This is not a surprise visit to her House, we are even far enough that we can simply leave if she attacks us.
Azel already has us revealing ourselves, i want to do that in a positive light.
No, he has us making an announcement after careful observation of Lanna. You, on the other hand, have us show up to offer "help" right after we obliterated a major magical institution and everyone in it. I genuinely cannot take that proposal seriously. I just can't. I really don't see how this could go well.
No, he has us making an announcement after careful observation of Lanna. You, on the other hand, have us show up to offer "help" right after we obliterated a major magical institution and everyone in it. I genuinely cannot take that proposal seriously. I just can't. I really don't see how this could go well.
Teleport is distinct enough that she can tell arrived from far away.
I say let the dice roll, you want to meet Lanna anytime before we take over? This is our best chance, its our diplo against her, and we have the deck stacked in our favor.
Edit: look, we can observe her after arriving, then Contact her through er.. telepathy, whatever its called, literslly no downsides over Azel's
Ouch, going from vampiric strenght to a below-average human must have hurt, even if it doesn't matter in a fight.
This was a lot better when she was Undead herself. If she is like Garin, stunned by healing from Negative Energy she now has to stay away from her undead minions to avoid that explosion that would have just healed her last year.
Still good for groups of minions though, and as a Wizard she can afford to stay back.
Many of her lower level spells are still melee-enhancers for herself, or touch-range, which is less useful now that she's a living Wizard.
But still many fine things in there, if not as nice as it was.
And when will the STR 8 Wizard hit someone in unarmed combat?
Useless for now.
All in all that skillset really suffers from her lack of Vampirism.
She should consider looking into Polymorph or Transformation options, or maybe a Ring of the White Wyrm to get a proper warform and make use of those parts.
Or she could go full minion-mancer and get used to staying behind the lines, though a reliable undead lieutenant would be extremly helpful for that. Know any Undead searching for such a job?
[X] DAS Plan, "Only some fun allowed" version
-[X] Teleport immediatly back to SD
-[X] Everyone Who can fly through Magic or transformation does so, then immediatly teleport back, several hundred feet above Lanna's last know position.
-[X] Carefully observe her reaction to the collapse, if she does not seem distressed proceed with the plan.
-[X] Contact Lanna with ... speak inside head spell "I am here to help, i came as soon as soon as i could, are enemies attacking the city?"
-[X] Explain your agents saw the explosion, you knew about the alchemists working with Devils and feared the worst
Des, but I'd be really annoyed if she had to change her style completly because the thread's rampant anti-undead attitude forced her to change her nature.
Better to try and find a way to adapt her current skillset to greater efficiency, in my eyes.
Des, but I'd be really annoyed if she had to change her style completly because the thread's rampant anti-undead attitude forced her to change her nature.
Better to try and find a way to adapt her current skillset to greater efficiency, in my eyes.
That'll be difficult to manage given her current limitations and the aforementioned prejudice against Undead. Better to make a back burner project out of her and gradually bring her up to spec.
I really wish we could have left her as a Vampire. It comes with so many perks and so few drawbacks, it was a shame for her to lose it.
Des, but I'd be really annoyed if she had to change her style completly because the old gods, rhelors, good aligned creatures in general, and every living creature under the suns rampant anti-undead attitude forced her to change her nature.
Better to try and find a way to adapt her current skillset to greater efficiency, in my eyes.
Undeath sucks. This is a fundamental reality of the setting. You can say whatever you want, but DP is QM and as long as they say "undeath sucks" then undeath sucks.
@Azel, @Duesal, @Goldfish, this is a bit off topic but it's something that's been bugging me for a while.
What is the plan for Aemon? I mean, I've heard 'reincarnate him as a dragon' tossed around but never gotten a definitive answer. How exactly would that work? Does he need to die naturally, or can we do it now? Because that sounds incredibly awesome and if we can do it we should as soon as possible. It'd let him contribute meaningfully, give a huge boost to the nights watch (and later on us), and just in general be a good idea.
@Azel, @Duesal, @Goldfish, this is a bit off topic but it's something that's been bugging me for a while.
What is the plan for Aemon? I mean, I've heard 'reincarnate him as a dragon' tossed around but never gotten a definitive answer. How exactly would that work? Does he need to die naturally, or can we do it now? Because that sounds incredibly awesome and if we can do it we should as soon as possible. It'd let him contribute meaningfully, give a huge boost to the nights watch (and later on us), and just in general be a good idea.
@Azel, @Duesal, @Goldfish, this is a bit off topic but it's something that's been bugging me for a while.
What is the plan for Aemon? I mean, I've heard 'reincarnate him as a dragon' tossed around but never gotten a definitive answer. How exactly would that work? Does he need to die naturally, or can we do it now? Because that sounds incredibly awesome and if we can do it we should as soon as possible. It'd let him contribute meaningfully, give a huge boost to the nights watch (and later on us), and just in general be a good idea.
Do we need a plan for him?
