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

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Huh.
@Goldfish has a point.
With his second-in-command throwing in with daemons, chances are, this woman is an assassin to fuck this guy up when the moment is right.
 
Call me paranoid, but is no one else getting suspicious about the oh so casually mentioned sleeping companion?

Do Daemons have Succubus', or was that the devils?

True sight should take care of that question at least...

Edit: Additional insurance beyond the second in command... Daemons can plan (roughly) when it suits them
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They almost certainly have similar infiltrators. And ultimately that is partially a service both the Demon and Devil seducers do for their patrons, one is just done haphazardly and the other with byzantine methods.
 
bigbow said:
Do Daemons have Succubus', or was that the devils?
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Daemon, Erodaemon – d20PFSRD
These could do the Succubus-like job.
Daemon, Vulnadaemon – d20PFSRD
These are fluffed to infiltrate, but I can't find any abilities that would allow them to change shape or look human. Maybe a mistake in the printing?

The daemons have, all in all, far less skill in subtelty and corruption than the creatures of the Abyss or the minions of Baator.
After all they have actually very little interest in corrupting people and care just about killing them.
 
Artemis1992 said:
Daemon, Erodaemon – d20PFSRD
These could do the Succubus-like job.
Daemon, Vulnadaemon – d20PFSRD
These are fluffed to infiltrate, but I can't find any abilities that would allow them to change shape or look human. Maybe a mistake in the printing?

The daemons have, all in all, far less skill in subtelty and corruption than the creatures of the Abyss or the minions of Baator.
After all they have actually very little interest in corrupting people and care just about killing them.
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Maybe just standard possession?
 
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Interlude CCXXXVI: The Broken Bastion
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    • The Broken Bastion ​

    Twenty-Seventh Day of the Second Month 293 AC

    The eight-sided profile of the Bleeding Tower was carried upon coins of Tyroshi gold from Yi Ti to Lannisport, but most of the men unfortunate enough to man its ramparts that night had to make due with coppers, when they were lucky enough to get them. Little wonder then that even their commander barely glanced out to sea as he warmed his hands against a brazier. True, the one he was using was emblazoned with coiling dragons set with eyes of jade, a gift from a merchant captain who did not wish to be bothered with an over-long customs inspection, but he hated the posting no less than any of the men under his command.

    Trynaeus Gula was a man given to simple pleasures and far less martially inclined than his resplendent purple-fringed cloak might show. He had been banished to this post after causing one too many minor and not so many minor scandals, the last of which involved almost wedding a slave, much to his elder bother's horror. The girl had been put to death, the wheel he suspected though he never had the courage to ask, while he had been quietly exiled to this blood-stained rock at the edge of the city.

    Slowly the man lifted the fifth wine cup of the night and drank deep from it, the dismal scene of his exile vanishing behind it even as memories faded and blurred from the brandy within. As he set down his cup, however, he saw or thought he did a young woman who seemed painfully familiar to his eye.

    "Ane..." The more he looked the less she seemed like his lost lover. Her flesh pale as moonlight, hair black as ebony and eyes... he fell endlessly into a sea of darkness from which he could not escape, nor did he wish to for it promised forgetfulness deeper by far then drink could give.

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    "Why are we carrying people in bottles again?" Wyla asked sweetly as she looked over her new thrall. "I can just make the ones already here loyal onto death if need be."

    "Because the tales of having enthralled everyone within would reflect poorly upon us," Garin Drekelis found himself answering quickly before the crow-headed archon could answer more sharply. "One man's testimony is easily brushed aside, but not that of more than a hundred watchmen."

    "Especially a sot," Maelor notes, kicking the cup into the wall with a look of what seemed to Garin to be almost personal dislike. "Let's get this mummery over with..."

    The taking of the tower, bastion of Tyroshi power since its raising during the Century of Blood was a swift and frightful thing. To the beleaguered defenders it must have seemed as though the shadows themselves had come alive to harry them as bolts rained down from the dark heavens upon any foolish enough to make for the causeway linking the city itself.

    Garin took no pleasure in hounding them, for they did naught but their duty, however wicked their masters. Still, the blood of a man bold or foolish enough to run for the signal fire stained the Braavosi's blades, offering one final sacrifice to the ancient stones perhaps. As the men struggled in vain against foes they could not even hope to touch, a commanding voice, familiar to all, rang out from the upper ramparts: "Lay down your arms! For the love of the gods we surrender, lower your arms!"

    Even as the clang of steel on stone heralded victory, Garin could not help but wonder if it would cost one life more in the person of the hapless commander.

    OOC: Wyla was not exaggerating here. She could well have taken this place on her own.
     
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    • DragonParadox said:
    OOC: Wyla was not exaggerating here. She could well have taken this place on her own.
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    Most of ours could have. Maelor for sure.
    But no single one could have guaranteed that there's no alarm.

