Vote tally - A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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[X] "A thousand pardons to you, my Lord. I did not mean to pay overmuch attention to your conversation, but I wouldn't be a very adroit purveyor if I did not see a more obvious opening than that."
-[X] "From what I could gather, you are looking for ward against harm greater than common steel might grant, no?"
--[X] Draw the conversation towards the Dragon King's army in the east, more than his legion, his darkenbeast riders, his alchemical weapons and tinctures, mages capable of breaking up a wedge of cavalry on the charge or in greater concentrations battering formations of soldiers to ruins, or steam cannons capable of sinking a ship with a well placed shot or smashing down reinforced fortifications.
---[X] Try to draw him gradually to private quarters, with either just himself or trusted advisers at worst, before coming to the fulcrum of your visit.
----[X] "How would you contend with these dangers? How could you stop these methods to empower and raise the strength of his forces on the ground or at sea, or place more of his Legion in the air itself? How, when that does not even broach the subject everyone has been wondering, would one stop dragons on the wing in earnest?"
-----[X] Reveal your presence. "You do not."
-------[X] Wave down the threat of violence. "Come now, my Lord, if I wanted to do great violence, I have proven myself beyond reproach in honoring guest right and peace flags. I would have attacked in the courtyard at the earliest."
--------[X] "I have come to deliver unto you what I have to the people of Westeros this past month: An alternative, my rationale, and reason."
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