This is his decision, really. Bloodraven and Egg nudged him towards it, but honestly we won't be doing anything until he asks. And then we'll see what he wants. He'd probably prefer to be young and human again. And tarrangar's Dragon-based pet projects have pretty much zero support. I doubt they'll happen.
@Azel, @Duesal, @Goldfish, this is a bit off topic but it's something that's been bugging me for a while.
What is the plan for Aemon? I mean, I've heard 'reincarnate him as a dragon' tossed around but never gotten a definitive answer. How exactly would that work? Does he need to die naturally, or can we do it now? Because that sounds incredibly awesome and if we can do it we should as soon as possible. It'd let him contribute meaningfully, give a huge boost to the nights watch (and later on us), and just in general be a good idea.
That whole "reincarnate as dragon" thing was literally something repeatedly parroted by one user who absolutely under no circumstances was willing to let it go for months on end.
The other alternative that was picked up by at least three other users, which was generally not met with tacit refusal or arguments against it, was picking up Cyclical Reincarnation to bring him back as a younger but similar Dragon-Blooded man with Valyrian features, because it neatly sidesteps awkward questions about getting our Uncle out from under his oaths by keeping to their technicalities (service until death).
And allows him to pick up a Draconic Sorcery themed spellcasting class. Or other Valyrian legacy themed classes.
@Azel, @Duesal, @Goldfish, this is a bit off topic but it's something that's been bugging me for a while.
What is the plan for Aemon? I mean, I've heard 'reincarnate him as a dragon' tossed around but never gotten a definitive answer. How exactly would that work? Does he need to die naturally, or can we do it now? Because that sounds incredibly awesome and if we can do it we should as soon as possible. It'd let him contribute meaningfully, give a huge boost to the nights watch (and later on us), and just in general be a good idea.
They said that Ironborn had sailed every sea and seen every shore, Theon Greyjoy thought, yet looking up at the rocky cliffs that gutted from the narrow shoreline of the Isle of Toads like a jagged crown he could not help but wonder, had Ironborn survived every shore? "Do we fly up to fight?" the boy spoke up with considerably more confidence than he felt, something he had grown quite skilled at when sailing with captain Moonsong. If you played a part long enough and skillfully enough you'd come to own it, after all.
"Only if you want to get swatted out of the sky by lashing winds or struck by lightning," the Lady of Naath proclaimed. Softening her tone slightly she added, "I would not want to try it myself. I'm not quite as resilient to that sort of thing as I used to be."
Theon was curious of course, for though he had felt the lessening of the darkness around the mage he did not know nearly enough of deep magic to guess what it might mean, but he was not so bold as to simply ask directly to her face. Maybe the Dornishwoman would know... better yet the Royce knight. He didn't look like the type who could keep a secret long.
"So we're climbing, right?" Asha asked impatiently, interrupting his thoughts. "I don't see any handholds worth a damn..."
"There is no need..." the witch said, stepping into the stone as though drawing aside a silken curtain. A moment her hands emerged from the stone like pale stepping stones.
To offer a more sturdy footing she made use of Gorlo, the flail wielding bull-man. He could have probably carried most them up the cliff like sacks of wheat, though no one quite wanted to test the limits of the magic thus.
Once on top of the cliff they were all greeted by a vista that was no less grim and unwelcoming. Stringy moss covered the slick stones like the rotting skin of some diseased beast while gnarled and twisted trees tangled their limbs overhead as though grasping greedily at the sun. High above the calls of gulls seemed mournful and lost.
"This land is sick." Theon was not quite sure what this confidence was born of, but it was far more genuine than his earlier bravado.
"It's the idol, the creatures of this isle have long since worshiped unwholesome powers from beneath the waves," Lady Drekelis said.
"Fish-men?" Royce asked, hand already on the hilt of his bronze sword.
"Yes," the pale mage replied with a smile that revealed the barest flash of fangs, all the more chilling for it. "They live in caves with a main seaward entrance and a landward one protected by the cliffs. We would be well-served in putting one of them to the sword and then using it to lay a trap for the hags. Keeping them away from the open sky would considerably lessen their powers and enhance ours."
"Why would they come?" Asha asked, echoing Theon's confusion.
"Why, because we are going to invite them... in the proper form, of course," came the answer swift as it was sly.
***
The creatures were hideous to behold, slick greenish skin, wide and flat unblinking eyes, faces that seemed called from Theon's darkest nightmares. Yet with every arrow loosed the dread grew less, with every dying scream his fingers were surer on the bowstring and words of power more steady on his lips. He had stabbed a Deep One, a right and proper horror... he would not bow to these mewling horrors, deceived by the hags into serving them.
The running skirmishes culminated in front of a cave mouth opening like some misshapen maw between two black-stone obelisks where the strength of the clan had been gathered, not just warriors garbed in flotsam and welding the rusted blades of their victims, but a sorcerer wielding a jagged bone knife that pulsed with an unclean light that drew the eye even as it repelled the mind and the soul. The thing raised its clawed hand in a gesture of supplication to dark powers, gargling some fel enchantment, only to stop abruptly at the sight of them and instead tried to plunge the dagger into his own chest...
