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Final day of your matches begins.

You were woken up early. Your father and your elder brother, both making sure that you ate your breakfast and did your stretches and warmups properly before Ser Hector finally came to pick you up.

The towers, the rows of seats and even the standing spots at the bottom were filled to brim with people from all walks of life, highborn, lowborn, peasant and citydweller alike all were present. Today the preliminary games would end and the tourney would well and truly get underway as knight would face knight on foot and horseback.
Everyone was wearing their best clothes.

Ser Hector was all smiles, he was practically glowing.
"This is it Arthur. All eyes are on you. You're the underdog, the one nobody expected to make it this far. Fight hard, strike true and put on a show that they'll tell their grandchildren about."

The Streamers and banners waved in the whispering wind as the contestants drew straws for the contests and entered the in front of the audience, announced by the sound of horn, pipe and drum.

Like Gladiators, the squires approached the arena, you among them.
At your side of the ring, familiar faces greeted you. Arys Oakheart and Lyn Corbray were assigned to your team.
"It seems we fight side by side again."
"Well met Arthur! The Seven are with us this day. Some of the toughest squires in the lists are on our team so we can put up really tough guys on the flanks."
He waves towards the squire with a red castle on his shield.
"Recognize him?"
"He was against us on the last match!"
"Yes, he was. Judges nominated him as the best contestant on the enemy team and Boremund Harlaw was dropped out instead."
He turns his face towards the opposing team
"Speaking of whom..."
Harras Harlaw was on the opposing team as well as... Benjen Stark?
"I doubt he is happy about that."
"It's not just him. Lyn is eager to make up for his last defeat."
"Can you introduce me to the ones I've not met?"
"Of course, this is Walder Willum, he definitely impressed in on the lists."
"Always a pleasure to meet another Reachman."
"Likewise."
"Then there's Gyles Blacktyde, an ironborn."
He nods at you as you move on.
"Next, Gilbert Farring, hailing from the Crownlands."
"How do you do?"
He gives you two thumbs up.
"Pumped and ready to fight."
Arys slaps him on the back
"Good! Now let's go over the formation again."

>Arys Oakheart wishes to place you on the center and the more experienced knights on the flanks.
>Do you protest?
>Y/N

>>2301191
The center seems fine again. There's already too much notice of us, grandstanding now probably gets us a forced promotion and ticket in the lists.

Do our part in the center, avail ourselves well. If the team wins or losses, no great matter. The bets for later are the real prize. We don't want to mess things up too much before we cash in.

>>2301198
There's no way to force you to the tournament lists unless the king specifically requests it, but that would be highly unorthodox.
Technically speaking nobody could force you to take the oaths of knighthood either.

The notion of forcing a 13 (almost 14) year old kid to fight against seasoned Knights is so outlandish that I'd need a good reason to pull a stunt like that.

>>2301305
Considering a King's Guard just raised that as a hypothetical means I'm not the only one thinking it. While we could technically refuse, turning down the King's whim would be a rather socially bad maneuver, especially in a public atmosphere like the greatest tourney in memory.

>>2301191
>N

>>2301305
>N

>>2301191
>N

>>2301191
>N

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gimme 4d6

Rolled 6, 6, 1, 6 = 19 (4d6)

>>2301527
Thundercats HOOOOOOOOOOO

>>2301527
wew

Rolled 3, 4, 2, 6 = 15 (4d6)

>>2301527

Rolled 4, 6, 5, 1 = 16 (4d6)

>>2301527
Our tream seems better overall I have to say.

>>2301580
You lucked out on the rolls I pulled last thread.

>>2301616
Is benjen stark still using bo3?

>>2301530
damn satan. calm down

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>>2301530
Hot-damn!

>>2301530
Omar Shindersu

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>>2301530

>>2301635
Nah, I think that the bo3 system breaks normal system to the point that it doesn't really make sense unless there's foul play involved.

Only reason why I let you hang on to it is because you've had a couple of lifetimes under your belt.
Bo3 system starts making more and more sense with each lifetime as an edge for you.

In exchange for that though, I think I will no longer let you have fate points as a freebie, save through a thematically appropriate route.

As I use this system more, I will be able to generate NPCs with stats that make more sense. Right now I've been using the stats on the rulebooks as a reference model.

I will likely throw a fair bit of more bonus dice at characters to reflect their experience, even though the degree of their skills might not necessarily amount to as much.

>>2301530
Very nice

>>2301922
Just found this quest and I gotta say that its top notch so far, keep it up man.

>also very salty about losing eddard

we just GOTTA keep the nickname "Teach"

>>2302808
Glad you like it.
Rules are still a work in progress as the ASOIAF RPG system was not exactly designed for this.

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"Me and Redfort will take the left flank, Willum and Corbray take the right. Tallon, Farring and Blacktyde on the center. Everyone alright with this?"
"No complaints here."
Everyone seemed to be fine with these arrangements or the simply didn't want to start drama so close to the finals.

The Clarion's call demanded the squires to do battle and so the teams entered the field.
Battle lines were drawn and in front of you stood facing a familiar face. Benjen Stark had been given the center.

With the contestants lined up, each put their helmet on and looked to the host's gallery where stood the Queen of Love and Beauty, Lady Lorenah Whent alongside with her defenders. As was tradition, the queen of love and beauty had the honor of signaling the start of the fights by tossing a handkerchief to the ground.
For a contestant to strike before it struck the ground would be considered an act most unchivalrous and uncouth to such a degree that the punishment for such an action would be a public humiliation, most often involving having the offender stripped naked and being pelted with rotten fruit.

As her handkerchief hit the ground, the fighters gripped steel and the contest to display one's worth in the field of battle began to strike one-another with such eagerness that unlike with previous matches, you weren't the first or even the second to strike out at their foeman.

>Time to choose your actions once again!
>You have either two lesser actions or one greater action.

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Here's the list of combat actions to perform once again as copied from the rulebook.
>Buying time: Dodge
>Try to outskill: Disarm (greater action)
>Try to overwhelm with strength: Knockdown (can attempt twice due to it being a lesser action)
>Careful hit: Aim and Standard attack
>Defensive attack: Cautious Attack and standard attack
>Aggressive: Two standard attacks.
>More Aggressive: Reckless attack
>Ridiculously Aggressive: Take a Fatigue point, make three standard attacks
>Stupidly Aggressive: Take Two fatigue points, make two reckless attacks.

Just in case you weren't aware, damage you sustain in this match carries over to the next and final one where it's every man for himself.

You get to make one endurance check between the matches to catch your breath and recover health, but that's it.

>>2304527
Try to outskill: Disarm (greater action)

Try to outskill: Disarm (greater action)

>>2304527
>Try to outskill: Disarm (greater action)

>>2304622
>>2304735
>>2304745
Give me 5d6 then.

Rolled 4, 4, 2, 6, 2 = 18 (5d6)

>>2304770

Rolled 5, 2, 2, 3, 4 = 16 (5d6)

>>2304770
Ive got a good feeling about this roll.

Rolled 6, 5, 4, 4, 2 = 21 (5d6)

>>2304770

>>2304835
>tfw this picture no longer makes any sense due to 4chan extensions

>>2304846
im a brainlet so i dont have any extensions

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>You rolled 19
>DC 15

As the battle begun, the squires struck at one-another with all the ferocity they could muster, Benjen Stark was no different. Still, though he was more disciplined than Arys Oakheart or Lyn Corbray, he was still green.

His blow was honest, by the book and orthodox and most importantly predictable. You've seen this one a hundred times, not just during your time as a page, but also what rudimentary fighting training you had to undergo in the Isles.
Needless to say, two lifetimes was enough to teach you how to defend against that.

