A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Part MCMLXXV: Woe to the Vanquished
Woe to the Vanquished
Twenty-Seventh Day of the Second Month 293 AC
Gazing upon the piteous scene you find yourself weighing practicality against compassion and even the tales that might be told of this day, distasteful as that might be to consider at such a time as this. Of all sorcery healing is the one most readily accepted, yet your power is not truly meant for such a thing, and to spread tales to the contrary may do more harm than good. "Use the elixirs," you command. "Remember to let them drink it all. Interrupting will only make them lose their virtues entirely."
As several of the legionaries still fortunate enough to posses potions rush to aid the servants most in need of it you notice a few of them staring at the ground as though admonished, the ones who had tried to stretch out the potions, as one would any other ration. Though you do not blame them you suspect their officers would have quite a lot to say on the matter once the battle was out and none of it pleasant to hear.
All but three of those lain upon the floor, save the three for which nothing more could be done, rise shakily to their feet. They heap praise upon the men and woman who healed them and upon you in equal measure, though there is fear yet in their eyes at your inhuman form.
Holding back a sigh, you instruct all those present, "Find some out-of-the-way room and barricade yourselves inside. The streets outside shan't be much safer than the corridors I fear."
That gets you quite a few nods, no doubt thinking that you mean the threat of a invading army set to looting and rapine. You do not see fit to frighten them further by explaining that fiends and worse are loose in Tyrosh this night.
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After burning your way through several makeshift barricades, slaying or routing a few more contingents of Unsullied, you finally find yourself in the wing of the palace your guide tells you houses the chambers of most highborn courtiers, including the Archon's family. No sooner had you taken your first steps down the long vaulted corridor that you hear the terrified scream of a child echoing from up ahead.
Thoughts of another sack, another massacre fill your mind. "Be wary of traps," you call to the red-cloaked captain. Without another word you proceed to utterly ignore your own advice, laying a blessing of swiftness upon both yourself and Ser Richard. The two of you race ahead through the empty hall, likely to the shock of the legionaries following behind at a more reasonable pace.
You catch sight of a boy who can count perhaps eight namedays, his sliver hair and fine though torn clothes marking him as someone of high station, running from a pair of guardsmen, short spears already glistening with blood.
The boy stops, wide-eyed at the sight of you and trying to say something about surrender between sobs. You also catch the name Taelreon, the House of the current Archon of Tyrosh. Meanwhile the murderous sons of bitches who are chasing him smirk, as though expecting a reward, like hounds that had driven a rabbit at bay before their new master. It takes scarce a moment to realize the treachery that must have gone on here, one that is ultimately in your favor, though it turns your stomach to think in those terms.
What do you do?
[] Kill the traitors try to save any of the boy's family that might yet be alive
[] Demand that the guards explain themselves
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OOC: Normally there would be an option to thank the traitors or even let them kill the boy, but this hits too close to home for Viserys after resurrecting Elia and Rhaenys a few weeks ago.
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- United States
Sparing the kid and protecting him (especially after he learns exactly what was in the city) gets us a new and ready-to-be-brainwashed fanatic. This is a baby PC we're looking at.
- Location
- Germany
Too late for treason.
If they had given us the palace from the gate on we might have considered a nicer fate, but this is just rats leaving a sinking ship.
Edit: The ship is also on fire.
If they had given us the palace from the gate on we might have considered a nicer fate, but this is just rats leaving a sinking ship.
Edit: The ship is also on fire.
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- France
Ah, but killing them outright just tells people to fight us to the death. Is that really what we want?
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- United States
Just Deep Slumber them for now, and execute them later along with everyone else who decided looting and raiding was a good idea.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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- Wordcats
We accept surrenders of those who lay down their arms. We do not accept the surrenders of honourless scum who just butchered an entire family to try and win their way to our good graces. Accepting this as it stands make us no better than Tywin Lannister. I will not have this.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Not necessarily?
But even if so, and I have to admit myself being just a tad bit bloodthirsty... I actually appreciate these guards' work. Let's not kill them.
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- United States
Anyone can be a baby PC if you put your mind to it.
This kid is of a noble lineage, and just went through PC trauma of seeing his family slaughtered. And we can brainwash him. He's a perfect candidate, we don't often get many of those. We shouldn't waste the chance on him.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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- Wordcats
Are you insane? If we let them live, we show that we're willing to accept spontaneous treachery. That runs so contrary to our plans for an empire of order and law that I can't even describe. They die for crimes of looting and murder like all the rest we catch at it.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
The kid is alive, if they only killed slavers otherwise then good riddance to bad rubbish, but if they killed other kids they should be executed, the Archon being killed during the siege is just convenient, and mean we have one less asshole slaver to execute, but if they actually succeeded in killing any kids, then they should be executed themselves.
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- United States
This is excellent propaganda fodder.
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Massgamer
Advance toward the Future
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- The Future
Agreed, from an IC perspective Viserys would hate that kinda things in general so would not make sense to do anything less then lock up said traitors.
It's one thing if the guards held the family hostage and presented them to us, it's quite another that they started murdering them all hoping to gain our favor.
[X] Duesal
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tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Only the children, letting the adults die, mean we get to put one more other asshole on the chopping block, as an example of what we do to asshole slavers.
Algalon
Herald of the Titans
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- Celestial Planetarium
Wouldn't it be better to make it an official hearing? This would allow to make a public statement about how such acts will not be tolerated and prevent any nasty rumors about Viserys or the Legions being the ones to do it by presenting the actual culprits to the public.
We could make it a huge affair, judging all those who got caught looting or worse, maybe even with some captured cultists with visible mutations.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
On that note, we just gained yet another orphaned ward. 
Because what are the chances we weren't too late to prevent another tragedy.
[X] Cast Deep Slumber on the traitors, have them secured for trial later alongside any others who decided to take advantage of the chaos and loot the city, then try to save any of the boy's family that might yet be alive.
Because what are the chances we weren't too late to prevent another tragedy.
[X] Cast Deep Slumber on the traitors, have them secured for trial later alongside any others who decided to take advantage of the chaos and loot the city, then try to save any of the boy's family that might yet be alive.
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Now's really not the time to go "kill all the slavers!"
We have more important things to be doing. We need the upper nobility alive, slavers or no, so that we can either be the ones to execute them in a public display or cow them into submission and use them to get the city running again.
In the meantime there are daemons and cultists to go after.
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- Germany
[X] Duesal
