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

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Anyone see any issues with the plan that need to be addressed?
 
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Rather than wait for the giants to come, Richard could attack.

Depending on how well Rejection works either with Ruby Nightmare Blade against a single giant, or with Mithral Tornado against as many as possible if most resist.
 
@DragonParadox, would it be ooc for Ymeri or her followers to spread chaos and destruction around even when Bey is dead and his looted/destroyed?

Would it help to sell our ruse better if we have DragonFire elementals roam around the city gunning for efreeti, but destroying everything in general?
 
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@DragonParadox, would it be ooc for Ymeri or her followers to spread chaos and destruction around even when Bey is dead and his looted/destroyed?

Would it help to sell our ruse better if we have DragonFire elementals roam around the city gunning for efreeti, but destroying everything in general?
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Somewhat yes. they are fey not demons. Also such wide-ranging destruction might get in the way of the Shaitans' plans.

Anyway vote closed.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Nov 3, 2018 at 10:43 AM, finished with 46 posts and 9 votes.
  • [X] Plan "Sinanju ain't got shit on us!" Part One
    -[X] Viserys casts Nerveskitter on Malarys, then uses a Searing Agonizing Firebrand spell, targeting the Fire Giants. He also hits the Bey with a Firebrand burst, if possible.
    -[X] Malarys cancels his Sign spell in order to set his Initiative to 21 (26 with Viserys' Nerveskitter). He then uses a Quickened Targeted Greater Dispel Magic on the Bey to insure the Bey is stripped of protective spells and magical effects. If successful, he targets the Bey with a Destruction spell (DC 28). If the Dispel is unsuccessful, he uses another Targeted Greater Dispel Magic against him rather than Destruction.
    -[X] Rina cancels her Sign spell in order to set her Initiative to 22. She uses her Rejection spell, attempting to blast the Fire Giants down the hallway before they can attack us. She uses Alter Fortune to insure the success of her spell.
    -[X] Dany cancels her Sign spell in order to set her Initiative to 24. If the Bey survives Malarys' Destruction spell, she targets him with own Destruction spell (DC 28). She uses Alter Fortune, if necessary, to insure the Bey's death. If Malarys destroyed the Bey, she instead uses her Radiant Assault spell on the Fire Giants.
    -[X] Lya cancels her Heightened Awareness spell in order to gain a +4 bonus to her Initiative check. If the Bey still lives after being struck by both Malarys and Dany's Destruction spells, she uses Spell Enhancer then targets him with all three bolts from an augmented Lightning Lance spell. If he has been destroyed and any Fire Giants still live, she instead hits them with her augmented Lightning Lance spell, selecting targets as she sees fits. She uses Alter Fortune to assist with Malarys' Greater Dispel Magic or Destruction spells, if necessary, rather than using Spell Enhancer.
    -[X] Vee activates her Earring to gain True Seeing, then readies an action to cast Greater Dispel Magic to Counterspell anything the Bey attempts to cast, should he prove able. If the Bey is destroyed before she needs to act, she instead casts Summon Nature's Ally VII (using a 6th level spell slot) in order to Summon five Large Fire Elementals for the next part of the plan. She uses Alter Fortune to assist with Malarys' Greater Dispel Magic or Destruction spells, if necessary.
    -[X] Garin activates his Earring to gain True Seeing, then prepares to use Shadow Jump in conjunction with Shadow Pounce to intercept the Bey's invisible guardian, should it be present.
    -[X] Richard activates his Earring to gain True Seeing, then moves to intercept any Fire Giants which are able to withstand our initial assault well enough to be able to attack. If a single Giant remains, he attacks using Ruby Nightmare Blade. If two or more remain, he instead uses Mithral Tornado to make an attack against all of them.
    [X] Plan "Sinanju ain't got shit on us!" Part Two
    -[X] If the first part of the plan goes smoothly, immediately move on to the next phase;
    --[X] Garin carefully plants Grey Worm's holy symbol of Ymeri so that it appears to have been lost in a struggle. The Ymeri-marked note written by Grey Worm which we used to fool the Fire Giant guards will also be left nearby, partially charred but still legible.
    --[X] Vee Summons another five Large Fire Elementals (Summon Nature's Ally VII with a 6th level spell slot), then a Huge Fire Elemental (SNA VI with a 5th level spell slot), and finally a Greater Fire Elemental (SNA VII with a 6th level spell slot).
    --[X] Viserys casts Arcane Spellsurge, then uses his Robes of Mysterious Conjuration and an 8th level spell slot to Summon a Greater Searing Fire Elemental, a 7th level spell slot to summon a Huge Searing Fire Elemental, and two 6th level spell slots to summon three Large Searing Fire Elementals.
