, +5 to ther rolls, will allow us to get even more effective in that procedure
The hardest part for us, actually making people mages will get (somewhat) easier with it.
...It's going to be even better for our Capital than Petrified Tree, isn't it?
I'm completely okay with that
And they'll be doing self-study stuff beneath it I'm sure.
They're ambitious, we have a wast library, and Old Gods are great help with understanding all that lore we accumulated.
These guys will jump at a chance to get a shortcut to knowledge.
- Location
- United States
It's a good tree, sure, but the petrified weirwood with it's island-wide effects is still better. Nothing will beat that, not even the Nightfort Trees. This is the oldest tree we know of aside from the ones on the God's Eye and Bloodraven's Tree. The power just doesn't compare. More than that, this tree helps the mages, which is nice. The Petrified Weirwood helps everyone in the capital....It's going to be even better for our Capital than Petrified Tree, isn't it?
I'm completely okay with that
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
Eh.
I was mostly over-exaggerating here, due to great amount of hype I have for it.
But whatever, point conceded.
- Location
- Germany
You know, I look around and for once can't find anything to do for the Tyrosh preparation. It's done. All the wheels are greased and beginning to spin into motion.
The Legion is ready. They bear the finest weapons and armor a soldier could wush for. They are well trained and their moral and loyalty are without peer. We have entire crates of potions for them. Every group will get a casting of Magic Army for further enhancement. The strike teams are assembled and their moves planned. Our allies are in place. The final burst of equipment is ready. Our constructs are ready.
Every piece is where it should be and the only thing left to do is to open the curtain. Months of planning and preparation will come to fruition tomorrow.
No matter how this goes, it was an honor to prepare this with all of you and my most sincere thanks to all whose hard work and planning made this possible.
Let's show them all.
The Legion is ready. They bear the finest weapons and armor a soldier could wush for. They are well trained and their moral and loyalty are without peer. We have entire crates of potions for them. Every group will get a casting of Magic Army for further enhancement. The strike teams are assembled and their moves planned. Our allies are in place. The final burst of equipment is ready. Our constructs are ready.
Every piece is where it should be and the only thing left to do is to open the curtain. Months of planning and preparation will come to fruition tomorrow.
No matter how this goes, it was an honor to prepare this with all of you and my most sincere thanks to all whose hard work and planning made this possible.
Let's show them all.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
NOTE: Spells which have been struck through are those which will be cast before fighting starts, mostly personal and team buffs. In some cases, there will be two copies of the spell listed, one crossed out and one not. This represents only one of multiple prepared spells being cast.
Here is a link to the group buff plan for the invasion.
Buffs are sorted by duration; hours, 10 minutes, and minute per level buffs should all be able to be shared among the groups right before the invasion begins in earnest and they Teleport to their assigned areas. Buffs with a duration of one round per level, however, are going to be limited to whichever group the caster is assigned to.
This also assumes that everyone involved in Groups 1 through 5, plus the Air Group, from the Tyrosh Invasion plan, will be included in Dany's Persistomancy routine in the days leading up to the invasion.
Dany:
Lya:
Malarys:
Rina:
Thoughts and suggestions?
Here is a link to the group buff plan for the invasion.
Buffs are sorted by duration; hours, 10 minutes, and minute per level buffs should all be able to be shared among the groups right before the invasion begins in earnest and they Teleport to their assigned areas. Buffs with a duration of one round per level, however, are going to be limited to whichever group the caster is assigned to.
This also assumes that everyone involved in Groups 1 through 5, plus the Air Group, from the Tyrosh Invasion plan, will be included in Dany's Persistomancy routine in the days leading up to the invasion.
In addition to giving her access to 7th level spells, Dany's level up also gave her an additional 2nd and 4th level spell slot. Since she's going to be using her Half-Celestial template, the +4 Wisdom bonus will also give her another 2nd, 3rd, and 7th level spell slot. Those are included below and represented by a HCT in her spells per day notation.
