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The Three-Headed Dragon: A Viserys Targaryen Quest Continuation [abandoned]

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Magoose said:
Cthulu... what the hell are you doing here?
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O͕̗̲̠̜̦ͣ̆͗ͭ͂͛̓̚N͚̦̬̤̲̒̾̿̆̏C͉̲̆ͨͤͧ͌ͯ̓È̺͓̩͒̎ͫ.̣̟ͪ͛́ͨ̀͛̐ ̩̱̼̭̘͖̦̮̿ͩ̚J͈̖̟̭̞͈̺̿ͅU̯̖͉̮̻̬̺̣ͣ͐̄̏̃ͦͩS̥̪͕͕͕̈̔͆̍T̝̥͙̭̗͚̩̦̘͂̏͂̀̂̓ͯ̇ ͙͖̻̰̟̫̼̍̽̌ͪ̈́ͣ͂O̗͙͖͉̘̓͆̆̄̏N̰̦̏̓C͖͖̘̦̩͓͔̓ͨ̋ͅE̹̭̯̖ͬͭ͋̆̐ͮ̊̈́̔ ̖̻̤͉ͥ̀ͣÍ͔̺̊̋ ̱̜̳͈̑̈͗ͩW̰̩̰̦̤͈̐̑͋͛̽ͨ͗͋A̠̻̺̝͕̓Ṇ͇̦̗̬̩ͦ̀͐͂ͩT̹̦̅̿ͩ̈́͌ ̱͔̫͖̐̽̐́ͤT̰̮̟̔̽̋̃̓O͔͒͊̄̆ ̩̝ͤ̂̎͒͌̽͐ͭB͕̅͑̿͊Ḙ̥̱̒͆̆̉ͭ̒ͣ ̣͈͚̙̯ͮ̈́̓͆̐ͦI̙͌̒̓N͇͌ͤͥ̽̏̓ͅ ̼̘͈̔̌ͩͬ̓̉Á̻̮̗̻̠̓ͦ͗ ̟̔ͭͫ̍U̘̙̼̓̍̓͊̂͌́͛̂ͅN̥̮̝̍͆͒̽̒̚I̜̯̓͒̉͊̓V̜̾̍ͧE̬̭͍̘̐̑ͮ̅̌̐̇Ṟ̤̠̘̘͔ͮͧ̿ͅS̥̫̭̝̫̭̺̱̭̓͋ͧ̆̄ͪ͋͐̚E̬̭͓͚͖̊̊͛͐̓͂ͤ ̘̪̯̱͚͍̮̩̊ͪ̓͐W̟̤̯͍̭̺͓͌͒̈ͪ͐̈́̚ͅI̝͔͈͈̲̩̓̎̍̓̓͗̀T̼͕͕̄̊ͯ̍̂̌̃ͨ̈́H̞̠͍͍̤̩̖̄ͭͫ̋ͫͧ̿ͦO̰̜̠̓̑ͬ̓̑Ũ͉͉͔̤̯͎͉̻͛̚T̤̥͇̘̹̐ ̤̬̬͐̐B͎̣͕͈̪̻̪̾̇̚E̫̰͕̮̲̞̗͆̿ͅI͍͍̼͖͍ͥ͊̂ͅN̩̞̫̘ͦĠ͈̤̺̤͈͔̯̎ͦ̆ͣͯ̐̎ͪ ̦̬̳͈̩̱͚̤ͫ̏̈̈͋̀̒͂ͨM͍̹͛̑ͅA̜͕̖͍̪̽̅͐ͯͮ͋̈́̚ͅD͚̪͖͈̝͓̔͛̂ͬͦE͙̙̫͓̗̳̻̼ͮͧͨ̓ͥ ̯̯̬͖̟͓ͤͦÌ͔̖͈̆̃̊͂ͭ̆N̖͍͓̞̮͈̬͍ͯ̒ͥ̓ͩͧ̄ͯȚ͔̥̟̒ͩ͒͐ͅO̖̭͉̰̤̜̻ͩ ̙̘̪̫̱̜͕́̈̆͂̏̄̆C̣̟̓U̜̱̳̜̟̭̪̤̎͆̔͒̿D̩̋D̙͈̫̑̉ͥ͋ͩ̿ͯͦL̙̤̮̰͎̺͎̐̀̋ͤͅY̭͕̠͔̮͙͒ ͓̙̥̰̲̼͕̿̇͐ͣͧ̐P̲͙̻̣̤͙̿̊ͤ̍ͩͩ͌L͎̺̓͗͑̆͌ͥ̓̑ͩÜ͇͕͔͉̇S̰ͪ̍H̙̮̜̻͂̾̊͛ͫ́̐̚I̯̮̻̱̓̆ͪE̞͓̟̰ͫͭͨͦ̈́S̞̥͚̼̫̑̒͆̇̽ͣ̃̚ ̘̦̫̫͔̊ͤ̿̓ͤ͐͋O̪͉̬̰͙̽͌̃͂̆Ṙ͍͙͗̐̊͋̀̂̆ͤ ̳̥̣̤͙̳̽̓̆ͪT̻̊͑͗̾ͩE̪̰̼̰̩̰̹͕ͦ̏ͭ̿N͇̦̱̲̄T̟͓͎̻̞̲͍̝̖̍͋̐͌ͧͥ̒̊Ȃ͙̰͚͗̈́̄̇͊̽̔͑C͔̻̖̪̘̯̭͑ͣͯ̇̾ͅL͙͖̼̠̟̦̗͊̅̊̄̉̐̓̿Ẽ̪̭͋̌ ͇͎̬͈̗̳͓̅ͤ̿ͅͅH̺̠̲̼ͤ̆ͩͭ̔͗ͨE͇͙̤̣̥͚͍̓̎ͦͦ͛͒N̼̼͇͕̭͇̬̿ͦ̑ͯT͙̞̣̱̍̅͆̃ͯͪ̑A͉̞̭͚̻͎̞͖ͧ͗ͭͤ̎̚I̼̅̈́͊.̩̲̠̻̉ͫ̍ ͙͈͈ͥ͐̓͛ͧ̿ͦ͗I̫͇͕̫͓̙̮̹̐̈̓̿S͕͆̏ͧ͒ ͉̯͔̥̲̀̑ͨͥͨT̠͔͈̗͕̎̓͗̍̏ͦ̈H̹̜͕͎̟͐͆̎ͯ̑̆ͯͬͮͅA̗̝͕̯̪͉͚͖ͯ̒̅͆Ṯ̤͕̙̹͚͍̲ͣͮ͌͒ ̜̺̞̼̰̫͙̟ͧ̑ͮ̾̍͋͛̓S̘̮̺͇̦͎̳͓̐̋ͣ̒͐̏ͩ͆O̯̤̦̠̼̯̺͚ͪ͊ͩ̔̾̋ͫ ̬̟̺̲̯̮͕ͨͣ̽ͫ͊̚M͈͍̤̿̾́Ǔ̺͈̱͇̭̦̺̻ͫ̿ͧͧC̻̫̖͚̬ͭͧ͛ͫ̾̐̿̚H̞ͩ̍͌͗̄̚ͅ ̖͈͎̦̙̗̫̾͑ͯͭ̒̀̓T̘̟̜̫͊͗O̯͎̗̥̙̞̮̥̤ͯ̾̊ ̻͇̬̻̰͕̪͊̃̎ͭ͗A̞̟̣͚̙̋͆̌͗̽̀Ș̹̲ͩ̒ͩ͂͒̈́K̮͇̞̋̈ͣ̾ͪ̑ ̻̲̪ͤ̌F̩̲̩͎̻͍̃O͎͔̥̪͉̗͍̰͒̄̄̏ͣͫR͕̩̞̩̫̓ͣ͂͌ͩ̌ͮ̾?̗̲̯͇̩̏͆́̋ͬͫ͊͆͗ͅ
it's almost charming that Cthulhu, cuddliest and most relatable of Elders, is what you go to. and not to anything more terrible and much, much older.
[]Ride Ebrion to Dragonstone: You need to go there alone right now. You just... needed to see the Dragonmount, you needed to see the castle and the Dragonglass. And most of all... you needed to see mother. And she needed to see you.
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I mean, you can do that.