    ---[X] As Vee and Viserys' Elementals are Summoned, they are sent out in groups down the hallway and out into the rest of the Tax Office building to wreak havoc in Ymeri's name, constantly gibbering to themselves about the greatness of Ymeri, her undying flame, her incredible beauty, etc. The Searing Fire Elementals are to focus on Efreeti and other enemies who are immune to Fire, while the mundane Fire Elementals destroy records, harry guards, and generally sow confusion. Viserys casts Searing Agonizing Mass Fire Shield on up to three groups of Fire Elementals before they are sent on their missions.
    --[X] While Vee and Viserys are Summoning the Fire Elementals and giving them their orders, everyone else is quickly looting the Bey's office of anything of value, stuffing the ill-gotten gains into available Bags of Holding or into Viserys' cloak, as necessary. They are careful to Dispel any magically trapped materials.
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[] Plan "Sinanju ain't got shit on us!" Part One
-[] Viserys casts Nerveskitter on Malarys, then uses a Searing Agonizing Firebrand spell, targeting the Fire Giants. He also hits the Bey with a Firebrand burst, if possible.
-[] Malarys cancels his Sign spell in order to set his Initiative to 21 (26 with Viserys' Nerveskitter). He then uses a Quickened Targeted Greater Dispel Magic on the Bey to insure the Bey is stripped of protective spells and magical effects. If successful, he targets the Bey with a Destruction spell (DC 28). If the Dispel is unsuccessful, he uses another Targeted Greater Dispel Magic against him rather than Destruction.
-[] Rina cancels her Sign spell in order to set her Initiative to 22. She uses her Rejection spell, attempting to blast the Fire Giants down the hallway before they can attack us. She uses Alter Fortune to insure the success of her spell.
-[] Dany cancels her Sign spell in order to set her Initiative to 24. If the Bey survives Malarys' Destruction spell, she targets him with own Destruction spell (DC 28). She uses Alter Fortune, if necessary, to insure the Bey's death. If Malarys destroyed the Bey, she instead uses her Radiant Assault spell on the Fire Giants.
-[] Lya cancels her Heightened Awareness spell in order to gain a +4 bonus to her Initiative check. If the Bey still lives after being struck by both Malarys and Dany's Destruction spells, she uses Spell Enhancer then targets him with all three bolts from an augmented Lightning Lance spell. If he has been destroyed and any Fire Giants still live, she instead hits them with her augmented Lightning Lance spell, selecting targets as she sees fits. She uses Alter Fortune to assist with Malarys' Greater Dispel Magic or Destruction spells, if necessary, rather than using Spell Enhancer.
-[] Vee activates her Earring to gain True Seeing, then readies an action to cast Greater Dispel Magic to Counterspell anything the Bey attempts to cast, should he prove able. If the Bey is destroyed before she needs to act, she instead casts Summon Nature's Ally VII (using a 6th level spell slot) in order to Summon five Large Fire Elementals for the next part of the plan. She uses Alter Fortune to assist with Malarys' Greater Dispel Magic or Destruction spells, if necessary.
-[] Garin activates his Earring to gain True Seeing, then prepares to use Shadow Jump in conjunction with Shadow Pounce to intercept the Bey's invisible guardian, should it be present.
-[] Richard activates his Earring to gain True Seeing, then moves to intercept any Fire Giants which are able to withstand our initial assault well enough to be able to attack. If a single Giant remains, he attacks using Ruby Nightmare Blade. If two or more remain, he instead uses Mithral Tornado to make an attack against all of them.
[] Plan "Sinanju ain't got shit on us!" Part Two
-[] If the first part of the plan goes smoothly, immediately move on to the next phase;
--[] Garin carefully plants Grey Worm's holy symbol of Ymeri so that it appears to have been lost in a struggle. The Ymeri-marked note written by Grey Worm which we used to fool the Fire Giant guards will also be left nearby, partially charred but still legible.
--[] Vee Summons another five Large Fire Elementals (Summon Nature's Ally VII with a 6th level spell slot), then a Huge Fire Elemental (SNA VI with a 5th level spell slot), and finally a Greater Fire Elemental (SNA VII with a 6th level spell slot).
--[] Viserys casts Arcane Spellsurge, then uses his Robes of Mysterious Conjuration and an 8th level spell slot to Summon a Greater Searing Fire Elemental, a 7th level spell slot to summon a Huge Searing Fire Elemental, and two 6th level spell slots to summon three Large Searing Fire Elementals.
---[] As Vee and Viserys' Elementals are Summoned, they are sent out in groups down the hallway and out into the rest of the Tax Office building to wreak havoc in Ymeri's name, constantly gibbering to themselves about the greatness of Ymeri, her undying flame, her incredible beauty, etc. The Searing Fire Elementals are to focus on Efreeti and other enemies who are immune to Fire, while the mundane Fire Elementals destroy records, harry guards, and generally sow confusion. Viserys casts Searing Agonizing Mass Fire Shield on up to three groups of Fire Elementals before they are sent on their missions.
--[] While Vee and Viserys are Summoning the Fire Elementals and giving them their orders, everyone else is quickly looting the Bey's office of anything of value, stuffing the ill-gotten gains into available Bags of Holding or into Viserys' cloak, as necessary. They are careful to Dispel any magically trapped materials.
 