Dany is going into the fight loaded for Outsiders, but she's ready for blasting as well. Sacrifices would be great, but there will be plenty of cultists available for that. Any Daemon or other Outsider we can Dismiss or Banish is one less enemy to deal with, and to waste precious spell slots on. She's got a Mass Align Weapon spell ready to give her Group and any nearby friendlies all Good-aligned weapons, since various Daemon breeds can come with DR/Good. There is also a Repel Vermin spell for anti-Daemon combat, since we know there are going to be numerous Leukodaemons to fight. They have an extremely nasty breath weapon that I would rather avoid if at all possible.
Dany is going into the fight loaded for Outsiders, but she's ready for blasting as well. Sacrifices would be great, but there will be plenty of cultists available for that. Any Daemon or other Outsider we can Dismiss or Banish is one less enemy to deal with, and to waste precious spell slots on. She's got a Mass Align Weapon spell ready to give her Group and any nearby friendlies all Good-aligned weapons, since various Daemon breeds can come with DR/Good. There is also a Repel Vermin spell for anti-Daemon combat, since we know there are going to be numerous Leukodaemons to fight. They have an extremely nasty breath weapon that I would rather avoid if at all possible.
I really wish we had thought to have Lya learn Dismissal or Banishment, but it's too late for that now. She'll be playing Jack-of-all-Trades for her Group, healing, buffing, and debuffing, with some blasting on the side.
Like Dany, Malarys is specced to be his Group's answer to Outsiders. He's also preparing a Mass Align Weapon and Repel Vermin spell for the same reasons as Dany. I've got him specced heavily toward extreme single target ranged damage, with lots of Boneshatters prepared to use in conjunction with Spell Perfection and Quicken Spell plus Boneshaker or Barbed Chains.
I'm not sure what role we are going to ask Rina to fill. For now I've tried to go with a Jack-of-all-Trades approach, between damage, buffing, and Outsider removal. I've also got her set up for large area denial. A combination of Sonorous Hum and Wall of Blindness/Deafness will allow her to effectively interdict a huge amount of real estate with a minimum of Legion or party support, and with Boreal Wind she can destroy a small army of muggles or put out fires.
Thoughts and suggestions?
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Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
- Pronouns
- She/Her
With Rina creating her own PfE, I think we should give the PfE Amulet to Sharra Rogare. Everyone else isn't fighting, but even if she doesn't come to Tyrosh, she's still active in "enemy territory," so to speak, in Lys.
Anyway, the only edits I made was to suggest the PfE that was going to Rina go to Sharra instead, and changed the Boneward belt she was going to get to go to our familiar, Varys instead.
Here's the final list with Rina's work included.
| Lya the Sage | ||||||||
| Item | Recipient | Amount | Base Price | Total Price | Intelligent Construct? | After Discount | Time | Notes |
| Wyrmlings | Strategic | 3 | 500 | 1500 | YES | 975 | 4,875 | Lighting, Cold, Acid |
| Reinforced Seg. Mithral Fullplate +1 | Bronn | 1 | 100 | 100 | NO | 75 | 0,375 | |
| Reinforced Seg. Mithral Breastplate +1 | Valaena | 1 | 100 | 100 | NO | 75 | 0,375 | |
