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

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Looking back at the early days of the quest, it's absurd how many dormant magic items were in reach just by browsing the local market and how cheap they were.

So much useful loot. :cry: I miss the days when competing mages weren't snatching up those items.
 
...you realize we can step to the left and end up in a magical bazaar literally the size of a city? Which in itself is inside of a city the size of a kingdom?

We can pick up random magical gizmos in a thirty minute shopping trip still, vastly more easily than most people buying up crap in Planetosi markets.
 
Crake said:
...you realize we can step to the left and end up in a magical bazaar literally the size of a city? Which in itself is inside of a city the size of a kingdom?

We can pick up random magical gizmos in a thirty minute shopping trip still, vastly more easily than most people buying up crap in Planetosi markets.
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Yes, but the merchants of the magical bazaars happen to know what they're selling, whereas the Prime Material merchants had no idea and thus severely underpriced it. And more to the point, all of the magical items the Prime Material merchants were selling were valid sacrifice items.

Sacrifice aside, freaking artifacts were on the market. I don't know how much Yss' belt costed exactly, but I remember it being less than 100 IM.

Can you imagine trying to pull the same thing off somewhere else?

"Yes, I'd like to buy your dying god, please. 50 IM is my opening offer."
 
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Haha, I mean, I sort of get what you mean, but mostly I just feel bad for the merchants trying to bargain with Viserys.

I always get the impression Viserys doesn't have to worry about being cheated by merchants. He either walks away with a fair price, or commits highway robbery on them.
 
I cannot believe that everyone, even Lya, forgot about the fair Maiden we rescued from Mantarys, where is the love for Azema!?

TotallyNotEvil said:
So when people get pissy, some downright aghast, over Trump giving his back to the Queen, it just shows how well it has worked.
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You need to Understand, that Trump's base includes russian-backed nazies, that share a lot of values with islamic extremists and with a love for the confederate flag.
Surely you notice something missing?
Thats right, no love for the British crown, their only ancient enemy they have not adapted as their own, its discrimination i tell you!
 
@Crake Fleasticker is already his gimmick. It raises its own enhancement bonus until the target dies, every time you hit it.

Because of PF rules, it soon starts to overcome DR as you hit with it.

And I just love that Bronn got it, because he's the kind of guy that will spit and curse when told "keep hitting and it will start working", but the ability to have it work will be enough for him.

Bronn doesn't need a win. He just needs a chance.

We should make a hilt that casts Shrink Item of itself and the sword, because it's the only magical weapon that can be shrunk we know off.
Crake said:
Please... don't you know late-game all swords get replaced with custom Runefangs?

Speaking of which, there's a setting Viserys, even Mythic or Epic Viserys, being transplanted to, would barely be a minor blip on the radar...
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For one, Viserys won't risk exploding every time he casts.

Two, way more endurance.

Three, Teleport and Ressurect and Magic Army.

But Warhammer is precisely the kind of "send Big Bads to fight other Big Bads, what hurts one of those will annihilate a mortal army" thing I was talking about.
Duesal said:
Azel and Goldfish thought up a way to make a public broadcasting system (with plenty of propaganda) using the Mirrors as TVs and items of ghost sound to supplement it all
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We don't even know how the Mirrors will work, or their price.
Duesal said:
Either Cold Iron or proper Mithral. Silvered has an unnecessary -1 penalty for all attack rolls.

And since his bastard sword is already Mithral, let's go Cold Iron.
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-1 damage.

Keep in mind Cold Iron costs double to enchant, but the combo with his Mithral sword is a nice touch.
Duesal said:
Sacrifice aside, freaking artifacts were on the market. I don't know how much Yss' belt costed exactly, but I remember it being less than 100 IM.
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30 or 60 IM I think.
 
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We don't even know how the Mirrors will work, or their price.
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That'll presumably be worked out by Goldfish and Azel later on, this list is pretty much just to make sure nothing is forgotten when the actual turn plan is written up. For what it's worth, DP's already approved the combo of Mirrors and Ghost Sound, and told us that the Mirrors would basically be silent tv. We'll have to work out the kinks, though.
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-1 damage.

Keep in mind Cold Iron costs double to enchant, but the combo with his Mithral sword is a nice touch.
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Cold Iron it is, then.
TotallyNotEvil said:
30 or 60 IM I think.
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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

One of our best investments ever.
 
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Part MMCLX: Reaching for the Dawn
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    • Reaching for the Dawn ​

    Twenty-Fourth Day of the Third Month 293 AC

    On arriving in Lys you find Hermetia nursing a headache and a cup of strong Myrish tea over the collective idiocy of Tyroshi business agents in the city. This quickly drives Lya and Naria into the depths of the consecrated Flesh Forge to deal with straightforward sorcery over the foibles of your most recent subjects. Alas you cannot join them...

    "... so then the cretin accuses me of wanting to know his schedule so I could rob his pissant little company that barely clears three thousand Honors a year. They don't even import good brandy for gods' sake." Though she recounts her woes with the bitterness of someone obligated to help people she would much rather toss into the Narrow Sea on a stormy night, it's clear she has been doing good work at least getting all the major Tyroshi business in town to talk to the Lyseni guard.

    Still, something is odd about her account, the near uniformity of hostility to your chosen representative in Lys contrasts oddly to what you have seen of the Tyroshi so far. True, some of them would retreat into icy bitterness, but a significant number of magisters have proven only too willing to shower you with flattery and throw their fellows under the proverbial elephant in the hopes of greater power and influence under your rule. "Do you think the Lannister agents could have been spreading tales to them as well?" you muse.