You do have two more days of sailing with which to interact with your companions, though, and there's no telling what temporary opportunities might evaporate outside of those times ... to say nothing of what additional perspectives being brought onto that experience might reveal to you.
 
Marlowe310811 said:
it's almost charming that Cthulhu, cuddliest and most relatable of Elders, is what you go to. and not to anything more terrible and much, much older.
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Hey now, lets just say that the elders that I went for only because...

Well the Drowned god okay. Thats it.

Besides my Mythos fu is a little... Scratchy at best.

At least we try and smoke the Necronomicon like a blunt with Jaime and co.
 
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Honestly, the write in feels too open ended for me to write something useful.

Usually I don't mind write ins, but I just feel at a loss. Maybe because I just feel like we should continue on our trip to Dragonstone and talking to the others around us. I just don't feel inspired to suddenly do anything different. I mean, we had a bad dream that's vaguely prophetic... okay, so... we keep doing what we were doing while digesting the new information and slowly figuring out what to do next.

There just doesn't feel like there is anything actionable right now so...
 
Elder Haman said:
Honestly, the write in feels too open ended for me to write something useful.

Usually I don't mind write ins, but I just feel at a loss. Maybe because I just feel like we should continue on our trip to Dragonstone and talking to the others around us. I just don't feel inspired to suddenly do anything different. I mean, we had a bad dream that's vaguely prophetic... okay, so... we keep doing what we were doing while digesting the new information and slowly figuring out what to do next.

There just doesn't feel like there is anything actionable right now so...
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That's fair -- I'll tweak it to be a little more guided once I'm at my laptop (and can also refer to notes on who is where and doing what rather than rely on memory)
 
The vote has been edited to be a little more guided and less open-ended, and depending on your choices here we will see what options might open up for your afternoon and evening plans for the day. To help, I'm posting the edited vote options here:




Well.

That was an experience.

It turns out that whatever that was, dream or vision, it kept you asleep for most of the morning. You'll break your fast late, and you'll … well, come to that, what will you do?

[ ] "Mornings are for coffee and contemplation." Historically you do your best thinking on your own (okay, and your most reckless, too, but even that usually works our in your favour). And, you want to take that talking raven's words, about being careful who you trust, to heart. You'll puzzle over things and chew on this, and your bacon, alone.
[ ] "I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." You have made a habit of surrounding yourself with the best and the brightest (and Asher) and any one of them on the ship with you could offer insights and perspective you would not find on your own. [Pick 1-3 of the options below, listed in order of likelihood you would trust them with this.]
-[ ] Dany
-[ ] Oberyn
-[ ] Jacaerys
-[ ] Barristan
-[ ] Asher
-[ ] Willas
-[ ] Allard gods, why would you do that?




To be clear, the order of likelihood is just that: a statement of fact. There's no malus attached to selecting a lower-ranked candidate: you can certainly choose to bring Willas into the conversation if you wish, though as Viserys you would likely be weighing the potential costs (he might think you're crazy or dangerous or both, and write home about such conclusions and his evidence for it) against the potential benefits (this definitely would distract him from courting Dany, even make him think twice about what he's contemplating marrying into, and that would be amusing as hell to watch).
 
...I am tentatively in favor of bringing Jacaerys in on this. We wanted a Maester with Magic-Specialization and we got a really good one. Let's see if he can help us with this.
 
Dany is the only one I'd talk to about this. Mainly because she might need to deal with it herself. But I don't see a pressing need to talk to any one right now, so:

[X] "Mornings are for coffee and contemplation." Historically you do your best thinking on your own (okay, and your most reckless, too, but even that usually works our in your favour). And, you want to take that talking raven's words, about being careful who you trust, to heart. You'll puzzle over things and chew on this, and your bacon, alone.
 
Magoose said:
If there is not a castle in the Westerlands known for it's service of fellow lords and smallfolk alike called Millyways... I will be very disapointed.
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...I will consider it. Might be more of a Summer Isles kinda place, I'll have to think about it.

Basically, I needed another morning/breakfast related quote to reference, and it came to me that "hey, there's this line about six impossible things. I have six potential people to hear impossible dreams. this is too good to pass up"


Edit: I've also added an Informational threadmark of the reference material I use for various things, like distances and travel times, family sigils and members, and potentially relevant to the last story post, a dictionary of High Valyrian. I wanted to be open about what my sources and inspirations were, and I particularly didn't want folks to be thinking I was just keyboard-mashing to produce High Valyrian words and sentences.
 