    DragonParadox said:
    "Especially a sot," Maelor notes kicking the cup into the wall with a look of what seemed to Garin to be almost personal dislike. "Let's get this mummery over with..."
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    Maelor dislikes drinkers?
    I think that never came up before.
     
    A good update, but the surrender really could have done with some exclamation points, or something to denote exhaustion.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    Trynaeus Gula was a man given to simple pleasures and far less martially inclined than his resplendent purple-fringed cloak might show. He had been banished to this post after causing one too many minor and not so many minor scandals, the last of which involved almost wedding a slave, much to his elder bother's horror. The girl had been put to death, the wheel he suspected though he never had the courage to ask, while he had been quietly exiled to this blood-stained rock at the edge of the city.
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    I want this mans family executed, I would prefer doing so by hanging them from the Heart trees, for once without painkillers, but I will settle for a normal hanging, I don't want them to get the quick death that's getting their heads cut of though, I want them to get a botched hanging where they choke to death.

    I quite literally hate mortal mens who do things like this more than I hate most fiends, so even if they get with the party line I want them dead.
     
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    Alternatively I would like to have all Slavers, who have had their slaves killed for anything less than treachery, executed in the worst manner they have ever had an innocent slave executed.

    That would be a fair rule, and it would be a good way to sort people like Hermetia, who are good people brought up with bad beliefs, from the ones who are horrible bastards in need of a good killing.
     
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    tarrangar said:
    Alternatively I would like to have all Slavers, who have had their slaves killed for anything less than treachery, executed in the worst manner they have ever had an innocent slave executed.
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    We're not turning Viserys into a sadist. If we're killing slavers, we're just going to do it quickly and efficiently. No unnecessary torture. They're going to the lower planes anyway, so they'll suffer eternally.
     
    DocMatoi said:
    Iirc his ex-master drank, and he associates the two. Though I may be misremembering
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    I thought he was sold by a ghoul to the listener and then posessed by a shadow demon (father/ancestor) then he was found in the circus boat?

    Not sure why he dislikes drinking...

    Wonder when he was forced to the streets, as in, how old.
     
    tarrangar said:
    Alternatively I would like to have all Slavers, who have had their slaves killed for anything less than treachery, executed in the worst manner they have ever had an innocent slave executed.
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    The Tyroshi would consider trying to seduce a nobleman into marriage treachery, as they do many other things Viserys would count differently. To sort out one from the other you would have to review an enormous number of cases, many of which are barely documented.
     
    DocMatoi said:
    Iirc his ex-master drank, and he associates the two. Though I may be misremembering
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    He had no master aside from the guild-leader-ghoul. Undead don't drink.
    Until he was possessed by that Shadow Daemon, bought by a circus and freed by us.
    And he remembers nothing of the latter part due to the possession. (UNless he's a far better bluffer than we ever thought.)
     
    DragonParadox said:
    The Tyroshi would consider trying to seduce a nobleman into marriage treachery, as they do many other things Viserys would count differently. To sort out one from the other you would have to review an enormous number of cases, many of which are barely documented.
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    Nah I can get around that by simply not considering their definition of treachery.

    And by forcing any who has executed slaves to tell why under a zone of truth, if it wasn't treachery rape murder or the like, they die like the slave died.

    I'm not inclined to show the Tyroshi slavemasters mercy, not unless they made a habit of showing mercy to their slaves.
     
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    BeepSmile said:
    I thought he was sold by a ghoul to the listener and then posessed by a shadow demon (father/ancestor) then he was found in the circus boat?

    Not sure why he dislikes drinking...

    Wonder when he was forced to the streets, as in, how old.
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    Artemis1992 said:
    He had no master aside from the guild-leader-ghoul. Undead don't drink.
    Until he was possessed by that Shadow Daemon, bought by a circus and freed by us.
    And he remembers nothing of the latter part due to the possession. (UNless he's a far better bluffer than we ever thought.)
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    So yeah I was definitely misremembering
     
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    The most through approach, not sure if killing the entire educated elite of the city is really practical.
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    Killing them all isn't a good idea, but anyone who has done shit like the noble we just heard about, well they have to go, else they will just drag the reforms down, the Hermetia types, and the types that just don't care can be used, but those who were actually cruel, need to be purged ruthlessly and utterly, even if it mean we get a smaller initial income.
     
    @DragonParadox Is that a "they're a less legalistic bunch than the Braavosi or Valyrians" and standing on carefully set precedents and instead just justifying whatever faction holds power's view on something?

    Even the Volantenes seem like they have to strike a careful balance of leaning on precedence and legalism when there's such diverse political groupings to consider behind the Black Walls, but Lys, Tyrosh and Myr can probably trend towards consolidating leadership by eliminating or diminishing the influence of rivals.

    If so I'm unsure what metric we're going to judge people who committed things Viserys would count atrocities other than assuming most people would be fit for execution, and only staying his hand because of political realities, like needing to prop up one House to counterbalance another.
     
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