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Part MMCDXV: False Flame Arising
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    • False Flame Arising ​

    Sixteenth Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC

    For one seemingly so weighted down with cloth of gold and bright jewels, the Bey moves with uncanny swiftness, flinging a piece of glittering jet over your head and directly at Malarys. The chamber quakes with a soundless gust of wind that strikes the mage lord off his feet and binds him in an egg of shimmering power, then quick as thought he casts a spear of fire not at any of you but at a circle of burnished brass set just above the door.

    Malarys takes 23 damage

    As an unseen blade sharper than a razor's edge whistles down upon the threshold you dive forward on sheer instinct. More than a trap... another barrier. Raising the ivory rod in your left hand you call out a single word of unraveling and the barrier falls even as Malarys shatters the barrier that binds him with a word from bloodied lips, then another stripping your foe of all his arcane protections. Yet where the mage lord needs then to pause for breath you look beyond the study door to the giants only now beginning to raise their weapons. The air itself becomes fire hotter than a furnace's heart at your command.

    The giants bellow in rage and challenge as much as pain even as their armor drips and melts upon their forms and one almost cleaves Garin with a jagged axe longer than a man is tall. Alas for it that no blow however mighty can cleave in twain a shadow, and not even their rage can endure Rina's voice heavy with words of racing wind and rushing doom twice over spoken.

    So fly three of the guards like a stone from a war engine's arm, tumbling through the air, their flailing arms gouging at the walls of the corridor. To their credit the remaining pair try to trample Ser Richard to reach their master's side. Sooner might goats trample a lizard-lion. Oathkeeper arcs with impossible swiftness, gouging a pound of half-charred flesh from one's side and slipping beneath the other's ribs to unleash a wellspring of bubbling blood.

