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

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Azel said:
@DragonParadox, can't we just assume to buy healing belts and PfEs in bulk on the planes?

All this "craft next month" feels needlessly complicated.
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It wouldn't bother me to purchase them from a planar market. We've been tying up quite a bit of our crafting capacity each month producing PfE rings and amulets.

I would like to just place a bulk order for them when we go to pick up our latest commission, in addition to buying their current stock. At market price, each PfE item will cost us 800 IM and Healing Belts will cost 150 IM. Would a standing monthly order of 15 each be too much?
 
Goldfish said:
It wouldn't bother me to purchase them from a planar market. We've been tying up quite a bit of our crafting capacity each month producing PfE rings and amulets.

I would like to just place a bulk order for them when we go to pick up our latest commission, in addition to buying their current stock. At market price, each PfE item will cost us 800 IM and Healing Belts will cost 150 IM. Would a standing monthly order of 15 each be too much?
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I'd like to stay away from standing monthly orders and just buy or craft them at need. A standing monthly order of 15 each would be 2250 IM for Healing Belts and 12000 for PfE items, bringing the total to 14250 IM every month in extra expenses.

Just because we're rich doesn't mean we should throw it away like that.
 
Duesal said:
I'd like to stay away from standing monthly orders and just buy or craft them at need. A standing monthly order of 15 each would be 2250 IM for Healing Belts and 12000 for PfE items, bringing the total to 14250 IM every month in extra expenses.

Just because we're rich doesn't mean we should throw it away like that.
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That is virtually nothing when compared to our normal expenditures just to maintain the Legion, let along our infrastructure improvements. We've talked about it before, but now we're in the position to be able to afford to begin outfitting all of our important people with PfE items and Healing Belts. Government officials, Scholarium initiates, Minotaurs, Legion officers, etc.

Maybe we can get bulk discounts?
 
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Goldfish said:
That is virtually nothing when compared to our normal expenditures just to maintain the Legion, let along our infrastructure improvements. We've talked about it before, but now we're in the position to be able to afford to begin outfitting all of our important people with PfE items and Healing Belts. Government officials, Scholarium initiates, Minotaurs, Legion officers, etc.
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Us spending lots on infrastructure doesn't justify this expenditure. I want the same thing, I just don't want to pay market price for it. It'd be better to hire more crafters and have them make this stuff, or train up more mages.
 
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[] During the Night
-[] Look at what's in the two chests the undead left behind after they departed to the afterlife, then put it in the general loot pile to be dealt with at the end of the trip.
-[] On a side note, negotiate with Naeron for the method to mass-produce enchanted celestial weapons.
--[] Trade the Craftsman's Pride ritual for it.
-[] See if there are any cursed items the archons have collected that they're willing to part with.
-[] Reward the Accompanying PCs, their role is done for this mission, though Naeron himself is to continue on with the rest of the Companions.
--[] 1x Cleric 9 (Healing and Protection domain)
---[] Reinforced Segmented Adamantine Fullplate, a Healing Belt, a Razorsharp Adamantine Thinblade (+1), a PfE item to be crafted next turn, and a bonus of 1000 IM
--[] 1x Paladin 7
---[] Reinforced Segmented Adamantine Fullplate, a Healing Belt, a Valyrian Steel Greatsword, a PfE item to be crafted next turn, and a bonus of 1000 IM
--[] 2x Fighter 11
---[] 2 Reinforced Segmented Adamantine Fullplates, 2 Healing Belts, 2 Valyrian Steel Greatswords, 2 PfE items to be crafted next turn, and a bonus of 1000 IM each
---[] Total Costs: 4 Healing Belts (75 IM each) = 300 IM, 4 PfE Items (400 IM each) = 1200 IM (to be crafted next month), 4 Reinforced Segmented Adamantine Fullplates (55 lbs each) = 220 lbs of Adamantine, 1 Razorsharp Adamantine Thinblade (+1) (2 lbs of adamantine + 400 IM enchanting cost), 3 Valyrian Steel Greatswords, and a total bonus of 4000 IM in cash to be split evenly.
 
Duesal said:
Us spending lots on infrastructure doesn't justify this expenditure. I want the same thing, I just don't want to pay market price for it. It'd be better to hire more crafters and have them make this stuff, or train up more mages.
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We can do that, too, and I would in fact prefer it. We have more people who need them now, however, than we can provide ourselves.
 