You seized the initiative and struck pre-emptively, sending his blade flying through the air. Then, something strange happened.

>Your opponent used a destiny point.

What the fuck was that?

You're not sure if it was just something you imagined, whether it was a Deja vu sensation or what, but the blade ended in his hands again as if time had momentarily rewound itself. Surprised, finding yourself in the position you just were, you try again to repeat the feat you thought you just performed, however...

Same roll, but you now have -1D

>Give me 5d6
>2 lowest dice will be discarded.

Rolled 1, 4, 6, 4, 3 = 18 (5d6)

>>2304925

Rolled 6, 3, 2, 6, 3 = 20 (5d6)

>>2304925

Rolled 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 3, 4, 5, 3, 6, 3, 1, 1, 5, 2, 4, 3, 4, 6, 1, 4, 3, 5 = 85 (25d6)

Rolling A LOT of dice for the other guys. Fucking double attacks man.

Rolled 2, 2, 5, 1, 6, 1, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 2, 5, 3, 2, 6, 2, 6, 1, 4, 5, 1, 4 = 83 (25d6)

Rolled 6, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 4, 5, 5, 5, 3, 5, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 6, 6, 6, 2, 6, 5 = 96 (25d6)

Rolled 1, 2, 3, 2, 6, 1, 3, 5, 2, 1, 1, 5, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 5, 4, 2 = 61 (25d6)

Rolled 3, 1, 6, 6, 1 = 17 (5d6)

Yes, that was just 105 fucking dice I get to go through

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>15! You succeed barely

By the skin of your teeth you manage to react in time whilst still revovering from that scenario.
You push your body to repeat the movements, though for some reason it felt nowhere near as fast as you were imagining it before.

After the blade flew to the ground, you look around you, freaked out. Nobody else seems to have noticed that little episode that just happened. Whatever the fuck that episode was, you'd rather not have another when your life is on the line.
It was like waking up from a flashback, only to realize that it wasn't happening.
It's this sort of shit that makes you question your grip on sanity.

With his blade on the ground, the Stark quickly yielded and you looked at the field, still shaking off that strange feeling of Deja Vu.

The rest of the squires are still clanging at eachother relatively ineffectually, Which means the number of fucking dice still isn't going down both rather evenly matched or merely conserving their strength. However, it's 7 on 6 now with Benjen disarmed.

On your right stands Gyles Blacktyde, fighting against a reachman.
On your left side stands Gilbert Farring, fighting against a dornishman.

What do you do?

>Choose combat actions and choose which side to aid.

>>2304987
Try to outskill: Disarm (greater action)
Gilbert Farring

>>2304987
Attack the Dornish fellow fighting Gilbert.
Use 2 Cautious attacks (we really only need to give him another combatant to think about so (hopefully) Gilbert can take advantage of our distraction).

>>2305002
I assume you mean we should assist Gilbert Farring, since he's on our side?

>>2304987
left
standard attack x2

>>2305008
aye
should have specified, sorry anon

>>2305005
This

>>2305005
Defensive bonuses from cautious attacks do not stack.

>>2304987
>On your left side stands Gilbert Farring, fighting against a dornishman.
>First he Distract
>Then he attac

>>2305005
Also, if you want to actually give him better rolls or negative dice to the opponent, distract and assist are different actions.

>>2305005
Support

>>2304987
Can we aid our allies on each side? I.e.
>Assist ally on our left (Lesser Action)
>Assist ally on our right (Lesser Action)

>>2305297
>>2305012
>>2305005
Why use two Cautious attacks? He is not only not attacking us but we are being more defensive to do less damage. If you want to help then use one cautious attack and assist him. Or Distract and assist him.

>>2305341
I’m guessing we don’t want to be exhausted for the last match

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>>2305018
Did not realise this, sorry. GIF related.

Changing my vote from >>2305005

To
>Attack the Dornish fellow fighting Gilbert.
>Use 'Distract' on Jonny Dornish, hope Gilbert takes advantage.

>>2304987
Outfucking skilled Benny!

Press the left, two standard attacks!

>Disarm
>>2305002

>Standard attacks
>>2305009

>Distract, Attack
>>2305022
>>2305399

>Two cautious attacks
>>2305012
>>2305297


I'm gonna take it that you don't wanna do two cautious attacks since whilst technically a draw, two cautious attacks don't make a whole lot of sense and sort of want to keep this fight rolling without having to wait for a consensus and for people to figure out what they wanna replace the second cautious attack with.

>4D for cunning and 4B1 for fighting
Give me 9d6

Rolled 1, 5, 6, 3, 1, 4, 3, 4, 2 = 29 (9d6)

>>2306523

Rolled 6, 3, 1, 1, 2, 6, 5, 5, 2 = 31 (9d6)

>>2306528
time for nine ones tho
what would nine ones get us? Ded?!?!?!?

Rolled 6, 2, 3, 3, 3, 1, 4, 3, 5 = 30 (9d6)

>>2306523
Rolling.

When the book events start rolling in, who do we wanna back?
I think it would be hilarious that we act when Ned has his failed coup, we have our own successful one and take over the whole Capital.

>>2306702
And then promptly get raped by Tywin. Also, I dont see how we could get enough armsmen in there without notice.

Now, if we could make some heavy armor and blunderbusses we could even the field immensly if we strut in with Ned. No shitty chainmail is going to stop a point-blank blast from a decent blunderbuss. Make it easy to reload and we could potentially get 2 shots off before they realize whats going on. Make Ned secure his own quarters and we could have a successful coup.

Or just make the damn flying ship and bomb everyone with wildfire and hold the city ransom, then fuck off to help Danny.

>>2306722
The Capital is the biggest population center in Westeros. If we can get enough guns and popularity to pull off mass levies, we can go on full napoleon.

Jokes aside, I'd probably support either Renly, Stannis or Robb with Tyrion getting an honorable mention.

>>2306744
No I meant we need to get enough men in there to pull the coup off in the first place and some 2000 guys with magick sticks and armor is gonna be sketch as fuck.

But yeah, going Prussian on them is a great plan. Especially if we have some airships to scout or even bombard the enemy (not as much for damage as for the morale effect of randomly getting burned alive deep in your own lines.

>>2306773
As King after Aerys? Probably Robert and try to get on his good side with some tech sales/implementation.

>>2306788
Should we tell his friends about the incest stuff then?

>>2306832
Lannister incest? Meh, we are a ways off from that and it doesnt matter much to us right now.

Or do you mean something else?

>>2306722 Danny hasn't even been born yet

>>2306848
I realize that, war not having started yet and all. Youll also realize we have no giant airship right now.

It was a far-off suggestion. Probably never going to have a giant skyship either. A more realistic thing to do would be trying to improve our own hold a bit with the support from our family (assuming we survive the war intact) with better farming techniques, a windmill and tools and so forth. Ideally better sanitation and medicine as well. Seeing as we are on good terms with our father and the heir they should give us a chance to do it. Then make a distillery after the war and sell booze to fund our workshop and lab work so we can make actual guns with blastcaps and weather-proof mechanisms.

>>2306854
Then again, war has its own rewards. Anyone know of anything we could do that would put us ahead? Anything we could make/sell? Where to fight? Maybe play assassin in a battle with our rifle?

>>2306856
We could make a sweet warship with cannons for the Greyjoy rebellion. We can even navigate through the open sea to take them from behind if we want.

Bring back the Long Night

>>2306882
Now, if we can make a big enough war ship and equip it with a few big cannons and some grapeshot ones, slap a decent steam engine in the back and remove the sail we could really do some "Long Night" business. Paint it black and watch the legend grow.

