The Lion and the Rose, the II ASOIAF Game (Sign Up - Rules Thread)

[Garlan Gunter]

Hi, another recruit from Westeros!

I'd be really interested in joining either as Aurane, Ser Denys Mallister, or...someone else? Can I pick more of less any lord?

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Aurane was last seen chilling on Driftmark with the dromonds and Qyburn, right?

And Jon Con is bound for the wall...hrrrm.

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Edmure is an amusing and tempting option too!

EDIT: I've pondered and I'd like to join as Aurane.

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I'm been thinking about that too. He drove Stannis loyalists off Driftmark (presumably with the plan of stealing the place from his legit kin) so Stannis is probably out as options go. I'm thinking thus far he's been nominally Tommen, in practice indy pirate rebuilding up a wee fleet, but when I start playing him he will consider all options (dragons, kraken, etc), and what sort of price he can extract...

EVEN more important: how many of my shiny dromonds are left and do I have a friendly neighbourhood Qyburn still...?

EDIT: missed a page! still wonder about Qy as I'd obv like to use him as a POV

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Well, you do have about 5 dromonds plus a few ships from House Velaryon, as its current young Lord is under your custody.

IS he now, I'd assumed he'd been nabbed north with Stannis! Um, well, I'll endeavour to be an, ahem, benevolent nunclehahahaha

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am I kicking off in the turn that's beginning now (seven, right?)

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oh ok! so presumably I wait for this bit to all finish as I don't yet know what my forces etc are

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The Starks and the North are having a disturbingly calm, happy time of it. Bring on Ramsay and some new snowman friends, to the tune of Walking in the Air...

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Me too, bwahaha

I wonder, how did Ser Jorah get back into Dany's good graces? I thought he was last seen drinking silver haired whores etc! Still. Ulp. Bit of a game-changer if she turns up soon indeed!

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I know, but I thought I'd read somewhere he was already exiled? may have misremembered

EDIT: aha! see first post of this thread

EDIT: second actually

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I just love reading and writing PoVs! But I think I will try and keep Aurane himself as a last resort, working out what side characters can do and know (especially, essentially, sidekicks of a side character) is really good fun, as well as strategically discreet...

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don't take after GRR Martin too much!! good luck

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def agreed! I'd love to read some more detail on that from one PoV or other, or the game itself

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ouch! big bad stag, pick on someone your own size...

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ouch! big bad stag, pick on someone your own size...

Well you did mount the dragon

I was hoping to buy you off with Lannister gold but was too slow

haha! and you think the noble House Velaryon would bow to your vile Lannister pelf and threats? ahem.

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well now you mention it I could kinda use a loan these days...!

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have been drawing inspiration from Black Sails

If Flint, Vane, Rackham et al can survive monumental cock-up disasters and come out stronger, so can the Lord of the Waters

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Objection m'lud! I got legitimised by Aegon last turn; I'm Aurane Velaryon now and 'd like the wee legit boost for which I paid so dearly...

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Oh. Well I was still called Aurane Waters in the narrative (and the Sand Snakes remained Sandy too) so I just wondered if there hadn't been a mistake...

EDIT: brunette tan dead Tyene?! show canon or conspiracy hmm...

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The Snakes were legit'ed by Aegon, same time as me, last turn!

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I'd be glad to do a PoV if there are any more going, this round or in the future...

Glad to catch up with the adventures of my wayward bride!

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A disillusioned Northman's song
 
Waken before dawnin' to a new-mint whetstone hiss
Stare about a courtyard stinks o' treason and o' piss
See the Warden ridin' past, raise cheers to chase his eyen
Aye, cheer him till you're ragged, 'tis the Bolton's grand design.

Garrons neighin', stallions few,
Syne the Flayed Man took his due,
Stag and Lion floatin', makin' for a pretty view.
Keep your wife a dumbshow, smack your daughter for a sigh,
For fear woman's wailin', Northmen, as the Bastards 'gin to vie.

Watchmen at their wit's end, antlers mid the trees,
Clansmen, sellswords, wildlings, drainin' wassails to the lees,
But mind your oaths, true northmen, think o' boons you owe the throne,
And vows you owed to yesterday's, the boy-king scorned to bone.

When the Red Woman comes fetchin', well, you needn't fear to bow,
Stark's bastard kept the groves white, and they call him Lord Stark now,
When the Boltons came for their price, came to settle then dismember,
Aye, it seems the Leech Lords they forgot what Northmen might remember.

But if stags they demand swearin', mind that they be southron still,
And know nothing of the winter, of our harvest and our chill,
That they'd have the Wall for castles, and take wildling whores for wives,
And they can't know any better, as they charge away their lives -

Escalades and atteints, minin' and blockades,
Snowstorms and edged icicles to shatter men to maids
King or warden, know that you are garnered here to die
So hold the land, bold Northmen, as the Bastards mean to try!

Veer away the stories, curse away your fears
Of some peril left unsleepin', aye, well covert under jeers
Drink your blood when snow runs dry to hammer stone walls down
And fear not that without them your own childer may yet drown

Tallharts stood amid the sedge
Hornwood vengeance 'long the ledge
Every Cerwyn bears his edge
Mustered under Dreadfort's sky -
Cry, the North Remembers!

But remembers what? And why?
 

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turn has yet to begin, right...?

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Ulp! Is that the Crow's Eye gone as well as the False Dragon!?

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Yep, Euron is dead. Another player was also very close to meeting his end, but the dice roll saved him, at least for now... The Reek POV won't be out today, but it will be soon.

I sense a Culrikhan adventure...!