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

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Tomcost said:
Irony is still around for sacrifice purposes, right?
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Irony was given to Vee, in the hopes that she'd be using Irony for sacrifice purposes.
DragonParadox said:
You can see all manner of small dinosaurs in the jungle though they mostly avoid the cleared areas except the cenotes where they come to drink. Nothing large in sight right now.
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Alright, nothing for now, then. If we see other Parasaurolophuses then we'll grab them to make a new herd with the one we've already got, along with other neat dinos.
DragonParadox said:
Somewhere around 30.
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Holy hell. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Anyway, I guess if we do get lucky enough to fight a Lolth priestess then we do our best to have Lya land the finishing blow? Viserys already has an amazing Runestaff of the Old Gods that we're not going to be setting aside any time soon.

@DragonParadox, I'm assuming the bones were thoroughly poked at and Legend Lore gave a relatively clear picture that at least one person in the current party knows what a Drow is and what they look like? Can we use our Wayfinder to detect any nearby?
 
@DragonParadox - to the best of our knowledge/intuition, does the staff has a connection to the demon goddess that she could use? Like the devil's eye I mean?
 
DragonParadox said:
A World Unveiled ​

Twentieth Day of the Fourth Month 293 AC

You begin speaking as though to a child, offering protection and aid in understanding a world wholly new to her, but are quickly reminded that the fey care little for the passage of days years or centuries. Timeless they are and filled with ancient knowledge even in their earliest days. The spirit before you knows the seas after but an instant's being in ways no mortal could were they to live a score lifetimes, and she knows just as much her own mind.

"Show me these mortals and I will judge form myself," she asks of you, though she proves far less opposed to allowing tinker fey on her decks... in truth she seems rather fascinated by the thought of them, asking question after question about their habits and interests, their kinship and the ordering of their ranks, until you have exhausted your knowledge of the matter.

The Children of the Forest she invites to come aboard at once, for it would not be fitting that those who assisted in her birth not we welcome as friends and allies she says. However, that does not stop Soft Strider from flustering her somewhat with the first question she addressed the spirit: "What may we call you, lady of the wide seas?"

A question you should perhaps have asked already, but you had grown too used to thinking her as 'the Queen Rhaella' it seems, perhaps not the wisest notion. Not only is a dryad not her 'tree' however close the bond, but your mother has previous claim to the name.

"I shall be called..." the silence stretches uncommonly long before she huffs. "You know I have not really done anything worth a title have I? 'Sits-at-Anchor' would be an ungaintly thing to be called. Maybe I should...?"

"Explore Sorcerer's Deep," you cut her off, sensing a bout of fey impulsiveness you can ill afford. "I guarantee that you shall not find a port quite like it in all the wold."

"I can't. I have to stay..." She frowns. "I suppose I don't have to stay with the ship, but I do have to keep it safe. Do I have your word that it will be so?" Reading your surprise at the show of trust on your face she smiles. "If you wished to do me harm you would have done so already. It would seem an unaccountably convoluted plan to see that I am born in such an unusual manner only to then harm me or my home."

"I am honored to receive such trust nonetheless," you reply. "None shall step upon the ship's boards without your knowledge..."

"That is already the case," she interrupts, eyes gleaming with mischief.

"Come on then," Dany calls. "I can show you around, I've done it lots of times..."

"Perhaps I could meet this Lohos Saan," the fey spirit offers.

Dany snorts in poorly hidden mirth. "Maybe later once I've... explained some things to her."

The thought of your sister warning the old rogue against toying with the fey's feelings is possibly the most surreal thing in this day of old magics and new life, but you have little doubt she would do a good job of it. Still you take the time to join them just in case, to get a better feel for your new retainer's nature and her desires. Of that, after all, is good lordship made as much or more than ledgers and judgements.

***​

Twenty First Day of the Fourth Month 293 AC

"Never thought I'd see such a place with my own eyes," Waymar declares as he looks out over the ruined city by the murky light that made it though the dark clouds overhead.

"Never much wanted to myself," Tyene interjects, dramatically waving non-existent insects from in front of her face, though she might be forgiven her caution given the fact that the air everywhere besides around you and your companions is alive with buzzing insects, ranging from black brown and dark green to vivid colors that mark the more dangerous, often poisonous of their ilk.

"The bugs will be the least of our worries..." Ly announces grimly. "The people who raised this city were... near enough fiends in mortal skin, and not precisely shy about trafficking with the actual denizens of the Lower Planes."

"So just like the Valyrians then," Garin jests. Of all of you he seems least bothered by the musty fecundity of the place.

Lya shakes her head "Worse, they dealt with demons not devils, and from what Dany was able to find studying the objects we recovered, they might have even worshiped one."