| Greater Ribbon of Disguise | Strategic | 1 | 800 | 800 | NO | 600 | 3 | |
| Healing Belt | Varys | 1 | 75 | 75 | NO | 56,25 | 0,28125 | |
| Robe of Mysterious Conjuration | Viserys | 1 | 1500 | 1500 | NO | 1125 | 5,625 | |
| Bag of Holding III | Viserys | 1 | 740 | 740 | NO | 555 | 2,775 | Finishes Post-Tyrosh |
| Corpse Ferrying Bag | Ser Richard | 2 | 400 | 800 | NO | 600 | 3 | |
| Earrings of Arcane Acuity | Dany, Waymar, Tyene, Lya, Maelor, Malarys | 6 | 340 | 2040 | NO | 1530 | 7,65 | |
| Boots of the Wide Earth | (Tyrosh Invasion), permenant assignment later | 1 | 800 | 800 | NO | 600 | 3 | |
| Protection from Evil on Lesser Star of Sallosh | Viserys, current Amulet to Sharra Rogare | 1 | 600 | 600 | NO | 450 | 2,25 | |
| Lesser Ravens | Strategic | 11 | 25 | 275 | YES | 178,75 | 0,89375 | |
| Greater Ravens | Strategic | 9 | 200 | 1800 | YES | 1170 | 5,85 | |
| Total: | 11130 | 7990 | 39,95 | |||||
| Remaining | -2653,333333 | -1990 | -9,95 | |||||
| Leila Goldenhammer | ||||||||
| Item | Recipient | Amount | Base Price | - | Total Price | Time | Notes | |
| Amulet of Protection from Evil | Teana, Varys (size small) | 2 | 400 | 800 | 4 | |||
| Amulet of Protection from Evil | Soft Strider (from Bloodstone) | 1 | 2 | Bloodstone covers Price | ||||
| Ring of Protection from Evil | Ring to Valaena, Old Amulet to Rhaella | 1 | 400 | 400 | 2 | |||
| Healing Belt | Leila, Azema, Teana, Rina | 4 | 75 | 300 | 1,5 | |||
| Amulet of Protection from Evil | Dalla | 2 | 400 | 800 | 4 | |||
| Cloak of Endure Elements | Dalla | 15 | 100 | 1500 | 7,5 | |||
| Healing Belts | Dalla | 17 | 75 | 1275 | 6,375 | Finishes Post-Tyrosh | ||
| Boneward Belt +1 | Asha, Varys (size small) | 2 | 100 | 200 | 1 | |||
| Tailring of Zephyr's Grace +1 | Varys (size small) | 1 | 100 | 100 | 0,5 | |||
| Total: | 5375 | 28,875 | ||||||
| Remaining | 225 | 1,125 | ||||||
| Rina the Reborn | ||||||||
| Item | Recipient | Amount | Base Price | - | Total Price | Time | Notes | |
| Amulet of Protection from Evil | 1 | 400 | 400 | 2 | ||||
| Headband of the Whisper Within +3 | 1 | 900 | 900 | 4,5 | ||||
| Boneward Belt +1 | 1 | 100 | 100 | 0,5 | ||||
| Gloves of Zephyr's Grace +1 | 1 | 100 | 100 | 0,5 | ||||
| Earrings of Arcane Acuity | 1 | 340 | 340 | 1,7 | ||||
| Ring of Sustanance | 1 | 250 | 250 | 1,25 | Finishes Post-Tyrosh | |||
| Cloak of Endure Elements | 1 | 100 | 100 | 0,5 | Finishes Post-Tyrosh | |||
| Total: | 2190 | 10,95 | ||||||
| Remaining | 0,05 | Started Crafting on the 19th | ||||||
- Location
- United States
I was going off the Excel spreadsheet with Rina's Amulet of PfE. I assumed you'd already discussed that with Goldfish, TNE, and Azel.
Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Ah, sorry. I just updated it with Rina's crafting.
- Location
- United States
Well, then I suppose Sharra indeed gets a new Amulet of PfE.
Speaking of Sharra, can we just take her along for this? Hermetia will be fine for a few days, and Sharra would greatly benefit from the XP.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Plan The Show Begins
-[X] Rhealla is brought up to speed together with Ser Gerold. She can assist him with order and information relaying by using the Brazier.
-[X] Prerecord a speech on the ravens of each group, which will be given right before the battle proper begins, marked by Viserys leaving the Queen Rhealla as a Red Dragon.
