@Mayve It was a few days after the ordeal with the gnolls before your new companion began to confide in you. In the beginning he seemed troubled, somewhat quiet when you first met him. But now, as he loped easily alongside your horse while you rode north toward the port city of Nayim, his deep, sibilant rasp broke the morning air.
"That tomb...the Elderss of my tribe sspoke often of it. It was once a place to worsship T'zo T'kji, the Sswamp Mother. When I wass but a hatchling there wass a pilgrimage, but I yet had my egg tooth, and could not make the journey. These landsss, they have changed much. Or perhapss it is I. I have watched the sstars at night, they are...wrong...." He pauses and lifts his flaring nostrils to the sky and inhales deeply. "The winds tasste different. I yet hear my Mother's ssong, She iss here, but deep, deep beneath the sshifting sandsss." He pauses again and, for a brief moment, fixes his unblinking yellow gaze upon you. "And you, Maayve Tearwrought... the last human I ssaw could barely sspeak. It crawled through the mud like a beasst and wore ragss. The humanss that I know are not like you. They live in filthy cavess and barely know the gift of fire, they do not carry "ssteal," they do not understand the workingss of magic as you do. Thiss..."Empire" you sspeak of... humanss could not do ssuch thingss. I know not how I came to be here, but if it iss the Mother'ss will that I remain, ssso be it."
Ok, so Mayve and Irina met a couple years ago in Brewersbridge.
Mayve and T'zay are just arriving in Plaeton.
sounds like it's the inn for running into Irina.
I leave it to the DM whether this kicks off before (plot hook) or after Mayve drops off the "loot" at the Academy.
If the board is up, the players can RP the meetup introductions...
Anything in particular anyone wants to be doing in the city when we start? Mayve and T'zay will be visiting the wizards at the academy. I can put you all in the inn if you don't have anything specific you want to be doing.
The Inn sounds good to me. Per his story, Rhane just came from a long, grueling adventure and is looking forward to a couple of days of rest and relaxation in the city before he continues his journey to report in to his Order.
Gliressa will have parted ways with Sevram and Rhane at the Inn, for the time being, and will be in back alleys talking to a committee of homeless people, passing on new knowledge, checking in with the state of their shelters, finding out about how giving the citizens currently are or are not, handing out books she stole from the abandoned library where she met Sevram and Rhane, giving out extra rations, etc. She's like a walking Salvation Army van at times like this. I'm kinda handwaving that she'll know people in any big city the party enters, but it'll be all homeless and destitute and low-level functionaries or guards. No one too useful in other words, so my fluff doesn't get ahead of my K checks. :-)
Glee will have told Sevram and Rhane that she'll come back to the inn to chat with them under more civilized circumstances (i.e., over an ale) in an hour or two, but that she's got businees to take care of first.
Gliressa wouldn't be planning on staying at the inn; she'd stay out in the streets.
Maybe posting the initiative order here at the start of the encounter and updating it each time something changes would be a good way to go about it? Oh and the DM rolling the PC's initiative so he doesn't have to scan all our posts and wait for us to make the roll before moving on.
By the way... am I up?
Ugh. Sorry all for the delay in updating. Work has been kinda crazy the last couple days.
I will try to get things moving again tonight, but I've got to get a RL thing done for tomorrow.
After this week my schedule should clear up a bit and I should be able to post more regularly.
DM aLittleTooQuiet has been a little too quiet?
Bah-dum-bah!!!
DM aLittleTooQuiet has been a little too quiet?
HAR!
Terribly sorry for the delay. I've overcome the biggest hurdle at work, so I should have more availability to post going forward.
For anyone who's remotely interested, my employer is launching a new web site for one of the largest corporations in the world, so obviously it's a pretty big deal to the folks who sign my paycheck. I regret that it had to interfere with more important things like gaming.
Just a little heads-up: I think I've mentioned it before, but I am a supervisor at a major electronics retailer. And we're two days out from Black Friday... so, I probably will not be able to contribute much until Monday when I have an off day. If I can at all, I will try and check in between now and then, but I can't make any promises. Just wanted to let you know that if I am holding back the game, feel free to make some attack rolls for me or whatever the situation dictates.
Just... umm... just as a thought. If someone has the capability to douse or heal the burning knight, that'd be swell. I am currently stabilized @ -5HP, but am still on fire. On the elemental's turn, I will burn for another 5 damage, which will put me to -10 and dead.
If not, it's cool. I understand.. just thought I'd throw it out there. Also: no matter the circumstances, I will not be posting my actions more than one round out, no matter what. That was a bad idea, lol.
So I see that Sevram hasn't posted in a month. I didn't realize it had been that long.
Unfortunately, I suppose it's safe to say he's gone. At least he didn't run off with one of those bracelets.
On the bright side, I have a queue of new players waiting for a chance to jump in, and this is as good a time as any to introduce someone.
I'm in a tabletop kingmaker, between game sessions we do the kingdom expansion and invisiblecastle crashed. So those were our economy rolls.
Until you start fielding armies, the economy looks pretty whack. +120 economy on a DC 51. So those rolls were to sell magic items created by merchants during the month and basic resource production. Generally our kingdom is producing $280,000 gold a month, most of which gets spent back on expansion.