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[X] "Mornings are for coffee and contemplation." Historically you do your best thinking on your own (okay, and your most reckless, too, but even that usually works our in your favour). And, you want to take that talking raven's words, about being careful who you trust, to heart. You'll puzzle over things and chew on this, and your bacon, alone.
 
[X] "I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." You have made a habit of surrounding yourself with the best and the brightest (and Asher) and any one of them on the ship with you could offer insights and perspective you would not find on your own. [Pick 1-3 of the options below, listed in order of likelihood you would trust them with this.]
-[X] Dany
-[X] Oberyn
 
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[X] "I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." You have made a habit of surrounding yourself with the best and the brightest (and Asher) and any one of them on the ship with you could offer insights and perspective you would not find on your own. [Pick 1-3 of the options below, listed in order of likelihood you would trust them with this.]
-[X] Dany
-[X] Oberyn

Dany has experience with these sort of things and Oberyn knew Rhaegar so he can give potential insight.
 
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stuckunderwater said:
[ ] "I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." You have made a habit of surrounding yourself with the best and the brightest (and Asher) and any one of them on the ship with you could offer insights and perspective you would not find on your own. [Pick 1-3 of the options below, listed in order of likelihood you would trust them with this.]
-[X] Dany
-[X] Oberyn

Dany has experience with these sort of things and Oberyn knew Rhaegar so he can give potential insight.
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You need to put an X in the upper Line for the Vote to count.
 
[X] "I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." You have made a habit of surrounding yourself with the best and the brightest (and Asher) and any one of them on the ship with you could offer insights and perspective you would not find on your own. [Pick 1-3 of the options below, listed in order of likelihood you would trust them with this.]
-[X] Dany
-[X] Oberyn
 
[X] "I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." You have made a habit of surrounding yourself with the best and the brightest (and Asher) and any one of them on the ship with you could offer insights and perspective you would not find on your own. [Pick 1-3 of the options below, listed in order of likelihood you would trust them with this.]
-[X] Dany
-[X] Oberyn
 
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A Fool (Semi-Canon)
  • Apocrypha
    • A Fool:

    (Garret POV)

    You took a deep breath as the man in front of you awoke, his nacked body covered in burns and sand. "Good, good. You finally awaken after such a fucking long time. I was wondering if I had killed you, but the poison that knocked you out was… not strong enough for that. Unfortunately for you."

    The servant who had, once upon a time, cared for an aging Ser Willem and the young Targaryen Children was much older than the description you had heard once from the young prince… now king. His hair was grey, his face covered in cuts and bruises and welts. Stab scars from fights and battles adorned his body. Not of war, but of tavern fights and brawls.

    "What do you want?" The man said in broken common. He was terrified of you, after all, you know held his life in your hands.

    Out here at the edge of the Bravoosi Coast, of rocks and sand… and the smoke beyond even further, behind him to his east. Alexander and his crusade had passed through Vas Dorthrak a moon ago… And it was still burning.

    "I want lots of things. My wife, for one thing, the one thing in my life that gave me joy, that was cruelly taken away from me by men like you. Greedy men who could not do anything hard, and took the easy way out. The same men who killed her were like you. Servents who had no honor. No loyalty… no dignity in the end."

    You were going to unleash a hail of a monologue, describing the horror you would inflict on him by leaving him to die.

    But you needed to keep this… focused. Viserys wanted revenge. Not you. You needed to make sure that he learned that.

    "My master… a master you once served, wanted to repay you for your disloyalty." You took great pleasure as the servant's face morphed, first to confusion, then to recognition.

    "That dragon cunt!? He still lives!?" He was horrified, stepping back, falling backward as you pulled out Viserys… mark. A mark you were sure this… fool would remember, from the embroidered clothes he saw with them.

    "Yes… and he seeks to make his vengeance known." You threw over a bag… meat bag, like the one Viserys stole on that fateful night. "There is a week of meat in there… along with two rings and The Seven-Pointed Star.

    You saw the horror on his face, before throwing over a vial. It was a vial of… well, Oberyn didn't say, it was a vial that he assured you was the most deadly poison in his stock.

    Well, second-deadliest poison. A blasted fool only ever gave the best to the King. A Good one would allow his most trusted thief to have it.

    "That is a poison that will kill you in about three heartbeats." You said as you walked towards your waiting horse.

    You then mounted it. "I give you two days before you contemplate drinking it."

    "Where did you take me!" the man demanded.