--[X] Have a Programmed Image prepared on them in advance, to be triggered as the Ravens begin to recite the speech.
--[X] Speech by Crake, revisions by Azel
-[X] Due to Magic Army now being available, Viserys will, upon returning from the meeting with the Second Sons, cast it on all Legionnaire groups before going for his scheduled nap on the Bedroll to replenish his spells.
-[X] Rina will go with Moonsongs group.
-[X] Should Wylla wish to join the effort, she will either go with them or reinforce the infiltration team of Garin.
-[X] Should Viserys think it's a good idea, ask Sharra to join the effort. She will get two lesser ravens and a bag of attuned sand to be our liaison with the Second Sond and thus be taken along when Richard and Viserys visit them.
-[X] Adjust the spell load-outs of all prepared casters:
--[X] Adjusted load-out by Goldfish
-[X] Give each of the Legionaries with See Invisibility potions a few small packages of gypsum powder, to be thrown at invisible enemies to mark them.
I think that's all.
-[X] Rhealla is brought up to speed together with Ser Gerold. She can assist him with order and information relaying by using the Brazier.
-[X] Prerecord a speech on the ravens of each group, which will be given right before the battle proper begins, marked by Viserys leaving the Queen Rhealla as a Red Dragon.
--[X] Have a Programmed Image prepared on them in advance, to be triggered as the Ravens begin to recite the speech.
--[X] Speech by Crake, revisions by Azel
-[X] Due to Magic Army now being available, Viserys will, upon returning from the meeting with the Second Sons, cast it on all Legionnaire groups before going for his scheduled nap on the Bedroll to replenish his spells.
-[X] Rina will go with Moonsongs group.
-[X] Should Wylla wish to join the effort, she will either go with them or reinforce the infiltration team of Garin.
-[X] Should Viserys think it's a good idea, ask Sharra to join the effort. She will get two lesser ravens and a bag of attuned sand to be our liaison with the Second Sond and thus be taken along when Richard and Viserys visit them.
-[X] Adjust the spell load-outs of all prepared casters:
--[X] Adjusted load-out by Goldfish
-[X] Give each of the Legionaries with See Invisibility potions a few small packages of gypsum powder, to be thrown at invisible enemies to mark them.
I think that's all.
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Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Hrm, we could use her as our point of contact to the second sons, once we convinced them to play ball. She's a rogue, so openly fighting undead or daemons isn't the best place for her, but helping the second sons secure the nearby gate and fighting defenders of the city, while keeping an eye on the second sons, should play to her strengths
- Location
- Germany
Yes. It should have been part of the original battle plan already.
- Location
- Australia
Haven't caught up yet but don't want us to forget the plans to make the speech "in person" to all of our forces.
- Location
- United States
We now have her siblings in our kingdom as personal guests, and we've essentially hired her to work for us. For all intents and purposes she's already all in.
Hell, we literally just met Rina and she's going to be fighting with us. Why are we not even trying to see if Sharra's willing to help?
- Location
- Germany
Right. Forgot about that.
Adding that illusion and using the ravens only as speakers, to make the whole thing easier to understand for everyone.
Fine. Adding that.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
- Location
- Australia
It has Audio as well, Viserys can give Life Sized, Full Colour speeches in his very own voice to everyone, on every ship and at every muster point at the exact same time.
- Location
- Germany
Done, but using gypsum instead. It will cling better, especially if target is in any way wet. It also works better under rainy conditions.
- Location
- Germany
I know, but the Ravens can also do the speech. Assume that a raven is behind the group, one on each side and the illusion in the front, thus having basically surround sound to go with the image.
- Location
- Argentina
And what would they do about Cacodaemons who are pretending to be lizards? Maybe have Lantern Archons accompany them?
- Location
- Germany
Nothing we can do about that on a large scale. Junk like that is why I wanted to have part of the reserved Tyrosh time after the day of the actual invasion, since we will need to comb the area for stragglers.