Vote tally - A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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[X] Plan: Quietly yelling at the Azure and Orange delegations.
---[X] Call the Azure leader, Hua Fen, Pol Ning and her minder to one of your smaller solars for receiving guests.
---[X] Tell them that you have some things to say about the events of yesterday and that you want them to listen closely.
---[X] If they at any point try to speak up without having been given express permission to do so, immediately spend 2 Mythic Power to cast a Mythic Bloodwish to replicate Mythic Silence, centered on you and excluding yourself, effectively revoking their noise making privileges without having to actually cast anything on them. The spell is cast without any outwards sign except a swift and slight cutting motion with his hand.
---[X] To Azure: Both the undertones of their speech and their gifts was blatantly obvious to you. You threw them lifeline after lifeline since you did not want to cause any more of a scene than necessary. It is at this point irrelevant to you if this has been the result of arrogance, sabotage or simple incompetence. Most likely a mixture of all three. You have written a nice letter to his lord that explains their screw-ups in detail and heavily suggests for him to not send diplomats to anything more important than a pig-sty until he has cleaned house in the diplomatic corps. Next time, they should listen to Hua Fen, who as far as you know tried to prevent this mess but was not listened to.
---[X] To Orange: Releasing a potentially hostile Kami in the middle of a courtly function would have constituted a breach of guest right at the least and manslaughter at worst if anyone would have died from his actions. You do not know what precisely he was thinking while trying to do so, most likely nothing at all, and will be happier to never hear his justification, but he should appreciate that, had Pol Ning not interrupted him, he would most likely be dead by now, either due to palace security cutting him down or due to being hanged for the dead and wounded he caused. As far as you are concerned, he owes Pol Ning a life debt. As far as the palace security is concerned, he is a security threat and will be removed immediately, should he ever try to set foot into the palace again. State again that Pol Nings help in freeing the Kami was much appreciated, but you could not reward their delegation by accepting it right after one of theirs nearly caused a bloody war. You have written a nice letter detailing these things for their lord.
---[X] To Both: The Imperium is neutral so far in the Yi-Tish civil war. The events at the coronation have not changed that. They should be happy about this. If, in the future, any of the Yi-Tish factions cause harm to Imperial citizens, allies or interests in the pursuit of conducting their civil war, especially if it is done deliberately in an attempt to discredit their opponents, the response will be swift and decisive.
---[X] If you had to turn off the sound, remind them that speaking out of turn is exceptionally rude, then dismiss them and wish them a good journey home without actually giving them a chance to speak, lest someone wants to negotiate himself into a summary execution.|
[X] Afterwards, furthermore ensure that there are no hard feelings between you and Hua Fen, given the... spicy... nature of this meeting. You have greatly elevated your estimation of her in your letter to Bu Gai, and hope it will be taken seriously.
[X] Similarly, in another short meeting, tell Pol Ning you hope that her brother is listening, because although the Azure delegation was full of monumental fuck-ups, the person he was trusting the least, her, was the only one you'd trust remotely near anyone you care about. That's not a good look, considering she wasn't even nominally in charge.
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[X] Plan: Quietly yelling at the Azure and Orange delegations.
---[X] Call the Azure leader, Hua Fen, Pol Ning and her minder to one of your smaller solars for receiving guests.
---[X] Tell them that you have some things to say about the events of yesterday and that you want them to listen closely.
---[X] If they at any point try to speak up without having been given express permission to do so, immediately spend 2 Mythic Power to cast a Mythic Bloodwish to replicate Mythic Silence, centered on you and excluding yourself, effectively revoking their noise making privileges without having to actually cast anything on them. The spell is cast without any outwards sign except a swift and slight cutting motion with his hand.
---[X] To Azure: Both the undertones of their speech and their gifts was blatantly obvious to you. You threw them lifeline after lifeline since you did not want to cause any more of a scene than necessary. It is at this point irrelevant to you if this has been the result of arrogance, sabotage or simple incompetence. Most likely a mixture of all three. You have written a nice letter to his lord that explains their screw-ups in detail and heavily suggests for him to not send diplomats to anything more important than a pig-sty until he has cleaned house in the diplomatic corps. Next time, they should listen to Hua Fen, who as far as you know tried to prevent this mess but was not listened to.