"A Demon Goddess worshiped by an entire city?" you exclaim, mind flinching away from such an obscenity. "How did they even have any society to begin with?"

"That secret the staff would not reveal, though she did manage to find that the staff is indeed alive and aware in some manner..."

"And wants to kill us all no doubt," Ser Richard finishes, the grumbling more for form's sake than with any heat.

"Oddly enough no." Lya replies. "It will only serve a priestess of this Dark Goddess, or one who has, by strength or guile slain such a one..."

The unwelcome implication settled over all of you as you turned your eyes to the broken paths snaking off under the trees.

What do you explore first?

[] Hidden Cenotes. Found by Vee while searching for groundwater, the city may have once used these deep pools of water likely well up from whatever subterranean maze the spiders fled into

[] Crimson Mounds. The stone here seems stained with blood, the plants sickly and withered and none of the great jungle trees have caught root here. A tower broken about two thirds of the way up its original two-hundred foot height lies here besides a handful of what might be slow dome roofed (Bloodsilk Spiders and Bellybore Beetles found here)

[] The Thrice-Broken Plaza. An immense plaza, its stone slabs filthy with excrement and littered with bones and other bits of waste, sprawls nor far to the east the temple complex where you first arrived where four stone pillars, strangely untouched by time, rise at its corners, each topped with some sort of overgrown fiendish creature

[] The Broken Temple. A cursory examination of the area where the spiders laired showed no further treasures or lore about the city, but perhaps a more thorough excavation through the mounds of rubble will reveal more

[] Descend through the holes the spiders fled

[] Carve your way through the jungle
-[] Write in

OOC: You are unlikely to finish exploring everything here in a day. Viserys can't even tell how much of the city is hidden by the jungle beyond the fact that there is a lot of it.
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Awesome, it's time for an adventure!

Although the schedule initially only budgeted one day for this expedition, @DragonParadox, we have things set up so that everyone in attendance can spend several days. I'm not in a hurry to get it over with, that's for sure.

BTW, if we vote for Tyene's level up, can you allow that to be retroactively applied? It could be really helpful for her to have a bit more power on this expedition.

[X] Duesal
 
Artemis1992 said:
So with her normal 20 Glyra just needs to steal a Divine Insight for a relativly safe casting of whatever the staff does.
We should check that out, if only to know for sure what spells the staff has an if it's worth searching for a more permanent solution.

@Goldfish @Duesal You know any reason not to?
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Potential possession from an artifact-tier staff comes to mind. I'd like to take precautions before we poke at it, but you do have me tempted.
 
Duesal said:
Potential possession from an artifact-tier staff comes to mind. I'd like to take precautions before we poke at it, but you do have me tempted.
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Possessing the mind of best Glyra? What would the Staff's will safe be - I mean, if he were successful?
Edit: "So, you forced your way in. Welcome to my mind. Can you get out?"
 
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Artemis1992 said:
So with her normal 20 Glyra just needs to steal a Divine Insight for a relativly safe casting of whatever the staff does.
We should check that out, if only to know for sure what spells the staff has an if it's worth searching for a more permanent solution.

@Goldfish @Duesal You know any reason not to?
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I'm game to try it. We can give Glyra other buffs to further guarantee her success; Heroism, Grand Destiny, Moment of Greatness, etc.
Duesal said:
Potential possession from an artifact-tier staff comes to mind. I'd like to take precautions before we poke at it, but you do have me tempted.
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Her PfE item should prevent that, but a bit of caution never hurt anyone. Once we're back in SD, we can have Dany use her Telepath template to put a Mind Blank spell on Glyra before she attempts to use the staff.
 
Goldfish said:
Awesome, it's time for an adventure!

Although the schedule initially only budgeted one day for this expedition, @DragonParadox, we have things set up so that everyone in attendance can spend several days. I'm not in a hurry to get it over with, that's for sure.

BTW, if we vote for Tyene's level up, can you allow that to be retroactively applied? It could be really helpful for her to have a bit more power on this expedition.

[X] Duesal
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Sure.
 
@DragonParadox, a couple questions if it's not too much trouble:

1. With the Dedicated Wrights study action, is that something that Naria can help with or is it something that Lya needs to do on her own?
2. Is there any issue with Naria poking at the properties of Valyrian Steel in the days freed up from the Fairwind study action that she apparently never needed to do?
3. Judging from the silence on the matter, I'm assuming that we got something good from the Lich's library and you're just waiting to present it in an update? You don't have to answer this one, I'm just articulating my thoughts.
4. Has there been any contact from Vee yet? Maybe, "Hey, we killed a dragon for you, and we're also bringing some skulls for the collection." "Hey, we found some nice painted lizards for you." "Hey, some guys we beat up want to become our minions, but we don't want minions so you have to take the minions."
Goldfish said:
I'm game to try it. We can give Glyra other buffs to further guarantee her success; Heroism, Grand Destiny, Moment of Greatness, etc.

