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

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One Autumn Leaf said:
I wonder how Malarys and Eragorn are with one another. Fellow dragon lords I wouldn't be surprised if Malarys took one look and said "my student now" and ran with it. Also he has an egg correct?
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On the one hand, he's a commoner (smallfolk) nobody with really no redeeming skills beyond being a dragonrider and having a sliver of Valyrian blood... and having a crippling guilt/suicidal complex.

On the other, he's one of maybe 3 living dragonriders. He would be a powerful ally to cultivate for the future, and for a minimal return of investment too; childishly easy for someone like Malarys to manipulate...

Whatever the case, its an interesting dynamic if anything. Light Novel logic says he could even try to foist Valeana unto him to shake her off his back.
 
bigbow said:
On the one hand, he's a commoner (smallfolk) nobody with really no redeeming skills beyond being a dragonrider and having a sliver of Valyrian blood... and having a crippling guilt/suicidal complex.

On the other, he's one of maybe 3 living dragonriders. He would be a powerful ally to cultivate for the future, and for a minimal return of investment too; childishly easy for someone like Malarys to manipulate...

Whatever the case, its an interesting dynamic if anything. Light Novel logic says he could even try to foist Valeana unto him to shake her off his back.
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He's not just a dragonrider, he's a dragonrider sorcerer, low level sorcerer of course, but he has a PC class in addition to a dragon.
 
TotallyNotEvil said:
So Eragon wants Valeana who wants Makarys who wants Valeana to want Eragon?

Perfect.
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A good way to do that might be for Marlys to give Valeana advice about the value of helping others and such :). It takes time to do right, but there are many ways to make the world a better place.

Help for.. What was Eragon's name again? Marlys gets her away, and is a long term factor.
 
BeepSmile said:
A good way to do that might be for Marlys to give Valeana advice about the value of helping others and such :). It takes time to do right, but there are many ways to make the world a better place.

Help for.. What was Eragon's name again? Marlys gets her away, and is a long term factor.
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Joran of Dragonstone, level 1 sorcerer, future rider of Ember.
 
I'm definitely in favor of getting best whale set up with protection. Who cares about forgetting rebellion among the salamanders when we can begin building the flying fire whale aramada :drevil:
 
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DragonParadox said:
But most terrible of all was the east. There a great crimson Wyrm towered like a mountain, fit to overshadow the very sun in its pride and throw the world in everlasting darkness. In one claw it held a jeweled staff crackling with foul magic, and in the other a thunderbolt. A venomous viper crawled at his feet, hissing in pleasure. As it rose into the sky the man could see that under the shadow of the dragon's wings only foul and poisonous things grew, for that shadow was itself alive with dark purpose.

The man knew fear then, as he had never known it before: not in the hour before his first battle, not as he lay dying in the muck, nor even when he first understood his old life was lost to him forever. T'was then that he heard a voice at once commanding and kind spoke, resounding as much from within him as from without.

"Despair not child," it, no He said. "For though though a time of testing an turmoil such as has not been seen since Hugor's day has come upon the world, you are not alone. Ever do We walk with you for We dwell within your heart."
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I guess he underestimated us the least of all our enemies, exept maybe Tor.

I'm looking forward to crushing that one, his reputation, his works, his faith, himself and finally at last his god.
 
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Artemis1992 said:
I guess he underestimated us the least of all our enemies, exept maybe Tor.

I'm looking forward to crushing that one, his reputation, his works, his faith, himself and finally at last his god.
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Artemis1992 said:
Yay! We are vision-worthy! And with us stand Lya (the Staff), Waymar(the lightning), Tyene(the snake), Garin(the shadow) and Vee(the growing things).
Is Richard not worth mentiong?
And does the Dragon only have one head?

Besides that we should really at least try to kill Damphair before he can bring things that should not be into our world. (Aside from Xor, he's great and should totally stay in our world)
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Did Richard already had Mindblank at that time?
 
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Part MMCCXC: Of Justice Writ in Ice
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    • Of Justice Writ in Ice ​

    Eighth Day of the Fifth Month 293 AC

    The slender ships of the Efreeti in no way resemble the round-bottomed whalers of Ibben. They seem more like broad-headed arrows from above expanding into heavy rams, a broadhead cast in brass and horribly bone. The realization of what the Efreeti had been making their ships from, the same ships that according to Baella are the lurking monsters of calves' nightmares, is sickening. Even so, you will not stoop to slaughter, not least because it would upset your gentle friend.

    By the same token you've no interest in paying any mind to the niceties. "Rina, why don't you start?" you ask her, voice carefully balanced to be supportive but not patronizing.

    "I.. I will, Your Grace." Her expression hardens as she turns from you to look towards the ship below, eyes glittering deathly blue.