---[X] To Orange: Releasing a potentially hostile Kami in the middle of a courtly function would have constituted a breach of guest right at the least and manslaughter at worst if anyone would have died from his actions. You do not know what precisely he was thinking while trying to do so, most likely nothing at all, and will be happier to never hear his justification, but he should appreciate that, had Pol Ning not interrupted him, he would most likely be dead by now, either due to palace security cutting him down or due to being hanged for the dead and wounded he caused. As far as you are concerned, he owes Pol Ning a life debt. As far as the palace security is concerned, he is a security threat and will be removed immediately, should he ever try to set foot into the palace again. State again that Pol Nings help in freeing the Kami was much appreciated, but you could not reward their delegation by accepting it right after one of theirs nearly caused a bloody war. You have written a nice letter detailing these things for their lord.
---[X] To Both: The Imperium is neutral so far in the Yi-Tish civil war. The events at the coronation have not changed that. They should be happy about this. If, in the future, any of the Yi-Tish factions cause harm to Imperial citizens, allies or interests in the pursuit of conducting their civil war, especially if it is done deliberately in an attempt to discredit their opponents, the response will be swift and decisive.
---[X] If you had to turn off the sound, remind them that speaking out of turn is exceptionally rude, then dismiss them and wish them a good journey home without actually giving them a chance to speak, lest someone wants to negotiate himself into a summary execution.|
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[X] Yellow Emperor of Carcosssa...
[X] Plan: Quietly yelling at the Azure and Orange delegations.
---[X] Call the Azure leader, Hua Fen, Pol Ning and her minder to one of your smaller solars for receiving guests.
---[X] Tell them that you have some things to say about the events of yesterday and that you want them to listen closely.
---[X] If they at any point try to speak up without having been given express permission to do so, immediately spend 2 Mythic Power to cast a Mythic Bloodwish to replicate Mythic Silence, centered on you and excluding yourself, effectively revoking their noise making privileges without having to actually cast anything on them. The spell is cast without any outwards sign except a swift and slight cutting motion with his hand.
---[X] To Azure: Both the undertones of their speech and their gifts was blatantly obvious to you. You threw them lifeline after lifeline since you did not want to cause any more of a scene than necessary. It is at this point irrelevant to you if this has been the result of arrogance, sabotage or simple incompetence. Most likely a mixture of all three. You have written a nice letter to his lord that explains their screw-ups in detail and heavily suggests for him to not send diplomats to anything more important than a pig-sty until he has cleaned house in the diplomatic corps. Next time, they should listen to Hua Fen, who as far as you know tried to prevent this mess but was not listened to.
---[X] To Orange: Releasing a potentially hostile Kami in the middle of a courtly function would have constituted a breach of guest right at the least and manslaughter at worst if anyone would have died from his actions. You do not know what precisely he was thinking while trying to do so, most likely nothing at all, and will be happier to never hear his justification, but he should appreciate that, had Pol Ning not interrupted him, he would most likely be dead by now, either due to palace security cutting him down or due to being hanged for the dead and wounded he caused. As far as you are concerned, he owes Pol Ning a life debt. As far as the palace security is concerned, he is a security threat and will be removed immediately, should he ever try to set foot into the palace again. State again that Pol Nings help in freeing the Kami was much appreciated, but you could not reward their delegation by accepting it right after one of theirs nearly caused a bloody war. You have written a nice letter detailing these things for their lord.
---[X] To Both: The Imperium is neutral so far in the Yi-Tish civil war. The events at the coronation have not changed that. They should be happy about this. If, in the future, any of the Yi-Tish factions cause harm to Imperial citizens, allies or interests in the pursuit of conducting their civil war, especially if it is done deliberately in an attempt to discredit their opponents, the response will be swift and decisive.
---[X] If you had to turn off the sound, remind them that speaking out of turn is exceptionally rude, then dismiss them and wish them a good journey home without actually giving them a chance to speak, lest someone wants to negotiate himself into a summary execution.|
[X] Afterwards, furthermore ensure that there are no hard feelings between you and Hua Fen, given the... spicy... nature of this meeting. You have greatly elevated your estimation of her in your letter to Bu Gai, and hope it will be taken seriously.
[X] Similarly, in another short meeting, tell Pol Ning you hope that her brother is listening, because although the Azure delegation was full of monumental fuck-ups, the person he was trusting the least, her, was the only one you'd trust remotely near anyone you care about. That's not a good look, considering she wasn't even nominally in charge.
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