    "Death." You replied with a single word, and you then rode away.

    Maybe he would be clever like Viserys. Maybe…

    But you held little hope for this man. He was a traitor.

    And the gods never forgave a man like him.

    AN: Hey @Marlowe310811

    Here is an omake.

    You know I was thinking about Arianne talking to Viserys about spicing up their sex life...

    maybe I'll do that next.
     
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    • I mean i have my own ideas in my own quest, but Marlowe is running the show now.

    I want to know what he thinks.
     
    Magoose said:
    A Fool
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    Never a bad thing to see the off-camera moments get fleshed out a little bit!
    Magoose said:
    You know I was thinking about Arianne talking to Viserys about spicing up their sex life...

    maybe I'll do that next.
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    Well, it would mostly be hypothetical (and/or largely teasing foreplay) at this point; both of them are still mindful of the Grand Maester's advice on the timetable for, erm, 'further familial expansion'. I'll also admit that in Part I of the interlude I was somewhat implying, perhaps too subtly, that Tyene Sand has a slowly growing presence in the Royals' private lives, and that's a tiny dangling plotthread that can get tugged on (or not) in the future.

    Out-of-narrative, I will express that I'm not especially keen on pushing Rule Six's boundaries, so any in-narrative discussions of sexuality should be mindful of that. I'm not gonna say "no" flat-out, but if I need to apply the Mature Content tag to the thread I am gonna say "I need to know that before anything gets posted."
    Magoose said:
    Hey @Marlowe310811 I have a question:

    i did some digging and realized one thing.

    What happened to Rhaegar's body?
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    Alexander Sturnn said:
    Considering how Bobby B turned out in this timeline, it would not surprise me if he had his body stripped naked and tossed in some ditch so that the Wolves and Crows could feast on it.
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    WOG is that he was cremated, in the Targaryen tradition [relevant SSM, for reference] and the divergence point for this timeline came well afterwards of the Battle of the Trident. Canon is more or less canon here, up to the day Rhaella dies. From that point onward, it is (at times, literally) a roll of the dice on whether or not events and individuals hold course.

    While on the subject of Rhaegar's remains, though, it is also worth remembering that Robert was wounded (not grievously so, but enough that he didn't ride for KL with Ned) and Ned had other things to worry about, so Jon Arryn would have been handling minutiae like that. While Jon had his issues with Aerys, he (as did most of the nobility) liked or at least respected Rhaegar, so he would not have tolerated any Joffrey-esque shenanigans at that time with the prince's remains.

    The broken man that Jon Arryn became was not the Jon Arryn present at the Trident; the first fractures came later, with the childrens' corpses and Robert's reaction to that.




    I've been chipping away at a 'Prince of the City' update, and I was hoping to pick up a couple more votes before moving on, but the present tally looks fairly stable; I'll give it another 24 hours before calling it, and then we'll see which update decides to cooperate faster.
     
    Marlowe310811 said:
    Never a bad thing to see the off-camera moments get fleshed out a little bit!
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    I was going to do a Jaime omake with him, Blackfish and Barry killing bandits, but after today's events where I had to fight a fire, I'm completely out of whack and am in dire need of some rest.
    Marlowe310811 said:
    Well, it would mostly be hypothetical (and/or largely teasing foreplay) at this point; both of them are still mindful of the Grand Maester's advice on the timetable for, erm, 'further familial expansion'. I'll also admit that in Part I of the interlude I was somewhat implying, perhaps too subtly, that Tyene Sand has a slowly growing presence in the Royals' private lives, and that's a tiny dangling plotthread that can get tugged on (or not) in the future.

    Out-of-narrative, I will express that I'm not especially keen on pushing Rule Six's boundaries, so any in-narrative discussions of sexuality should be mindful of that. I'm not gonna say "no" flat-out, but if I need to apply the Mature Content tag to the thread I am gonna say "I need to know that before anything gets posted."
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    I was just thinking of them just talking about it, nothing like foreplay or anything like that.

    I'll PM you about that when I get that finished.
    Marlowe310811 said:
    I've been chipping away at a 'Prince of the City' update, and I was hoping to pick up a couple more votes before moving on, but the present tally looks fairly stable; I'll give it another 24 hours before calling it, and then we'll see which update decides to cooperate faster.
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    Hooray, more updates!
     
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