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Part MMCDXXXVI: Crossroads of the South
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    • Crossroads of the South ​

    Twenty-Seventh Day of the Sixth Month 293 AC

    While Dany seeks her answers in dreams you converse with Yrael of what you have found and what there is yet to do. The archon lord is troubled by talk of sorcerers out of the Shadow, and perhaps even more so by word of the beasts you have found.

    "This fiend from the east can be slain, and I trust that he will be by your hand or that of your companions. But if these tainted beasts should surge northwards sustained by the growing tide of magic, I fear these lands will be far more troubled," he explains quietly and though it is not possible to read the radiance within his helm as you might the face of a mortal man his posture grows stiff with weariness, perhaps frustration also at being compelled by circumstance into a part he feels ill-suited for.

    "You are not alone, my friend," you offer. "If you have need of more men the Legion can be moved in days. If you require mages then I will send them or come myself."

    "And should I have need of dragons in the sky?" the Lord of Mantarys asks.

    "Then I will probably also come myself," you answer, playing along. "Dragons can be quite troublesome to manage for one who is not a dragon himself."

    "I am aware of that fact," he answers dryly. It takes you a moment to recognized the faintly jesting undertone in the words.

    In the end it is decided by both of you that you should make the oath between you known to the world once the matter of Lyceos is dealt with. Further, Naeron agrees that the Mantarys expedition has run its course and it would be too perilous to risk them any further south into the broken lands. You offer the warriors gold and treasure, armor of adamantine, and much to their surprise, dragonsteel for their efforts just the same. Generosity wins one more allies after all.

    "What's in those chests of yours?" the bowman asks upon witnessing your generosity, earning himself a glare from one of his more somber companions. Perhaps they fear giving offense knowing that you are their lord's liege, or mayhap they heard too many rumors on the wind.

    "A skilled warrior is valuable when fighting with a stick, or no weapon at all, but that does not mean that one should arm and armor them by that same measure. I gift you these things not because of what I have gained, but because of what you may do in the days to come."

    Four searching gazes look towards you, some more subtly than others. Judging from their expressions as they take up the weapons, be they merely enchanted or wrought of new-made spell-steel, you had passed whatever weighing they had all set you against.

    For all that the first warrior certainly was not wrong in thinking the chests contained prizes of great worth, though not quite in the manner he might have thought. The first holds rare scrolls, from plays to poetry and histories lost to the world, to treatises of architecture and engineering. It is the second, however, that is the most intriguing.

    Nestled among silken pillows stitched with spells of timelessness is an egg... not a dragon's egg, but one of a far stranger beast, a firewyrm, such as those that had laid down the dragon roads of old. Alas that you cannot find any notes on how to raise or control the beast for it seems that in the haste of leaving Lyceos they must have been left behind. You had left them in the keeping of Lya and Malarys, though even the two of them together could not read through it all in the span of hours.

    Gained Valyrian Documents and Books (Unresearched)

    Gained Firewyrm Egg

    "She was trying to preserve what lore she could, she knew," Lya says softly as you approach the stone table in the library where you had laid down the writings for safe-keeping.

    "An admirable attempt," Malarys agrees, gaze murky with some unspoken memory as he looks down at a scroll unrolled before him, some fragment of an ode or poem from the look of it. You may not have found much in the way of arcane secrets, but culture is in its own way a prize beyond measure.

    You do not have long to ponder the matter, however, for moments later Dany rushes into the room, the guise of an angel still upon her, as clear a mark of one preparing for battle as a knight's harness. "We have to go now! The fiend knows..." she gasps out what she had found in a few short words.

    ***​

    The journey is again far from smooth, but you navigate the troubled currents to the end and find yourself again in the spire-filed vale. It is not, however, as you remember it. The grey clouds above are black and tall as the looming mountains, and from them comes rain tainted with vitriol that sears the skin and even slips between your scales and onto the flesh beneath.

    "Come on, it's this way!" Dany calls after glancing first at the Wayfinder's dial for direction and then at the horizon. So like an arrow from a bow you fly, following the path laid down in dreams.

    You see it first as a light on the horizon through the curtain of grey... you feel the heat upon your scales, the gust beneath your wings, then the earth shakes, the hills twist like the roiling sea.