    Hermetia considers the notion a long moment before slowly nodding. "Spreading rumors beforehand hinting that you are planning something against Tyroshi merchant interests even before the attack. It would make you seem complicit and greedy as opposed to merely weak and would have caused more unrest in Tyrosh. It makes sense, for all it is more ambitious than anything I would have tried in their place." She smiles over another sip of tea. "Then again, I would have most likely quietly arranged an 'accident' for this Lord Tywin and raised a parley banner already."

    "Sadly the Lannisters seem far too akin to whipped curs whatever their banner might show..." How would you react to penitent Lannisters, you wonder for the first time. They are a fruitful kindred, all the more likely that some branch of the House will see defeat staring them in the face and choose to bend the knee. Can I afford to be magnanimous even there? You cut off the question, for you are a long time from needing it answered yet, and ask instead about the Fungus Forge.

    That at least has not seen any unexpected snarls. Nine-and-ten large and hardy spirit-kin had emerged from the tunnels, most of them leaf-mantled, though a few showed kinship to the fungus that now churns in the depths of the complex. However, by far the most powerful servants of the Old Gods are those gifted with the power to work miracles both like and unlike the sorcerer-priests that have been arising among most of mortalkind. Their arts are the same as those Bloodraven has been teaching to Reva and Liset, though of course they are far more skillful in their use than the girls.

    15x Advanced, Giant, Leaf Leshy
    4x Advanced, Giant, Fungal Leshy
    3x Advanced, Druid Creature, Lotus Leshy
    2x Druid Creature, Treant

    Three of these twice-blessed spirits are born of blooming lotuses, but the mightiest are tall straight-limbed cypress trees imbued with the power of motion and thought by some mingling of Valyrian sorcery and the will of those who dream the Green Dream. Mighty are they even with no sorcery to call their own, strong enough to crush granite in their fist and wrestle a giant to earth, but magic they have, and with it they would be the terror of any battlefield, not that they have any desire to see one.

    "We would sooner guard or teach than fight, Child of Flame," one of the pair explains, the Lyseni accent sitting very oddly indeed with slow musical cadences that recall the True Tongue of the Children. "But we know what is coming from the Seas, from Beyond, from the North. Where you bid us there we shall go."

    Where to you assign the Druid Creatures?

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    Steel forged of otherworldly fire and bones strung with bloody sinews are grasped and broken by the pale roots of a new-grown Heart Tree, its power the simplest and yet most potent you have ever consecrated. The earth grows bountiful under the joyous gazes of the tenders, grasses and sweet-scented windflowers bloom in a riot of color among trees whose seed is not of this earth, their branches heavy with otherworldly golden fruit.

    Two Fire Giant Greatswords
    Two Fire Giant Plate Armors
    One Daemon Bow

    Gained Tree of Dawn (Reliable source of Dawnfruit)
    Tree of Dawn
    "A kind, laughing face of an indiscriminate gender, adorned with a crown of leaves and wild berries."
    CL 20 Hallow Effect
    Secondary Effect 1:     Plant Growth
    Secondary Effect 2: Plant Growth
    Secondary Effect 3: Plant Growth
    Triple effects for nine times the range, area of effect is a radius of 360 ft.

    "Can we come here to visit sometime?" Liset asks softly. "We won't touch the golden trees, promise..."

    "Far be it for me to deny those sworn to the Old Gods entrance into one of Their Holy places," you answer, smiling down at the girl. She and her sister had come a long way from the frightened waifs clinging to each other when they had first come to these shores.

    The girls whoop, and your mother sighs as they run off. "You will note they did not promise not to climb the weirwood."

    "They do that?" you ask, amused.

    She nods still looking after them, smiling: "It's an odd experience dealing with children who can truthfully claim to be communing with the Gods when they run off to climb trees. I suppose it may be poor septa Egraine's curses catching up with me."

    "Oh?" you ask, glad to hear your mother speak more of happier memories.

    "One summer when I was nine I insisted that I would rather worship the Old Gods than the New," she explains to your surprise. "It was unbearably hot, you see, especially in the chamber I usually took my lessons, whereas the Goodswood was the coolest place in the whole keep." She pauses in thought. "Perhaps I would not have had the temerity to do that knowing what I do now... then again, maybe I would." She lowers her voice as though confessing some secret. "I was not the most sensible of children."

    For a time you walk side by side, chatting of your days and plans, until your mother notices you are heading to the Temple of Yss. She is silent for a moment before asking what you mean to do there.

    Surprised but pleased in equal measure, you answer truthfully that you mean to offer the vessel of the Serpent God a dark artifact to devour, that it may rid the world of it and offer a boon for it.

    "I..." she visibly steels herself before asking the last thing you would have expected of her. "May I come with you?"

    "Of course," you answer, biting back the urge to ask her if she is sure. If she had not been sure she would not have asked, and as much as you she carries a dragon's blood. She does not need you to wrap her in silk for fear she might break.

    What question and what boon do you ask of Yss?

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    OOC: A slightly awkward place to put the vote, but I want Rhaella's reaction to Yss to be in its own update since it's an important character moment.
     
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    • [] Is there any remaining way Tor can act in this world? (If yes, what? And if no, let the gaurds you set to watch his grave that they can relax on that matter).
    -[] Empower the blessing on the belt Vee is using to give extra wis (if she wants) (get Vee first?

    Edit: oh yeah, plant people distribution.
     
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    One to gaurd and teach at the wall. One teach teach at the scholaroium?

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    "Can we come here to visit sometime?" Liset asks softly. "We won't touch the golden trees, promise..."

    "Far be it from me to deny those sworn to the Old Gods enterance into one of Their Holy places,"
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    We should make a public park shouldnt we... Or a "temple to the old God's."

    Somewhere someone can go to be close to nature basically.
     
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