Stories spreading of a ghost ship, black as the night and without sails or oars floating through the water, belching smoke until the wrath of heathen gods splits enemy ships asunder and blasts sailors with unearthly balls of fire. People would run away as soon as they saw the thing. Especially with a force as disorganized as the Iron Islanders.

If we want a huge airship though, we might need to do research on materials that don't exist on our world.

Perhaps through alchemy we can create materials that allow us to take shortcuts with technology. We should look for alchemists running from Jaime's witch hunt.

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>>2306934
While nice, and we definitely should hunt down any books we find, it is again far off. Personally, I dont see a reason to imagine things much past the current war, since we lack any means to undertake the bigger project right now. When we do get some finances though...

Making an airplane is as complicated as making the engine, just saying. And being a wildfire baron is just a step from that.

Rolled 3, 6, 5, 1, 1, 4, 4, 5, 2, 4, 1, 6, 1, 4, 1, 6, 3, 5, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4 = 84 (25d6)

Rolled 1, 6, 5, 3, 2, 4, 4, 1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 4, 5, 2, 4, 4, 1, 5, 4, 5, 1, 6, 4 = 84 (25d6)

Rolled 2, 4, 5, 2, 4, 4, 6, 4, 3, 5, 3, 6, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 6, 5, 1, 3 = 76 (25d6)

Rolled 2, 6, 1, 6, 1, 5, 6, 6, 6, 3, 5, 2, 3, 3, 1, 5, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 3, 5, 2, 6 = 87 (25d6)

>>2306998
Aside from the ludicrous amount of dice, could we make laudanum with our current distilling techniques and some poppy? I assume the plant is common enough.

Rolled 6, 2, 2, 6, 6 = 22 (5d6)

>>2307005
Sure, you can probably create a tincture as long as it's thematically appropriate.

Your character has not yet exactly shown much interest towards that sort of thing, however if you do end up studying creation of medicine, poisons or simply narcotics in the Citadel, I'll definitely consider it thematically appropriate for you to roll healing for developing something like that.

That's actually what much of the stuff relating to your learned professions leans to. The fact that you spent quite a lot of time sailing around means it would be reasonable for you to be interested to attempt to pick up ship design at some point.

>>2307033
So any updates maybe? Pretty please.

>>2307063
I'm writing up a big nothing burger.
Turns out when armor negates all damage below 2 degrees of success with these guys, it takes a while for them to kill eachother.

>>2307082
Im assuming that our rifle will have no such problem unless we are doing really long range shooting? What about a pistol up close? What actually is the best way to deal with a full plate knight up close? Bigass flintlock pistol? Blunderbuss with deerslug?

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>Distract roll 11
>DC 12
>Fail – Enemy combat defense remains unaffected

You decide to try and help Gilbert Farring to deal with the Dornishman.
Quick! what's the most distracting thing I can come up with?
*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*
Fuck that noise.

You decide to resort to the second most distracting thing you know.
Violence
You swing your sword at the opponent with enough force that he definitely noticed you.
"Oi! It's two on one now you git!"

>Standard attack
>18, 2 degrees of success
>4 x 2 – 5 = 3 damage done to your foe

Followed by your strike, he tries his best to return your blows, but you manage to make them glance off from your armor. As he was focused on you, Gilbert Farring tries to strike at him as well, but he keeps his guard up, managing to deflect his blows.

Meanwhile on the other side of the field, Harras Harlaw is having a bad time, being pounded by Horton Redfort and seems to definitely have an edge.

Everyone else just flops their swords around like little girls apparently.[/spoilers.]

Alright, next turn.
Gimme some actions.

>>2307103
How does first blood work? Is there a specific HP value we need to hit or is it more contextual?

Either way, attack the git infront of us and free both of us up to kick their shit in from the side.

>2x Standard attack

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>>2307091
Double barreled shotgun or a volley gun presuming you just want them to stop existing within the same turn you point your gun at them.

Of course, in terms of self-defense when you don't know what you're getting into, nothing beats pistols because you can learn quick draw, which allows drawing of weapons to be a free action.
Incidentally, dropping weapons is also a free actions.

If you load yourself up like a pirate and carry multiple pistols, as long as you are quick enough to win the initiative, with +1 bonus from high quality powder, you can have pistols which each ignore 5 armor and do 5 damage.
Dual wielding pistols means 10 damage to the face of anyone who is wearing anything from chainmail downwards, which is a whole lot of people.

>>2307112
First blood means first wound.
You technically speaking gain a wound when your health goes to 0 and any hit you suffer afterwards gives you more wounds till you die, but there are ways of dealing wounds without any hp damage as well in the system as one gains higher mastery in weapons.

You can only suffer number of wounds equivalent to your endurance rank until you straight up drop dead, however, since this is just a squire's tourney, I'm mitigating all harm that the contestants suffer.

Going 0 health represents in this case that the characters get pounded to the dirt, yield or otherwise get thrown off the fight by whatever is thematically appropriate.

I'm honestly thinking of having penetrating bullets all give just straight up wound in addition to the hp damage.

Rolled 3, 4, 2, 6, 1, 6, 2, 2, 2, 5, 1, 3, 3, 6, 2, 1, 6, 3, 4, 6, 6, 4, 4, 6, 6 = 94 (25d6)

Some more dice

>>2307123
So we actually have 3x9 HP since to kill us the enemy would have to drop us from 9 to 0 3 times? And also, the only real way for us to instagib a knight is either a double.barrel beast or some other big barrel? No way for a gun that doesnt blow our wrist off? This is mechanically speaking. I assume we can crit any peon in the eyeslit.

Rolled 6, 5, 5, 4, 2, 4, 1, 5, 2, 5, 2, 6, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 3, 1, 2, 5, 5, 1, 6, 6 = 99 (25d6)

>>2307124
I can tell from those consecutive sices that someone is gonna have a bad day.

>>2307126
Wrong. Taking a wound negates damage.
Mechanically speaking, hitting 0 hp means death but practically it means a wound.

You die from 3 wounds.
Also, yea

Pretty much everyone shot by a gun tends to die eventually without a competent surgeon. Stopping Power of your gun determines how quickly you can make that happen.

If you put a hole on someone and run away, unless they pull some serious endurance rolls, they die.

Rolled 1, 2, 3, 6, 2, 1, 4, 4, 2, 5, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 6, 5, 1, 5, 2, 2, 4, 6, 5, 4 = 76 (25d6)

Rolled 2, 1, 6, 3, 3, 4, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 6, 6, 5, 1, 1, 6, 3, 4, 2, 5, 1, 6, 2 = 91 (25d6)

Get sufficiently high rolls on marksmanship and I'll houserule it as headshot or a heartshot.

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Anyhow
>Combat actions go

Rolled 1, 4, 1, 5 = 11 (4d6)

>>2307140
4d6, right?

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Rolled 4, 6, 4, 6 = 20 (4d6)

>>2307148
May the mother have mercy.

>>2307150
Really? Come on

>>2307140

>Try to outskill: Disarm (greater action)
Should be easier to get the dornishman since he'll be unlikely to burn a fate and hes distracted

>>2307162
supporting this

>>2307162
This seems like a good idea. Plus we're doing a good job at disarming people

>>2307140
>Target Dornishman again.
> x2 Standard attacks.
If in doubt, go with what you know.

Fuck me man.
Upon further inspection, Disarm don't actually work that easy, you gotta get 2 degrees of success, not just beat the passive fighting+bonus dices

Ok, so the DC to succeed a disarm shouldn't have been 15, it should have been 20.

Sorry guys, I am still learning the ASOIAF RPG system myself.
Do you still want to try to disarm?

>>2307200
I'm not taking any successes you had thus far from you due to my mistakes.

