Vote tally - A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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[X] Visit Highgarden
-[X] Before deciding on the approximate amount of chill (which is little to absolutely none) you have for the pursuit of the Fey, you will have a conversation one of the last few thorns in your side from the Reach.
--[X] This conversation is meant for all three of them, but it's essentially something like this:
---[X] They lost. That's so sad.
----[X] "Regardless of your original reasoning for bargaining with the Fey, however righteous you are currently feeling knowing you are resolved in your choices, I don't care. That doesn't leave me with a positive impression of your competence, much less your good intentions. You have to understand how much work goes into actually protecting your realm, and I should know, given hundreds of life or death battles I've experienced to do precisely that."
-----[X] Wave your hand dismissively at anything they say to defend themselves in regards to the last bit: "Yes, yes, not everyone is capable of meeting such forces, sword in hand or claw extended. Again, I don't care. Your allies had alien goals which you could not have possibly comprehended in full. They were unreliable factors which could not be planned around with the level of knowledge and amount of agency you possessed. That you did not lose more than what you did during that infiltration by Baator speaks more of that bargain than anything else."
------[X] "Here is what is going to happen. My trust in the good word of House Tyrell begins like any debt, at a deficit. I expect a few things to happen first before House Tyrell may walk in the light like any other vassal in good standing of mine. I expect complete, and utter loyalty. Not the sort wrought of good works exchanging hands from both sides, or faith restored after numerous services performed, I mean the sort of devotion one who has raised them up from nothing holds. If you cannot be as faithful to me as House Manderly is to Stark, why do I keep you around?"
-------[X] "Do not make me think all of Aegon's decisions were mistakes. I still have some respect for the man, even as I witness the results of leaving so much unchanged. You will not get another chance to waste."
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[X] Crake's battle plan, applied to Highgarden
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