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

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Artemis1992 said:
Sweet. Better than Mithril for Armor, exept for the spell-failure.
Who could use that?
I'd say Bronn for sure, and any Erinyes that doesn't go into a casting class.


That on the other hand is utterly frustrating.
We can't use it directly, we can't transport it.
If we had it at home I'd suggest extracting the mythic power for some purpose or working, but since we can't teleport or planeshift with it we might as well destroy it to make sure te Sultan can't reclaim it.
Oh, we still have no insulting name for that guy, by the way.
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The Brass Ballsack?

Offbrand Gold?
 
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    Well, here we go. Suggestions welcome!

    This is thematic and not strictly descriptive. Jokes allowed and encouraged, but outright memes and ugly stuff isn't.

    Lofwyr - explanation




    MAGIC BREAKS. WIZARDS DIE.

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    I hit the image limit, so have a link. Accurate personality.
    Accurate anatomy, but lacks BLING.

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    THEY SHALL BY MY PRAETORIANS, AND THEY SHALL KNOW NO FEAR
     
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    • egoo said:
    @Duesal, I think Salamanders will appreciate having a Heart Tree.
    We'll need to find a very specific place for it to be okay for a short/medium period of time, while we are making Fire!Heart Tree modification, but it is possible for us to deny enemy resources in such a way.
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    You're forgetting that we haven't actually unlocked Fire Immunity for the weirwoods yet.

    There's also the problem that the Salamanders live on floating islands, and that weirwood roots likely need a hell of a lot more earth than they'd get on those islands.

    This isn't like Prime Material where we can just spam weirwoods so long as we're sure the locals will respect the trees. There's a lot of preparation that needs to happen here.
     
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    Interlude CCCXXI: A King Most High
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    • A King Most High​

    Seventh Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC

    "To Sarnor! To the High King, long may he reign! To allies wise and strong!" the well-wishes echoed through the warehouse accompanied by the clinking of cups and the stamping of feet, but Valaena did not feel like celebrating. The wine tasted sour, the triumph also. They had performed the task they had been charged with, or near enough that the king would be able to smooth out any troubles: over twelve-thousand people were ready to leave for Sallosh as long as they managed to scrounge up the supplies, Vargor was ready to take up his task, ancient crown or no, and yet...

    "What's wrong? Did someone skin your cat or something?" Maelor asked, propping himself on the wall beside her.

    "It would take a rather big knife to skin Dawnfyre," she shot back. While the boy was no less irreverent than he had ever been, the days of working with him, working under his command really though he had never put it in those terms, had taught Valaena to value both his arcane talents and his skill for drawing smiles forth even in the grimiest circumstances.

    "Still thinking about the fight?" he asked after a moment, more seriously.

    "No," the girl shook her head a little too vehemently. "I'm not some weeping maiden to go weak in the knees at..."

    "I felt like shit cutting down those poor enthralled bastards too," Maelor interrupted. "Maybe if we'd been cleverer setting up the ambush Hurn would have come alone. Maybe we could have taken the time to break the spells on all of them instead of just tossing out an unraveling and then keeping on to him... There's a saying in Mantarys, though: 'Maybes make poor stew'. What's done is done, and you can't turn back time..." He stopped for a moment, thinking. "Well, you probably shouldn't try anyway."

    "It's not just that." Valaena lowered her voice. "Vargor..."

    "Come on. I think Mercy had the right idea about this here feast," the boy replied, motioning to the door.

    Many of the guests tried to strike up a conversation with them on the way to the door, but none insisted when it became clear the two were bent on leaving. The tale of how they and the others had defeated the unliving 'soothsayer' had already begun growing in the telling.

    Once they were far enough away from the warehouse that even the sound of revelry faded in the distance, Valaena continued her cut-off thought: "We killed dozens of people, counting the silver helms, all to put a mummer's prince on a new-made throne. How's that fair to the people in there?"

    "Fair?" Maelor snorted. "Do you think they would have rather been ruled by some corpse that had crawled out of the grave maggots and all?"

    "No, of course not, but they think they are getting a new High King when Vargor was never supposed to be anything but a convenient banner bearer to a ruse, a way to rally the people before Hurn could raise up Mazor Alexi to take up his mantle anew. We are selling those people fool's gold."

    "Do you think they're going out there for the sake of some old maps and musty books talking about a kingdom three centuries in the ground?" came the surprising answer. "Sure it's what they toast to, but what they really want is land to call their own and food so their children don't go hungry. There's plenty of people who'd follow a devil, horns and all, if he would be sure to give 'em that." So saying the boy tapped one of his own small golden horns with a smile. "I might come to prove that some day."

    "You'd be a better lord than Vargor," the girl allowed.