>>2307200
Nah Ill back >>2307177
instead

>>2307200
I'm also gonna change it to >>2307177

>>2307203
Back this instead>>2307177

Standard attacks it is.
Sorry again for the mixup.

Give me 10d6

Rolled 2, 5, 2, 6, 3, 3, 2, 3, 6, 6 = 38 (10d6)

>>2307243

Rolled 3, 5, 3, 2, 1, 5, 5, 5, 2, 1 = 32 (10d6)

>>2307243

Rolled 6, 6, 3, 2, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5 = 42 (10d6)

>>2307243

>>2307422
That's a bit more like it!

>>2307422
Huzzah! Bash those miscreants!

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Would you like to toggle damage reports on?

>Y/N

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>>2307497

>>2307497
Sure unless itll slow the quest heavily

I honestly have no idea how yhis system works or what all these rolls are supposed to do, I'm just here for the story.

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>Standard attack
>Standard attack

You switch out to full on offensive, trying to drive the Dornishman back, raining blow after blow with remarkable skill, the only lacking part in your blows being the power of a full grown man which the rest of the contestants seem to hold in spades.

Despite your blows raining upon him, the Dornishman seems to be able to soldier through, keeping his defenses up well enough that while you were piling on the hurt, you could not break anything too important.

He seemed to be focusing almost entirely on Gilbert Farring, clearly seeing him the bigger threat, which considering the size difference between you two was no surprise. The Dornishman was not the only one who had the grit to soldier through the blows of his foeman. Gilbert clearly must have noticed him waver and decided to make a trade.
Blow for a blow. Both got a good hit on at one another, but only one remained standing.
Whilst Gilbert's bicep took a nasty hit, the Dornishman had a knee on the ground.
Two down, five more to go.

I'm going to just start including the damage report in order to help you keep better track of the battle. Don't worry. If you don't like it, battle reports can be turned off.

>19 and 18, 2 degrees of success on both counts
>Each blow deals 3 damage to your opponent

>Attacks by your team:
>Arys Oakheart uses an aimed attack and rolls 20! He does 5 damage with his blow.
>Horton Redfort uses an aimed attack and rolls 15! His attack bounces off enemy armor
>Gilbert Farring uses two standard attacks rolling 17 and 13! One of his attacks does 5 damage while the other bounces off enemy armor.
>Gyles Blacktyde uses two standard attacks rolling 16 and 15! One of his attacks does 5 damage while the other bounces off enemy armor.
>Walder Willum uses an aimed attack and rolls 12! His attack bounces off enemy armor.
>Lyn Corbray uses and aimed attack and rolls 14! His attack bounces off enemy armor.

>Attacks by enemy team
Riverlands Squire uses two standard attacks rolling 16 and 14! One of his attacks does 5 damage while the other bounces off armor.
Harras Harlaw uses an aimed attack and rolls 15! His attack bounces off enemy armor.
Dornish Squire uses two standard attacks rolling 17 and 11! One of his attacks does 5 damage whilst the other bounces off enemy armor!
Reach squire uses two standard attacks rolling 12 and 14! Both his attacks bounce of armor.
Iron Islands squire uses two aimed attacks rolling 16 and 18! dealing 5 damage with each blow!

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Here's also a visual representation
No more updates today.

You may help support the right side or try and help the left side to keep the center rolling

>Choose your destiny
>Right
>Left (One lesser action will be spent on moving)

Choose combat actions too if you would

>>2307544
Right
Distract
Standard attack

>>2307544
Right
2 standard attacks

>>2307571
This

>>2307544
>Right
Assist
standerad atrtack

>>2307571
Triple that.

>>2307550
Next update when? Also, how many squires will eventually face off?

>>2306854
btw, you can't exactly do much work on improving farming techniques when the world's ecosystem is completely alien to you as it works despite the stupidly long seasons and you never lived on a farm.
Windmills, metal tools and ploughs are already in use where you live.

>>2307597
Tomorrow and it will be 14 people each fighting for themselves.

>>2307670
Seeing as we can at the very least improve crop rotation techniques - albeit with some plant testing - and be the first dude to invent the horse-drawn seeder we could innovate quite a bit. Also, with selective breeding we can make better crops (something that was done in the middle ages, however wasnt improved until the advent of real biology). I realize there will be no gargantuan improvement buut if we can double the production of a single farmer with a combination of better tools and techniques not only will we get a green light for further tinkering from our family, we will also get mad props for being a genius knight.

Hopefully...

>>2307681
Awaiting eagerly, btw, you live in Europe or should I be prepared to do long nights?

>>2307739
Yes

>>2307567
>Right.
>Disarm.
We can't rely on brute force here, we must try to out-skill our opponents.

Rolled 5, 1, 4, 3, 1, 5, 5, 2, 5, 3 = 34 (10d6)

>>2307243
https://youtu.be/KxGRhd_iWuE never give up

Ooh, is this a GOT quest where we are a Gun Merchant or something? That seems fun as hell.

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>>2308333
Not yet.
Right now we're just a squire (although we do have a gun).
Certainly we might want to start producing & selling more guns in the future, though.

>>2308385
Did we invent it? Whats the context

>>2308432 isekai is the context we build it our self using out of World Knowledge this is actually our second time getting reincarnated into this world

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>>2308432
Basically what >>2308619
said; we were re-incarnated into Westeros having lived a life in the real world.
We had some engineering knowledge, so now we're applying that to build guns & such.

>>2308333
It is an isekai quest based largely on a variant of the ASOIAF world in which few things are tweaked.

Essentially, the world has huge problems progressing technologically and concept of nation states hasn't even well and truly developed yet, the Seven Kingdoms being more closely resembling to medieval league of feudal monarchs with one above all than an actual unified nation.

Nearly all forms of technology and learning in the world are monopolized regionally by one guild or another with Maesters being essentially the only organization that works towards equalizing the technological disparities in Westeros, but being quite few in number.
Maesters themselves do not really develope technology themselves, but rather are the preservers of it which brings us to the next big problem in this world.

Rome does not exist. Instead you have Valyria, a mystical nation built on blood and sorcery. Rather than having to undergo long periods of adaptation as a society to form into a nation which thrives bound within the laws of nature, their legacy was built on relying on dragons, sorcery and copious amounts of blood sacrifice.

Knowledge and discoveries made by such a nation are quite worthless in a world where magic as a force is dying.
As they never had much need for developing philosophy, statescraft or other more mundane forms of learning, they did not leave the same sort of cultural and technological foundation as Rome, Greece and other great nations of antiquity.

Also, give me that 10d6. I'll write up an update when i get back home

Rolled 6, 2, 5, 6, 2, 6, 4, 5, 3, 2 = 41 (10d6)

>>2309126

Rolled 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 = 10 (10d1)

We should send out peasant proxies to sell Vuvuzelas at tourneys of people we don't like.

Rolled 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 1, 4, 6, 1 = 31 (10d6)

>>2309126


>>2309246
Nice try

Rolled 4, 6, 6, 1, 5, 5, 3, 6, 5, 5 = 46 (10d6)

>>2309126

>>2309438
Well, somebody is gonna have a bad day.

Got home early. Gonna take a nap and continue this then.

Also, further regarding to Agricultural improvements, Reach is possibly THE worst place for that.
It's the most well developed region, the best crops already grow there, so even potatoes wouldn't have that huge an effect.
Inventing a seed drill would be doable, but it's entirely likely that considering the nature of the invention, Maesters may have records of it, but it's just not really caught on save in few areas.

After all, the most common tech in Westeros is the stuff that requires the least in terms of maintenance and infrastructure to manufacture.