    Thus does the Bey of Beggars stand alone to face his fate. Perhaps he too deserves some measure of respect for he speaks not words of bluster or threats but instead calls: "Whatever you're being paid, I'll double it!"

    "Why would we want to take your bribe when we can claim all that and more from your corpse?" your sister asks, not with the polished malice of her guise but the sheer and honest rage at everything the being before you represents: the Sultan's heartless cruelty, slavery deeper and more hopeless than any mere mortals could inflict.

    The word of death thrums in the air like the shadow of dark wings, though for a moment it seems as though the Bey would survive it, perhaps even long enough to flee. Fate trembles upon the precipice... and then the Bey's bejeweled robes fall in a heap, naught but ash within them just as Garin's daggers flashed downwards.

    "Damn," your friend shakes his head. "No work for a honest blade these days."

    Dany gives a slightly weary but relieved laugh as she tosses him the worm's icon of devotion and the letter. "Make it look good oh, honest one."

    Lya meanwhile joins you in sweeping through the office, ripping through wards by sheer strength of sorcery and enveloping anything that so much as seems valuable in the folds of your cloak. If that glittering abyss could be said to feel anything then you would almost call it... content with the task at hand, until that is you reach a very particular piece—the table with the sapphire-scaled hatchling still trapped within.

    Gained Treasures of the Bey (Unsorted)

    "Maybe we should smash it," Ser Richard suggests upon laying eyes upon it, not without merit you must agree.

    "If we can try to make peace and pacts with Amrelath damned and accursed, then surely we aught not slay a hatchling without a word," Dany counters. "What evils could it have worked in so brief a time?"

    That too is sense as much as mercy, not least in that such a decision should not be made in haste, and so you slide the table into the clinking depths of your cloak alongside practically everything in the once lavish chamber now stripped almost to bare stone.

    Gained Blue Dragon Hatchling

    "They might suspect a dragon just on account of how much was taken," Lya says in jest.

    "In any other place, perhaps, but here?" you laugh. "Greed is not a vice before the gates of the City of Brass, it is a way of life."

    While you had busied yourself with looting Vee had been calling up spirits of flame, pillars that licked the ceiling and vast bonfires that needed no fuel crawling along the ground. At her command they pour outwards, babbling of the glory of Ymeri. Decent messengers, but poor fighters...

    From your own blood you kindle forth spirits alike but born instead of all-consuming flame and bid them to hunt Efreeti wherever they may find them.

    Just as the sounds of dozens of heavy footsteps begin to sound from the corridor the seven of you vanish, leaving behind naught but corpses, dust, and falsehood.

    ***​

    Zherys awaits you in your study with news from Lys and a surprising offer: "I see that congratulations are in order for thine victory, Excellence. Yet I cannot help but think that it would be a waste of your time, and even that of your mighty companions, to hunt down the remaining fire fey. My own agents in Lys have already trailed a pair of the creatures and I would be more than glad to see them deal with this loose end discretely."

    "How did they know where to look, Wisdom?" Dany asks. Though the question could easily have been accusatory it has only an air of frank curiosity.

    "The fey are likely to sell tales of each other for a song or a riddle if one but knows what questions to ask." The High Speaker replies as he absently sirs his tea, more from habit than from any notion that such a small thing could cause him any discomfort you suspect.

    "And which did they sell?" You smile in appreciation of the light verbal spar.

    "The latter," comes the laconic reply.

    What do you decide?


    [] Agree, the point is well made ,and if you are to be a good lord to the High Speaker then there must be trust between you

    [] Ask that his agents work with Hermetia, she could use more foes to test her magic against, and it will give you some idea of just what Zherys' resources in Lys are

    [] Politely refuse, you would rather deal with all of this yourself

    [] Write in

    OOC: The trap Viserys dodged was a reflex save or die for anyone wondering.
     
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    • ...What color of scale was Meraxxes, again?

    *not wanting to deal with dragons intensifies*

    *sacrificial tendencies intensify accordingly*
     
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