    "Faint praise that is..."

    "No, of course not. He's..." Valaena trailed off, realizing what she had been about to say. "I guess he's decent enough. Maybe he can get a wife with the proper lineage."

    "The Viceroy has a daughter he's looking to wed I hear," Maelor jested.

    "We're not here to conquer Saath," the Velaryon scion replied.

    The boy laughed: "We aren't, but there's a dragon coming tomorrow."

    After a moment Valaena joined him. She could not really argue with that point.

    OOC: Hopefully all the exposition got across, but if something is unclear ask and I'll answer in the thread, since you are going to get the full story as soon as you arrive in the town anyway.
     
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    • egoo said:
    Apparently our library complex is called Loreseeker's Halls.
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    Edited it on photoshop so I don't forget but it'll have to wait until the next update. I'm not wasting money downloading a 5.2 MB image to imgur then linking that here just to put in a new name for the library.
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    Great job with this map, by the way.
    It offers a wonderful amount of context for me and helps imagine any action happening in SD way better.
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    Thanks, that's the reason I made the map for myself.

    EDIT: Nice update @DragonParadox BTW, how close is Valaena to a level up, feels like she's been level 5 for ages despite loads of interludes featuring combat?
     
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    @DragonParadox, so we're going to need to sell the idea of the Imperium to the Sarnori? From the update it seemed like they had the idea that they'd be independent or something rather than part of a much larger empire.

    Either way, Viserys should be able to bring them all to heel pretty damn quick.
     
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    @DragonParadox, so we're going to need to sell the idea of the Imperium to the Sarnori? From the update it seemed like they had the idea that they'd be independent or something rather than part of a much larger empire.

    Either way, Viserys should be able to bring them all to heel pretty damn quick.
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    Their leader is fine with bending the knee, some of his subjects less so.

    Good night guys, see you tomorrow with extra-planar prison breaks.
     
    @egoo, I added in that great SMBC comic. It does fit us quite well!

    Anyway, does anyone have things to add? Even just ideas of what I should search for?
    Should I do some more characters? Malarys, maybe? He's defined and interesting enough to deserve some image love of his own... And after this interlude I want to see what I can find for Maelor.
     
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    Valaena: "We didn't come here for glory, or riches, or to take land away from people!"

    Maelor: "Well, one, all of those things are still nice."

    Valaena: "Beside the point!"

    Maelor: "Sure. Okay. Let's set aside that, even given who we work for."

    Valaena: "T-that is to say..."

    Maelor: "We aren't here to tell them to dip their banners or get their knees muddy. But Viserys has been making Lords go weak-kneed with a couple of compliments for months. Why did you think he sent us to the ass end of Western Essos?"

    Valaena: "To, well, help restore Sarnor..."

    Maelor: "Why?"

    Valaena: "..."

    Maelor: "We're the conquering villains in this story, Valaena."

    Valaena: "No!"

    Maelor: "Yup."

    Vaelaena: "I wanted heroics!"

    Maelor: "Who says villains can't be heroes? Just pays before. Rather than after."
     
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    ryuan said:
    Which comic?
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    It's in Lya's pictures. This one:


    Oh, and I'm adding one for Maelor:


    It's not so much about the clothes or color (no way we'll even find an accurate picture of our characters in this quest without drawing them ourselves). It's the attitude! The eldritch! The weird!

    Which is why one of Viserys' pictures is a turtle on its back. If you have ideas like that for the other characters, I want them!
     
    Do we already have an Orange Ion Stone like item for Viserys? It would mean we can hit epic range CL at level 19 for normal spells and CL 18 for fire spells.

    Also @TalonofAnathrax where did you post the pictures?
     
    So let me get this straight, not only are we planning on looting the prisoners, but we're also going to take the damn doors as well?

    Are we going to try and take the building too or are we leaving that here? I mean I'd understand if we did, it just feels kinda, what's the word I'm looking for, half-assed. Like when we get down and steal shit we get the fuck down and steal all the shit, leaving something behind just doesn't sit well with me.

    It's like leaving the last slice of pizza in the box, it just feels wrong.
     
    ryuan said:
    Do we already have an Orange Ion Stone like item for Viserys? It would mean we can hit epic range CL at level 19 for normal spells and CL 18 for fire spells.

    Also @TalonofAnathrax where did you post the pictures?
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    He's got a Ring of Arcane Might planned, which accomplishes the same thing. I wouldn't mind the Ioun Stone version of the effect, though. I've also got a Ring of Mystic Fire on his wishlist, for another +1 caster level to Fire spells.

    EDIT: I'm also planning for some Beads of Karma soon. Next month, probably. Those are good for a +4 caster level boost for 10 minutes once per day.
     
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