>>2309714
Seeing as the horse-drawn seed drill can cut down on farming time drastically (especially if there are any heavy horse breeds around) the amount of land a single farmer can keep running increases by quite a bit. Especially in the reach where the problem is not soil quality but work efficiency. If the seed drill brought on a agricultural revolution IRL, why not westeros on a smaller scale? Besides, we really only need a few machines for our own lands.

>>2309776
It wasn't just the seed drill that caused an agricultural revolution.
All the crops from the new world were introduced more or less in the same time as seed drills started popping up.
You also don't have a supply of an educated workforce required for that sort of crap as literacy rates tended to get higher during renaissance as well.
In the rural regions, you have such poor literacy rates that even the ruling knights and lords know not how to read. This is especially bad in the North.

Without the means to construct and maintain such equipment on your own nor the logistical means to supply them to those who want them when they want them at reasonable rates, all that the seed drills are going to remain is a newfangled invention as the invention cannot and will not spread due to the lack of specialists who know how to make it even if you provided them the designs for it.

It's an expensive tool which requires metal parts made by major cities to function. This may make it a poor investment depending on the logistical concerns if the local blacksmiths cannot make it and will have problems repairing it.

>>2309789
>you have such poor literacy rates that even some of the ruling knights and
fixed

Also, due to the Maester's oaths, they have like 0 incentive to ever utilize their knowledge for the betterment of the lands, just using their education to help suck up to their lords.

Unlike the Monastic Orders in Europe which had access to both education, lands and international connections, no Maester can ever own any lands, inherit or have any children to pass their learning and properties to.
All they can do is suck up to the lord for coin and sire bastards.

>>2309791
So us building a few drills to be used among the peasants of our family fief (in the hands of a few trained servants) is either a) too difficult for us or b) would not bring any real results?

We go spelunking in Oldtown libraries and making booze then.

Rolled 5, 3, 5, 6, 5, 6, 6, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 6, 1, 6, 2, 1, 4, 5, 3, 3, 4, 3, 6, 3 = 98 (25d6)

The Stagnation of the World of Ice and Fire is both a blessing and a curse for you.

On one hand, you will have huge problems ever getting the gears of society turning again.

On the other hand, you can pretty much freely use guns and even if someone stole the recipe of gunpowder from you, the repercussions from that would merely extend to a formation of a new fireworker's guild that sells the powder, provided the person who took your recipe had the know-how, money, connections and daring required to actually organize, fund and start such an operation.

Even if you went and gave instructions personally to the Master Smiths and Maesters of the king and every major lord, it'd take generations and several wars until gunpowder troops would begin showing up in greater numbers than the more traditional units.

Rolled 3, 5, 3, 6, 3, 3, 6, 6, 1, 4, 5, 3, 6, 6, 2, 5, 4, 3, 3, 1, 5, 4, 2, 4, 2 = 95 (25d6)

>>2309795
Building drills would be useful to the ones using them, but don't expect them to spread on it's own.
If technology did spread naturally on the World of Ice and Fire, Westeros wouldn't still be stuck in nearly the same tech level as they were when Andals invaded.

If they simply lacked the materials, but their society was still a functional one, they'd have refined what skills they did have to an artform, making elaborate constructs from wood, metal and whatever else natural resources they had available to them but they didn't.
My explanation to that is that the society itself is organized in such a manner that it doesn't generally speaking reward education as much as martial prowess.
It's an inherently dysfunctional, dead end society.

Granted, Harren the Black did make a shitload of innovations in the field of Masonry as Harrenhal should by all rights collapse under it's own weight, but it didn't.
His reward was getting burned alive by Dragonfire.

Targaryens did manage various achievements on their own, creating an unified currency and expanding the road network in Westeros. Still, in terms of technology, the city-states seem to be at a higher level than Westeros on various fields, but Westeros does seem to have rather abundant resources.

>>2309807
No no, I dont mean we spread the stuff around and I can see why the logistics of something like a brand product this complex is a nightmare in Westeros.

What I want to know is whether the seed drill would actually be a sizeable improvement for our farmers. Jut the farmers in our fief so we could make more money for the family and they would let us tinker more. Its more a proof of concept thing to get us some street cred and free hands with further tinkering at home (if we decide to stay).

So essentially, could we markedly improve the productiveness of our family peons in a few months with better farming techniques and some seed drills for starters?

>>2309818
To a degree. It'd give them more free time for sure, which they could use for other menial tasks.
Ultimately, it just puts some fieldhands out of work which means they don't need to pay them and can have them do some other stuff.
It's one of those savings that just adds up when you're implementing it on a national scale.

Sure, a couple of fieldhands less, it's savings for anyone, but ultimately when you were basically paying them fuck-all to begin with, it's not much of a change for an individual lord's coffers.
Maybe if he'd have a great demand for unskilled labor, but your family's current portion Reach doesn't have much swamps to drain and treeroots to dig out for land reclamation work.

Ultimately it doesn't increase yields, just lowers wage expenses and frees up a little bit of workers.

>>2309833
There's also the concern that depending on the wages of the specialists required to repair the seed drill and the local wages for drudge workers, it would not necessarily bring in savings at all.

Blacksmiths make a lot more money than a fieldhand ultimately.

>>2309833
The idea being to use the time to tend to more fields/per farmer or get them into building infrastructure (Autobahn style). I assume there are rivers we could dam for power, orchards we could plant and so on.

If you can stand a bit more prodding, say we implement it in our fief, would we see, say, a 30% increase in food produced if we keep all the leftover peons in agriculture? Is it significantly worse/better?

>>2309838
I have a question Aerys, do you like boats and how much did you enjoy the naval section of the quest?

>>2309855
Horrifyingly disappointed how poorly that ended.
I was hoping for it ending up a grand adventure, but what ended up instead happening was that the moment you ended up in the Vale, you kept picking one poor choice after another.
Iron Islands start was a hardmode one though to be fair that was picked in discord ages ago.

Ultimately, you were too overconfident in your shitty longship, your shitty crew and your shitty guns which cost you your life.
Muskets aren't an I-WIN button. In the best case scenario, they're a YOU-LOSE button.
You relied on one gimmick, refused an escort and chose a battlefield where you couldn't escape from, that being in a river crossing through a valley.

>>2309841
You'd get 0% increase in the amount of food produced.
What you'd get is more unskilled workers to assign to other tasks and more wealthier farming families.
If you don't actually increase the workable lands or somehow increase the rate of growth or yield of your crops, you don't get any more food from a set amount of land.

>>2309855
and yes, I do like boats

Rolled 2, 6, 5, 6, 3, 4, 1, 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 2, 1, 6 = 51 (15d6)

>>2309890
And if we get more farms going on account of them more free labour? More food+more money?

Also, if we know how to make nitric acid, can we make mercury fulminate? Provided we get enough mercury to make it matter.

>>2309897
We don't have enough free land to start new farms because we're a small house of landed knights

>>2309910
I dont know about the reach but IRL, shortfalls were because of too little workable land or too few people. Seeing as the reach is fertile as all hell I dont see that being a problem, Likewise, in the TV show you can see large stretches of grasslands, meaning that everything is not filled with farms. I dont think this would really be a problem.

However, whether we have enough actual people who are experienced enough to set up functioning farms, thats another story.

Rolled 3, 4, 5, 2, 5 = 19 (5d6)

>>2309916
I mean we don't own a lot of land. I think that's what the qm meant when he said that there wouldn't be an increase of food produced.
It's because we don't own land that we're not already using

>>2309916
Well those "grasslands" you see are probably grazing grounds for the animals and signs of some form of tradition that might mimic crop rotation, thus explaining why Reach is fertile in the first place.

That's actually why I think piety in the first place was such an important thing for the uneducated in the first place in our world. Without a formal education, all you could really rely on was tradition and with religion being the center of upholding tradition the more socially productive traditions your religion adopted and upheld, then the less misfortune and the greater providence fell upon you, thus showing that it's the right religion.