    "Fuck, it's a..." Ser Richard's last word is lost in a savage roar, but it is hardly needed.

    A wyrm of boiling stone and living flame tears itself from a wound in the flesh of the land. No, not a dragon, not truly. Something in the shape of one certainly, but this is no more a true dragon than the horror of ice and deathless malice you had encountered in the lands beyond the Wall. Eyeless and tongueless, a thing of rage and more than rage... destruction given form, the Doom on wings of fire come.


    For all the horror of is being your gaze is drawn nonetheless to that which lies beneath its wings, to trees burning like torches, to hills that break, and among it all to the strangest sight all but lost among the destruction, a dome of fused dragonstone still enduring the blows shielding whatever lies underneath. It would not last long....

    "We have to..." you begin formulating a plan.

    "It's a distraction!" Dany shouts over the dreadful din of the storm and dragon. "We have to keep going, or else we will lose the key!" The echo of prophecy is upon her lips, not a spell but something deeper, something older.

    What do you do?

    [] Fight the dragon, it will only take a few moments
    -[] Write in plan

    [] Split up
    -[] Write in plan

    [] Fly on, you've a task, you will not be swayed from your path
    -[] Write in plan

    OOC: You did not roll too well for loot (14 and 55), but still it's Valyrian loot so pretty good just the same.
     
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    • Goldfish said:
    We can do that, too, and I would in fact prefer it. We have more people who need them now, however, than we can provide ourselves.
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    Sure, but I'd still insist on them waiting to get equipped rather than rushing and overspending. With the amount spent on one commission we could outright hire several crafters and get all of that stuff crafted.
    DragonParadox said:
    For all the horror of is being your gaze is drawn nonetheless to that which lies beneath its wings, to trees burning like torches, to hills that break, and among it all to the strangest sight all but lost among the destruction, a dome of fused dragonstone still enduring the blows shielding whatever lies underneath. It would not last long....
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    @DragonParadox, is this a Heart of Summer like the Frost Dragon gave us a Heart of Winter?
     
    This would be an ideal moment to hit it with Avasculate-Power Word Petrify combo. But we don't have the latter.
     
    Azel said:
    @Duesal, how much total cash do I need to deduct for paying out the expedition?
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    ---[] Total Costs: 4 Healing Belts (75 IM each) = 300 IM, 4 PfE Items (400 IM each) = 1200 IM (to be crafted next month), 4 Reinforced Segmented Adamantine Fullplates (55 lbs each) = 220 lbs of Adamantine, 2 Razorsharp Adamantine Thinblades (+1) (4 lbs of adamantine + 800 IM enchanting cost), 2 Valyrian Steel Greatswords, and a total bonus of 4000 IM in cash to be split evenly.

    @Azel, I'm looking at a deduction 224 lbs of Adamantine from our stores (leaving us with 73,097 lbs), 4 Healing Belts that @Goldfish says are already crafted, 2000 IM of crafting materials to enchant two Razorsharp Adamantine Thinblades to +1 and to make four PfE items next turn, and lastly 4000 IM in cash as one-time bonuses.

    If we want to buy the PfE items that's 4000 IM (bonuses) + 2400 IM (PfE) = 6400 IM.
     
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    Duesal said:
    ---[] Total Costs: 4 Healing Belts (75 IM each) = 300 IM, 4 PfE Items (400 IM each) = 1200 IM (to be crafted next month), 4 Reinforced Segmented Adamantine Fullplates (55 lbs each) = 220 lbs of Adamantine, 2 Razorsharp Adamantine Thinblades (+1) (4 lbs of adamantine + 800 IM enchanting cost), 2 Valyrian Steel Greatswords, and a total bonus of 4000 IM in cash to be split evenly.

    @Azel, I'm looking at a deduction 224 lbs of Adamantine from our stores (leaving us with 73,097 lbs), 4 Healing Belts that @Goldfish says are already crafted, 2000 IM of crafting materials to enchant two Razorsharp Adamantine Thinblades to +1 and to make four PfE items next turn, and lastly 4000 IM in cash as one-time bonuses.

    If we want to buy the PfE items that's 4000 IM (bonuses) + 2400 IM (PfE) = 6400 IM.
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    I would also buy the enchantment for the blades, so another 1,600 IM for a total of 7,000 IM.
     
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