A ray of blood-red light struck it down before the weapon could even prick the skin.... dead before it hit the ground, Theon knew instinctively.
"Why'd you do that?" Asha asked between gasping breaths as she charged the remaining fish-men, Valyrian steel axe in hand, as Theon himself put arrow after arrow into the air.
The Lady of Naath did not answer until the fight was done, the twisted bodes piled three feet deep before the cave mouth, their blood seeping into the cursed earth. "Sacrificial magic is rarely something one wishes to face if given a choice, something for you all to remember as you clear other lairs. For now, let us lay our trap..."
To his own surprise Theon found no fear in his heart at the prospect, only the savage joy of his still racing heart.
OOC: I'm going to have to do this in two parts because this is a lot to cover, not only in terms of writing, but actually rolling the fight scenes and it's very late for me right now. I'd have every chance to mess up a complex high-level fight.
Has to be that 7th Level spell. Which I think we're still searching for in planar markets. As a bonus he would look like the older brother we never had.
We've been told by DP that reincarnation into a True Dragon will be possible for the primary Targ bloodline if they so wish. Beyond that, the metaphysical link isn't strong enough. I'm not against that where it comes to Aemon, if anyone deserves easy immortality, he does. Our entire immediate family has immortality basically baked into their classes - Dragonsingers have a ritual that Rhaella will be able to redesign with help that binds them to the survival of their bloodline. As long as it endures, so do they. Dany has a proto-phylactery and is also a high level Cleric. Viserys is a True Dragon. Our good-sister and niece? That's a bit more complicated.
@Azel, @Duesal, @Goldfish, this is a bit off topic but it's something that's been bugging me for a while.
What is the plan for Aemon? I mean, I've heard 'reincarnate him as a dragon' tossed around but never gotten a definitive answer. How exactly would that work? Does he need to die naturally, or can we do it now? Because that sounds incredibly awesome and if we can do it we should as soon as possible. It'd let him contribute meaningfully, give a huge boost to the nights watch (and later on us), and just in general be a good idea.
That discussion went circular and repetitive and people tend to not like bringing it up. Truma from great frustration. Not a good thing. I'm sure you understand and will be sensitive to tread goers trigger points. Personally, I wanna hit him it a rez and make him human or avoral (winged elf, think that's the name of them).
Careful with that, he's kin. Spirit of the action trumps the word of that action, probably, but there's no sense borrowing trouble we can dodge so, so easily Get one of our friends to help him kill himself instead of Viserys!
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"but a sorcerer wielding a sorcerer wielding a jagged bone knife" rofl. Just picture it! A sorcerer weilding a sorcerer weilding a knife at someone! *cracks up*
Do we need a plan for him?
This is his decision, really. Bloodraven and Egg nudged him towards it, but honestly we won't be doing anything until he asks. And then we'll see what he wants. He'd probably prefer to be young and human again. And tarrangar's Dragon-based pet projects have pretty much zero support. I doubt they'll happen.
That whole "reincarnate as dragon" thing was literally something repeatedly parroted by one user who absolutely under no circumstances was willing to let it go for months on end.
The other alternative that was picked up by at least three other users, which was generally not met with tacit refusal or arguments against it, was picking up Cyclical Reincarnation to bring him back as a younger but similar Dragon-Blooded man with Valyrian features, because it neatly sidesteps awkward questions about getting our Uncle out from under his oaths by keeping to their technicalities (service until death).
And allows him to pick up a Draconic Sorcery themed spellcasting class. Or other Valyrian legacy themed classes.
So what I'm getting out of this is that the idea is plausible, but everyone's sick of it because of Terranger's inability to shut up ever or use basic debating skills.
I'd like to tell Aemon that it's possible, personally. Being 90+ years old fucking sucks, magic healing or no, and I think he'd like to be able to meaningfully contribute to saving the world. If he wants to just be young again, or become a goddamn dragon, or even leave the Nights Watch at all, I'm fine with it.
That discussion went circular and repetitive and people tend to not like bringing it up. Truma from great frustration. Not a good thing. I'm sure you understand and will be sensitive to tread goers trigger points. Personally, I wanna hit him it a rez and make him human or avoral (winged elf, think that's the name of them).
Careful with that, he's kin. Spirit of the action trumps the word of that action, probably, but there's no sense borrowing trouble we can dodge so, so easily Get one of our friends to help him kill himself instead of Viserys!
So, Ser Richard Lonmouth?
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"but a sorcerer wielding a sorcerer wielding a jagged bone knife" rofl. Just picture it! A sorcerer weilding a sorcerer weilding a knife at someone! *cracks up*
@Azel, @Duesal, @Goldfish, this is a bit off topic but it's something that's been bugging me for a while.
What is the plan for Aemon? I mean, I've heard 'reincarnate him as a dragon' tossed around but never gotten a definitive answer. How exactly would that work? Does he need to die naturally, or can we do it now? Because that sounds incredibly awesome and if we can do it we should as soon as possible. It'd let him contribute meaningfully, give a huge boost to the nights watch (and later on us), and just in general be a good idea.