It's in a way a form of early Darwinism of the gods and why Freedom of Religion would be seen as a bad thing back then. People who follow the wrong traditions invite misfortune upon the land, this much could be observed.

Anyhow, I'm going to now continue writing.

>>2309920
Ok, alot of missing points, me included.

As I understand, we have a set amount of land turned into fields and a set amount of farmers + dumb farmhands. With better tech we could free up the farmhands but then we would need to educate them enough to be farmers/make the farms. This means that we dont get +50 food if we use the seed drill, rather we open up an avenue to get the extra food. The idea being it takes alot more work than making a few machines. Which is fair.

I am wondering, however, whether we are near a trade route (we are near the main road, as I understand) and whether we could divert some of the traffic so we could make a workshop/smithy to sell better tools/weapons to travellers and make a buck that way. Problem being the lord of our lord getting greedy.

>>2309924
You have that correct. Most IRL religions explain why god wants you to wash hands or not sleep in the outhouse.

One final question, how developed are the lands of our family? Could we add farms? Any resources we could use?

>>2309126
Sounds fun as hell. Consider me aboard, gonna try to do some reading and chipping in where I can.

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>Standard attack
>Standard attack
>3 damage with each attack!

You decide to shift your attention to the next enemy within reach, the Reachman on your right. Like last time, you land many a blow with enough force to hurt, but your foe soldiers on, as if refusing to be bested by a mere boy.

As he realizes being at a disadvantage, he bets it all on one last gamble and everything he has on offense, trying to take the Ironborn by your side down.
Unfortunately for him, that didn't seem to be too much. Gyles Blacktyde smacks his opponent's blade to the side and puts him on the dirt.

Meanwhile, on your left, you notice the only one left was Gilbert Farring. Arys Oakheart and Horton Redfort had just hit the dirt as their flank mustered a reckless charge, however abandoning all defense in favor of offense does not come without a cost as Gilberts puts Harras Harlaw in the dirt and prepares to the Riverlander squire.

It's 3 on 5 now.

>Your Team
>Lyn Corbray goes for an aimed strike and rolls 17, doing 5 damage!
>Walder Willum goes for a reckless last ditch attack and rolls for 21! He does 10 damage! His combat defense is reduced until next turn.
>Gyles Blacktyde goes for two standard attacks and rolls for 17 and 13! He does 5 damage with one hit whilst the second bounces off enemy armor, but still causing the Reach Squire to concede.
>Gilbert Farring due to the falling flank adopts a defensive stance and performs a cautious attack and a standard attack, rolling for 10 and 14! He does 5 damage with first hit, causing Harras Harlaw to concede before second hit could land! His defense is increased until next turn.


>Enemy Team
>Harras Harlaw goes for a reckless last ditch attack and rolls for 24! He crits and does 16 damage to Horton Redfort, taking him out! His combat defense is reduced until next turn.
>Iron Islands Squire uses two standard attacks, rolling 12 and 13! He bounces both of his strikes off the enemy's armor.
>Riverlands Squire goes for a reckless last ditch attack and rolls for 20! He does 10 damage to Arys Oakheart, taking him out! His combat defense is reduced until next turn.
>Northern Squire squire goes for a reckless last ditch attack and rolls for 15! His attack bounces off enemy armor and his defense is reduced until next turn.
>Reach Squire goes for a reckless last ditch attack and rolls for 15! His attack bounces off enemy armor and his defense is reduced until next turn.

Choose your combat actions for the next round
>Move and try to finish off the riverlander
>Move and support the right flank

>>2309935
>Move and try to finish off the riverlander

Again

>Standard attack x2

>>2309932
It's for new players I made the summary at the start of each new thread.
Reading those is fast enough to get a general idea of what has taken place on the last thread.
Read those and you're good to play.

>>2309927
Main problem that your family's lands have is that they've essentially met a dead-end in terms of development as an agrarian community. They've got no room to expand unless you wish to begin to evict farming families and then replacing them with more profitable forms of industry, which is something that'd make whomever suggested it really, really unpopular.
You do have a smithy in your region as well, which tends to the travelers' needs, mainly being horseshoes and the like.

Big problem with evicting any farmers would be that you'd immediately see a huge shortfall in tax revenue as there's gonna be less people using the infrastructure that the Lord uses to gather the taxes in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that your family is going to be impoverished any time soon, the lands still produce enough wealth to provide for a good enough lifestyle for a nobleman, but it's not a growing economy. It's primary purposes in the first place was always to provide produce of either food or cashcrops to Highgarden in the first place.

>>2309940
Move is a half action

>>2309950
Since we have to move either way:

>Move
>Help ally/Distract enemy (Whichever is more likely to succeed, in case both have the same rolls and modifiers, help our ally)

>>2309954
Assist doesn't require a roll. It just gives +2 (half of your fighting rank) to the fighting roll of the all you are assisting.

Also, please pick which side you wish to help.

>>2309956
>Move left
>Help ally

Heres hoping our orange is better than the enemy orange.

>>2309956
>Go left
>Help ally

>>2309958
>>2309989
Agreed

Rolled 5, 3, 6, 2, 5, 3, 5, 1, 5, 6, 1, 1, 2, 1, 5, 6, 2, 4, 3, 1, 4, 1, 3, 1, 4 = 80 (25d6)

Rolled 4, 2, 1, 4, 3, 5, 1, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 6, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 6, 2, 5, 2, 6, 4 = 84 (25d6)

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"Gilbert was it? Let's go take out the straggler, I'll back you up. Let's keep that guy busy."
He nods "Let's go"

As the two of you approach the riverlander, he realizes his unfortunate situation and raises his sword high above his head, going for one last reckless charge.
>Enemy takes two fatigue points. Two reckless attacks incoming

Abandoning completely his defense, he takes up wild swings at the both of you with as much fury he could muster, however, he is sloppy. His attacks failing to connect repeatedly as the two of you look for an opportunity. You decide to make one.

You keep moving, forcing him to shift his attention and making back and forth steps to his "zone" the border at which he will lunge out and attack, measuring his reaction area until he finally decides to go for it, leaving him open for an attack from Gilbert.

Gilbert does not dissappoint and puts the squire in the dirt. He moxie, but was lacking in the skill department. As you look to the other flank, your team had managed to clean up there as well. No foe was left standing without visible lipstick marks of the dirt's gentle caress on their hind quarters.

Victory is yours.

Your team
>Lyn Corbray uses an aimed attack and rolls 19! He deals 10 damage, taking down the Northern Squire!
>Gyles Blacktyde uses two standard attacks and rolls 11 and 15! Performing 5 damage on the first swing, causing the Ironborn squire to concede.
>Gilbert Farring assisted by you decides to go for it and uses two standard attacks, rolling for 15+2! Dealing 10 damage, taking down the Squire from Riverlands.

Enemy team
>Iron Islands Squire takes two fatigue points, performing two reckless strikes, rolling for 19 and 9! His first attack deals 10 damage, taking out Walder Willum!
>Riverlands Squire takes two fatigue points, performing two reckless strikes, rolling for 15 and 12! Both of his attacks bounce off the armor.

The Match is over! Your team is victorious! You're in the finals.
Updates will continue tomorrow.

Rolled 3, 4, 2, 4, 2, 1, 4, 6, 5, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 6, 6, 4 = 73 (25d6)

Here's some endurance rolls to see how many hitpoints your former teammates recover.

>>2310086
Seems we might just pull this off. How many are in the final?