Her PfE item should prevent that, but a bit of caution never hurt anyone. Once we're back in SD, we can have Dany use her Telepath template to put a Mind Blank spell on Glyra before she attempts to use the staff.
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Yeah, this can be accomplished pretty handily.
Artemis1992 said:
Say it with me: "There's a spell buff for that.".
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There is a spell for that. :p
 
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Duesal said:
@DragonParadox, a couple questions if it's not too much trouble:

1. With the Dedicated Wrights study action, is that something that Naria can help with or is it something that Lya needs to do on her own?
2. Is there any issue with Naria poking at the properties of Valyrian Steel in the days freed up from the Fairwind study action that she apparently never needed to do?
3. Judging from the silence on the matter, I'm assuming that we got something good from the Lich's library and you're just waiting to present it in an update? You don't have to answer this one, I'm just articulating my thoughts.
4. Has there been any contact from Vee yet? Maybe, "Hey, we killed a dragon for you, and we're also bringing some skulls for the collection." "Hey, we found some nice painted lizards for you." "Hey, some guys we beat up want to become our minions, but we don't want minions so you have to take the minions."


Yeah, this can be accomplished pretty handily.

There is a spell for that. :p
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  1. She can help, but it would not be the most efficient use of her time
  2. None, she can study it
  3. No comment :V
  4. No dead dragons yet
 
"How dare you disturb me? See the majesty of a true dragon."
"... seen better."
"Yup, Relath has more ... distinction."
"And Viserys."
"I didn't mention him, because, really, that's no comparison here."
":confused:"
"What about Amrelath?"
"Hm. Yes, he there got more majesty. But Amrelath's definitely more impressive. In his unique way."
"Weeeelllll - yes, but that comparison is a little unfair, with Amy being a Dracolich and all."
"What about the Ice dragon?"
"Cannot remember."
"That's NOT funny."
"The dream dragon?"
"That was just an impostor."
"But a good one."
"But not majestic."
"... what are you puny mortals talking about?"
"We are comparing you to the dragons we've met so far. Because of your question."
"I've got another - Tiamat's avatar"
"Also not fair. I mean, he over there - that's what? Adult? Mature adult? The avatar was a sliver of the true might of the Dark Queen. No comparison here."
"I have you know that I already sired two clutches of healthy wyrmlings. And countless halfbreeds!"
" ... dragon."
"Right."
 
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DragonParadox said:
  1. She can help, but it would not be the most efficient use of her time
  2. None, she can study it
  3. No comment :V
  4. No dead dragons yet
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Alrighty.

@everyone, looks like Naria's best served elsewhere while Lya does the Dedicated Wrights on her own. Any objections to her poking at Valyrian Steel? This combined with the promising "No comment" from DP regarding the Lich's library tells me we'd make quite a bit of progress.

Slightly sad about the lack of dead dragons, but eh. One way or another Vee's going to be bringing trophies back to us.

Also, @Goldfish, was this the levelups you wanted me to include in the vote?

[] Glyra Level Up
-[] Class: +1 Spellthief
-[] Skill Points (5 points): +1 Hide, +1 Move Silently, +1 Sleight of Hand, +2 Bluff
-[] Feats:
--[] Retrain: Skill Focus (Use Magic Device) >>> Practiced Spellcaster

[] Tyene Level Up
-[] Class: +1 Sand Snake
-[] Skills (8 points): +1 Concentration, +1 Sense Motive, +2 Diplomacy, +4 Bluff
-[] Spells:
--[] 3rd Level:
---[] Retrain: Blindsight >>> Mass Resist Energy
--[] 4th Level: Greater Blindsight
--[] 5th Level: Fickle Winds
--[] 6th Level: Wind Walk

Should we discuss them a bit more? A big part of me is literally twitching to get Dimensional Anchor as a 4th level spell for Tyene, but she already has Chains of Light, so I can't exactly complain there.

EDIT: I'm just going to go ahead and add them. If you end up making changes just tag me so I can update the vote.
 
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[X] Hidden Cenotes. Found by Vee while searching for groundwater, the city may have once used these deep pools of water likely well up from whatever subterranean maze the spiders fled into

This is where the good stuff is, cenotes connect to the underworld.
 
Surprised glyra doesn't have practiced spellcaster yet.

Huh.

@DragonParadox how would spell completion items act in the wild magic field? Same as spells or more or less stable?

@thread. Greater stone shape, wall of stone and move earth seem very handy for looting.
 
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