    Cold fingers trace angular symbols over your scales sending a shiver down your spine... a blessing, yes, but where your eyes might see an uncertain young woman in need of a friend, your instincts are slower by far to trust. Luckily you've had a great deal of experience ignoring instincts.

    "Thank you," you rumble softly, sincerely. Her aid will make all this far swifter and more certain.

    Your foes cut a fearsome figure, enough to put to flight most mortal foes for certain you would wager, for they are flame and fury, armed with cruel axes to split a Fire Whale's stony skin, swords of brass long since quenched in blood. In bespelled armor they are guarded against raiders and beasts as much as their quarry for their blood-soaked gems are after all coveted enough to kill for twice.


    Against the blow of the blizzard leaden with deathly black ice hail it serves them not at all. Not one weapon cuts true, not one spell finds its mark before you sweep the decks... though granted the mage and every crewman near him twisting until they take the shape of turtles with shells of iron and skin of flame does not give the sorcerer many chances to shine. Some small whimsically cruel part of you wonders what would happen if you just let your prisoners loose. Would it not be fitting for those who hunt thinking beings as beasts to end their days as beasts themselves, never able to recall what they once were save perhaps as a shadow glimpsed in dreams?

    Only their captain and first mate show themselves to be a true Efreeti. As you descend upon the gaudily-dressed genie in the middle of the deck, he rushes over to a prostrated mortal slave and lifts him like a rag doll: "Wish the dragon away!" he screams, half in fear and half in rage.

    You will never know what the slave said as Dany's spell swiftly silences both of them... and Ser Richard takes issue with the attempted attack, jumping the last thirty feet from his shadow steed to the deck to land point first with Oathkeeper in the offending fire spirit's neck.

    "You should teach him to be less messy with that," Tyene jests as she sweeps past to pick out crew members from the rigging with her whip.

    As the fire elementals who had joined together from the shield ships crew came over the railing, all organized resistance broke, with the first mate willing himself away by the power of some trinket he held while some of the crew casting themselves over the railing in terror and a few made the local offer of surrender: offering their hands to be manacled.

    What do you do?

    [] Finish the fight, death in battle or upon a weirwood's roots is the least they deserve

    [] Accept the surrenders, Baella would wish you to
    -[] Write in terms (optional otherwise defaults to previous cases of capturing slaver ships)

    [] Write in

    OOC: It bears remembering these are not 'just fishermen', but beings with a wish SLA, if they get desperate enough. The other whaler fights will not be shown on screen but I needed to both show the risks, in case you want to refine your plans of attack, and get the vote on surrenders.
     
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    • Sarasin said:
    I'm definitely in favor of getting best whale set up with protection. Who cares about forgetting rebellion among the salamanders when we can begin building the flying fire whale aramada :drevil:
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    Yeah aside from being something we can most definitely feel good about, and being one of the things we can point to, in order to prove to any good outsiders that we are helping people we don't rule, it should also get us a rather big bounty from the Shaitan, it's not how they expect us to make problems for the Efreeti, but they aren't stupid enough to cheat a dragon out of his due on a technicality.
     
    I'm pretty excited about this. Even for mere whaling ships, these seem like they're worth quite a bit. Not to mention whatever wealth they have alongside the obvious enchanted weapons and armor.
     
    @DragonParadox would mulching copious amounts of that gray seaweed lower the treshold for PoFweirwood scion out of the Fungus Forge?

    Edit: Can we sacrifice the Living Brass in a Day of Change ritual or mulch it?
     
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    DragonParadox said:
    As a prisoner tally the surviving crew, surrendering and turtled is
    1. 13 Advanced medium fire elemental fighter 4
    2. 4 Advanced medium fire elemental ranger 5
    3. 1 Advanced medium fire elemental sorcerer 6
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    Not a bad haul at all. It's a damn shame the actual efreeti were either killed or managed to escape, though. Fingers crossed for better luck on the other ships.

    Anyway, @DragonParadox, will we be tallying the loot from these ships at the end of the action? Pretty much the entire crew had enchanted Living Brass for arms and armor, not to mention whatever magic items the Efreeti had, and whatever treasures they'd accumulated in the ship itself.

    Every ship worth the name has a sizable paychest.
     
    Duesal said:
    Not a bad haul at all. It's a damn shame the actual efreeti were either killed or managed to escape, though. Fingers crossed for better luck on the other ships.

    Anyway, @DragonParadox, will we be tallying the loot from these ships at the end of the action? Pretty much the entire crew had enchanted Living Brass for arms and armor, not to mention whatever magic items the Efreeti had, and whatever treasures they'd accumulated in the ship itself.

    Every ship worth the name has a sizable paychest.
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    I'll roll it all at the end of the update yes.
     
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