Rolled 6, 4, 13, 1, 4, 6, 9 = 43 (7d13)

>>2310088
It's 14 fighters battle royale, everyone fights

Rolled 5, 6, 6, 6, 4, 6, 2, 6, 5, 5, 1, 3, 3, 5, 4, 5, 5, 2, 5, 1, 4, 1, 5, 3, 1 = 99 (25d6)

Rolled 2, 5, 3, 2, 1 = 13 (5d6)

>>2310099
So are we seeing the conclusion to our Noble Beating Simulator: 281 AC? Seems pretty epic.

>>2310110
Oh, you should probably know that your discord link is kill Aerys

>>2310124
How's that
https://discord.gg/H4z8wcy

>>2310112
One way or another

>>2309935
>Move and try to finish off the riverlander
Let's finish off the left flank, then Gilbert & we can both attack the two on the right.
I'm assuming that moving to attack lefty loosey counts as a lesser action?
If so then:
>Move, Assist.
If not then:
>Disarm.

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>>2310520
D'oh!

>>2310084 so since we took benjen Stark "the sexy gay dude with the ice cold hands" can we do something dramatic with our Ransom thing. I'm thinking literally asking a single silver coin.

>>2311158
Nah, he hasn't done anything to be worthy of that.

Regular ransom, or maybe half to show the northerner's we don't hold anything against them in general, just Dick-kick McGee

>>2311588
And for gods sakes don't bet it. Or, at least, place the bets on people we know will lose. We already look too much like a fuckin wizard. We don't need people to think we have a crystal ball too.

>>2311595 we attribute literally everything to training hard work and fervent religious belief as we count our money

>>2311595
No losing bets, Im fine with keeping it but we are not throwing it away. Besides, as Aerys mentioned, it may not end up 100% the same.

However, getting a cool 1500 Dragons would be sweet...

>>2311595
Let them think we are like a wizard if they want.
We're nobility, what are they gonna do? Accuse us of witchcraft?

We're already going to win like 1500 gold if the bets pay off. I think the ship has already sailed on trying to look inconspicuous.

Let's embrace it and keep on accumulating fame as the luckiest, most brilliant nobleman in the realm.

With these winnings we could buy a boat with Blackjack and strippers not that anyone would want to gamble with us

Sailing from port to port as the biggest casino / whorehouse ever we are the Emerald Queen only much more explicitly lewd

You know what would be good? We should get in the good graces of the Alchemists/Pyromancers. If this is after King Roberts rebellion, not only are they most likely out of a job (thus even what amount of money we can give them would be appreciated), they may have the supplies we need for black powder in great quantity.

Plus, the future opportunity to learn how to make Wildfyre. Combine that with modern application of applied pneumatics and viola! Medieval flamethrower.

>>2311910
I seriously doubt they'd ever give up their secrets.

>>2311910
Good basic concept, but as >>2311918 said, very unlickely. BUT, buying wildfire from them and getting rare components for better tech (for example mercury for blasting caps) is a very good idea, provided they are able and willing. Otherwise, a base on a boat is a very nice idea. Build our laboratory and workshop on it, maybe even the forge. Sail the seas, making guns and plundering booty as the smartest, most knightly pimp on the seas.

>>2311910 I can easily see that ending poorly let's stick to people who are less able to actively fuck us. Or at least people who wouldn't have a reason to do so. We're still new on the scene

I think we should get a private Island or a Beachside property where we'll have our own little naval base.

I'm pretty sure we could get a decent deal on such a thing if we manage to fish out some fallen house from the gutter.

>>2311962
Or just buy some random rocky shitty land. Low value, high defense. Build a shipping base and draw attention and visitors with guns and bombs for sale.

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The Squires return to their tents for a brief intermission to rest and perform a brief medical checkup if needed.
As you make it to yours, you sit down and enjoy some water.

Hector enters the tent, happy as a turtle in mud.
"Sensational Arthur! Sensational! We've made it to the finals without any bruises and I trust you didn't exhaust too much yourself out there?"
"I'm alright, just needed a bit to drink."
"Excellent! You've really distinguished yourself today. If you win today, you'll have a seat of honor and will have the honor of meeting the royal family themselves."
"Well, don't count your chickens just yet. One good hit and I'm down."

He calms down a bit, still visibly elated.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to put pressure on you. You've already distinguished yourself far beyond what I could have asked and we've still the issue of ransom to talk about."

> Request no ransom. Best leave a good impression on the Starks
> Demand half a ransom. You like the Starks, but do need coin
> Demand traditional ransom. They will not begrudge you for such a petty sum.
> Write-in

forgot muh trip

>>2312043
>> Request no ransom. Best leave a good impression on the Starks

>>2312043
> Demand traditional ransom. They will not begrudge you for such a petty sum.

>>2312043
> Demand traditional ransom. They will not begrudge you for such a petty sum.

>>2312043
> Demand traditional ransom. They will not begrudge you for such a petty sum.

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>>2312060
>>2312062
Good work lads

>>2312066
At least no one will call us a suck-up.

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> Demand a traditional ransom

"Let's just ask the traditional ransom. It's a petty sum to the Starks anyhow. By now he ought to have sufficient winnings anyhow to pay that."
"Fair enough, we'll go with that. Rest and get ready yourself for the finals."

You close your eyes and feel your heart pumping, taking deep breaths. With your own thoughts as your company. You think on your next move.

Winning the contest would be a prestigious thing and you may definitely have a shot at doing so depending on your luck. Still... you're not entirely sure about it.

You'd have to sit in the same table with the Mad King if you win.
You know he is a sick and dangerous man and you'd be more than willing to pass that honor to someone else. That alone is enough to give anyone second thoughts on actually going for the win during the finals. However, being knighted by member of the Kingsguard and the stipend for winning the squire's melee are both alluring motivators.

Still, it's not as if there isn't an opportunity in losing as well. You could offer aid to one of the contestants in order to gain their favor. Come to think of it, House Oakheart is an old and powerful house in the Reach and Arys seemed to be rather amiable fellow. Perhaps there opportunity there?

Of course, the least risky option is to try and make a convincing show of it whilst throwing the match.

What to do...

> You think it's worth it to risk the few weeks of dining with the Mad King and try to go for a win.
> You think it's best to try and make a convincing show and throw the match without anyone knowing.

What to do...

> You think you ought to offer to help Arys win.
> Something else: Write-in

>>2312121
asdgfdsbpllltfs

fuck me

>>2312121
Try to win, ofcourse! I dont think intentionally losing to a squire will get us all that much unless we are talking decades, especially since there is no guarantee that Arys will win even if we throw it.

Better be smart about fighting and kick some ass.

>>2312121
>You think it's worth it to risk the few weeks of dining with the Mad King and try to go for a win.

Too bad the we won’t win the favor of the Stark’s, imagine being landed in the north were our knowledge of agricultural tech would have the most use, that we would have just the right amount of isolation to experiment with guns, chemicals and shit, without standing a lot

I think we should distance ourselves from the important people to minimize the chances of our bets going tits up.

Also, I don't want to risk a situation we make a blunder and ostracize our family from high society.

Throw or sell the match

>>2312148
You don't actually have any experience in agricultural matters.

Without any actual farming experience, you cannot make any agricultural innovations. Picking up gardening is doable, but don't expect you can actually cause much of an impact in food production without first understanding how does the ecosystem in this place even work without collapsing on itself.

> You think it's worth it to risk the few weeks of dining with the Mad King and try to go for a win.
voting for this

Also, don't expect to get rich on farming if you decide to pick it up. Food is cheap as fuck and just about every region save for major trading hubs is self sufficient on food.

As an export product, it's the bottom tier because literally everyone can make food.

Come on guys. I don't want to be forced to hang around with the mad king.

We'd be stuck on the feasts every day and can't go exploring Harrenhal or socialize during the feasts. We might get stuck with the douchebag for the whole war.

