Personally, I'd like to find the bastards behind Kaylissa. I know there are some plot threads from before the city that you guys might be following, and I'm good with whatever.
Well maybe those two can be combined in some way, like we can help with Kaylissa while trying to find out more information on what happened before. I think we are still trying to track someone down. I'd have to review what we did before and our plans for coming here . Downside for the long campaign is forgetting stuff
Possible threads from before we came to Kaiserberg wrote:
1. Jaegr set out to find Father Rim, who purportedly made it all the way to the elf-city of Hylore, capital of Aviona (west across the river and across the Cortland Marshes of Balvora)
2.According to the surviving bandit at the beginning of the campaign, they were hired to fetch a box (not the one with the stone head, it turns out) by a half-elven male in Kaisersburg, up-river (north) of your current location
3.The mongrelman, an ally of the goblins, had promised a Lord Fairpoint in Aviona that he would attempt to recover the box as well;
The mongrelman was a correspondent of a goblin named "Morgh," although none you killed seems to have been literate enough to mainatain a chain of letters
4.Vanya has a serious grudge now against the Chancellor's Battalion (headquartered in Hylore, although the captives you took were reporting to someone in Kaisersburg -- possibly the same guy who hired the bandits?)
Mark off #1 because Jaegr isn't in any hurry to find Father Rim.
#2 is the reason we came here and it threads in with #4 even if Vanya is no longer with us.
#3 is still out there as a thread.
Kirth wrote:
This time, when you are offered accommodations at the hotel (all of you!), you are in a position to turn them down if you so choose. The Duke hands you all a reasonable purse, gives Kelgan a hastily-scrawled note authorizing leave of absence (with the dates left blank), and offers you all the job of replacing the City Watch. He also asks if you'd be willing to look further into the schemes going on -- it is his belief that Kaylissa was ultimately a flunkie, not a mastermind -- but says he'd understand if you begged off and disappeared "while I'm looking in the other direction."
I can see us working together to find this half-elf in Kaiserburg and the people behind Kaylissa. (and they may be the same) Its a great way to have you join us permanently with in game reasons!
But to warn you we seem to leave a trail of desolation behind us, so its probably better to find a den of bad guys soon! Jaegr isn't too surface savvy yet either, but he is getting there.
The bandit, once his vision clears and sees the remains of the marshal, is thoroughly convinced; with the other theatrics added to it, he can't wait to tell you everything he knows.
"We got us hired by this mean-looking half-elf in Kaisersburg, said a cross-land caravan would have a box in it he was willing to pay top gold for! Said it was, oh, 'bout two feet on all sides, and locked, and that if we opened it he'd eat our souls! Said, s'long as we got the box for him, we could keep whatever other spoils from the wagons, on top of the gold he was gonna give us."
Here is the half-elf we are looking for. No other info was given unfortunately
But to warn you we seem to leave a trail of desolation behind us, so its probably better to find a den of bad guys soon! Jaegr isn't too surface savvy yet either, but he is getting there.
I set fire to every watch post in the city to create a diversion so I could attack Kaylissa. I'm not at all averse to a 'trail of destruction' to achieve my objective.
I'm pretty sure based on my intel that these Canaries, including K, are remnants of the chancellor's battalion. I'd say let's track down that half elf. I've got some contacts in the city that can probably help.
UPDATE: New job is overwhelming, with 13+ hour days, out-of-state travel with no notice, random work on weekends and days off, and so on. Even when I'm in the office, they're strict about interwebz usage. Sorry, guys, looks like there's no way I can keep this thing going until work conditions change. If one of you wants to pick up the DM job and run with it, you're welcome to!
Just wanted to add that I've really, really enjoyed the PBP game up until now, and am very sad to have to let it lapse. I'd game in person with any of you guys in a second -- and, indeed, I'll be happy to buy any of you a beer if we ever meet in person. Drop me a line if you find yourself in Western PA!
Just want to say ditto as well and thanks to Kirth for the ride so far. Western PA isn't that far from me. I'll let you know if I'm in that area and let me know if you make it a little southeast.