On top of it all, we get noticed by Varys on a personal level.

It ain't worth it.
Besides, this tourney has dragged on too much.

>>2312192
We literally jump to the top. Not only do we get a heap of gold but we also get so much fame and renown its stupid. Talk about opportunities. And for what? A great seat? Sign me up.

>>2312199
We might fuck up our bets.
Instead of 1500 gold, we may end up with 100 gold and fame.

We need the money more than fame to the point that we shouldn't risk it.
Last time we took a stupid risk we died. Do we really want to dance on the razor's edge again?

>>2312121
> You think it's best to try and make a convincing show and throw the match without anyone knowing.
> You think you ought to offer to help Arys win.
Say you just heard that you would be seated with the king, and getting boosted into the games of great nobles at such a young age seems unwise.

>>2312121

> You think it's worth it to risk the few weeks of dining with the Mad King and try to go for a win.

>>2312121
> You think it's worth it to risk the few weeks of dining with the Mad King and try to go for a win.

Remember guise, as easy as it is to get on Aerys' bad side, it's just as easy to win his favor and leave Harrenhall with a lordship or a ton of gold.

>>2312192
>>2312270
Dining with the Royal Family isn't just dining with Aerys tho. You'll also be introduced to Rhaegar and Elia as well as the Kingsguard and whatever Small Council members they've dragged to Harrenhall with them.

>>2312523
Tywin Lannister would beg to differ just so you know.
He did all he could for the Mad King, but he just decided to treat him like garbage.
He is also super paranoid and delusional.

How on earth do you plan on getting to his good side? In case you didn't remember, he burned alive some of his friends too.

>>2312523
This. Let's take a metaphorical throw of the dice & see what the heady mixture of absolute power and serious mental illness can do for us!

>>2312534
Do we really want to get involved with either of them? You know how Robert gets about Rhaegar and both will die within 2-3 years tops.

We have NOTHING to gain from hanging with soon to die royalty and I'd rather not be stuck in capital as mad kings hostage to be ransomed when lannisters sack the city.

You guys DO realize the chance of you surviving through this isn't 100% right?

Like the Mad King isn't going to be giving you any castles, lands or the like unless you hunt down the rebels and even then he might just forget about rewarding you depending how sane he is at the moment.

I want you to be absolutely certain you wish to go through this route before you do, because if you do die... Well, consider the Harrenhal arc and Riverlands arc. Both took a couple of months if I remember correctly.

It's gonna take a long time to get to this far again.

>>2312121
On one hand I want to win... but on the other hand Aerys is enough of a dick to make us join the kingsguard just to fuck with us.
So I'm going with
> You think it's best to try and make a convincing show and throw the match without anyone knowing.

>>2312598
Or he migh just burn us alive.

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>>2312592
Yes
this is can't possibly go wrong

>>2312598
There's also a rumor that Tyrion is Aerys' bastard, him having fucked Tywin's wife to humiliate him.

>>2312121
> You think it's best to try and make a convincing show and throw the match without anyone knowing.
I'd rather try and burnout getting to the top and going for as many knock outs for cash, then "honorably" getting knocked out because we overexerted ourselves.

>>2312592
Changing my vote to sell the match

>>2312121 I vote for trying to win the money and glory is worth the risk

>>2312592
I think we should attempt to upgrade everything in our area to the most modern we can to prepare those around us for the white walkers or just to make the best Empire we can in this world

>>2313543
I think forcing a situation like shiroyama would be best for this world

>>2313577
SURROUNDED AND OUTNUMBERED

>>2314278
50 TO ONE THE SWORD FACE THE GUN

>>2312121> You think it's worth it to risk the few weeks of dining with the Mad King and try to go for a win.
yolo

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>>2312592
Obviously I can't speak for everyone else, but I'm not suggesting we swagger up him, clap him on the shoulder and say "Yo Aerys, how's life in the funny pages treatin' ya?"

We can just sit at the same table quietly, speak when spoken to, and generally just not try and draw unnecessary attention to ourselves. The odds of him suddenly deciding to have us rotisseried for his amusement apropos of nothing, while non-zero, are fairly low, and the rewards for winning the squires' melee are great.

Pic unrelated.

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>Danger zone
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>>2313037

Alrighty then

>>2314695
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj5lDgV5PfY

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>Push it to the limit

Hmm...

You think on your time in this world, the constant attempts by others both in the Isles and in Horn Hill to mold and alter your way of thinking to fit their reasons, their judgements, their world views.
Through violence and through convincing, through preaching and shaming, they tried to change your way to be like them.

"No."

Inspecting the shield, your hands move along it's surface, inspecting the the finish whilst you take a moment to look upon the dents put on to it by the other contestants.
You stand up to look outside and place your helmet upon your head.

'I'm too old to live in fear.'

Adjusting the fit of your armor in the sunlight in the cooling breeze, you move towards the ring., you narrow your eyes and grin. "May the best man win."

The ransom ritual went uneventfully. As expected, Benjen Stark was not short enough on cash to care one way or the other, promptly paying you the market price for his gear, making you approximately 800 stags wealthier, but what followed afterwards was nothing but tension.

Squires were formed into a circle with all eyes upon them as their names were called, eagerly awaiting for the final match to begin and for the Tourney to begin. The Sun was looming high above as the Wailing tower protested the festivities, causing the wind to moan.

"...Arys Oakheart! Horton Redfort! Gilbert Farring! Arthur Tallon! Gyles Blacktyde! Walder Willum! Lyn Corbray! Hubard Rambton! Stannis Baratheon!"
Wait- what?
"...Brandon Pyle! Tyland Serret! Ethan Risley and our final contestant Richard Horpe!"

"You've trained and fought well young squires to make it this far! Each and every one of you has displayed great skill and valour this day, but there may only be one Champion! As is tradition in the ways of both the Andals and the First men, one man must stand superior above the rest. Gods favor upon him with a strong arm!"

"Final battle is about to begin. The Rules of the final contest are simple. Every squire shall fight for himself and he who defeats the most foes wins the championship. The Last Man standing shall receive a stipend of 20 gold dragons, the Champion shall receive a stipend of 100 Gold Dragons and be awarded a knighthood by a man of the Kingsguard, Oswell Whent himself!"

"At the signal of the lovely Lady Lorenah Whent, our very own Queen of Love and Beauty, let the fight begin."

The lass crowned with a wreath of flowers stands up and speaks out.
"Warrior be with you squires!"
As she lets go her handkerchief, the fighters take their stances.

'The Die is Cast'
>It's fighting time

>I'll bide my time and wait for someone to come to me.
>I'll take on the squire to my right (Move action + 1 lesser action)
>I'll take on the squire to my left (Move action + 1 lesser action)
>Write-in

Rolled 2, 2, 1, 2, 4, 4, 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, 3, 6, 3, 1, 5, 3, 2, 3, 5, 2, 2, 6, 5, 2 = 78 (25d6)

Rolled 3, 4, 1, 3, 5, 5, 6, 3, 6, 2, 2, 4, 1, 2, 3, 5, 3, 5, 4, 2, 1, 5, 4, 5, 1 = 85 (25d6)

Yes, most of the time for this update was spent on creating thos

Rolled 3, 4, 1, 4, 3, 6, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 2, 6, 6, 3, 5, 5, 6, 5, 3, 6, 6, 5, 2 = 98 (25d6)

>>2314997
...those named characters

Fuck, I really need to remember to turn off the timer when I'm still writing.

>I'll bide my time and wait for someone to come to me.

Give me 4d6 for initiative as well

Rolled 6, 6, 5, 3 = 20 (4d6)

>>2315077
ALLAHU ACKBAR