Take two!
Three guess who Thasha is worried about and the first two don't count.
Ok so I was having a hard time remembering everything that Queshem does want to learn about so I went back over the gameplay thread to make notes and that... took a long time. It turned out to be a captain's log of a sort:
As a RP thing it reminded me that Queshem would have let Starra know that:
Thorsson would be a great hire as as a consultant on the mining expedition to Bag Island
If her people run half orc Invar or Jilcup then their people would make good scouts, guides, or guards and that mentioning her name might help with negotiations and good relaations.
Do you think I missed anything below?
Summarized Adventures of Queshem
Took over The Second Wind after death of Algross in attack by pirates.
Took over ship and renamed to The Deadly Bolt.
Made contact with Darla Madile in Firegrass Isle. Learned of the Tian Islands. Neutral Relations.
Made detour to Mgange Cove to assist local and make contact.
*Lost a crewmember to hostile inhabitants.
*Rescued by Magner
*Gained Targets Bloody Abrafo, captain of the brigantine Bahari Laana
*"Big Blue" Baolo, captain of the galleon Kiburo Nguma
*Femi Ekua, captain of the frigate Marjani
Sailed to Hagui Wan in Schenzu Bay.
*Made contact with Head Banker Myo Hui.
*Referred to Chan Ai'Huao in Cho-Tzu.
*Made deal to transport oozes to Cho-Tzu
*Hostile interaction with naval officer Master Xian.
Sailed to Cho-Tzu.
*Incident resolved with escaped ooze en route however led to one casualty and two crewmembers lashed and dismissed.
*Ooze traded to Lo Shei Wen, a member of the Council of three of Shenzhu Bay.
*Made contact with Chan Ai'Huao another member of the three.
*Agreed to help butress her status in the council leading to a stronger Schenchu Bay and more voice for the populace
*Met High Priest Fen Jai. Obtained service of Abadarn Ship cleric for cost of 95 gold.
*Was tailed. Irritated them by using Zone of Truth
Sailed to Bag Island
*On route attacked and took a slaver ship and freed slaves
*Found mysterous bronze box! MYSTERY
*Slaver branding irons
Bag Island
*pay Docking fee,
*Accepted Rabbis and former slaves as new crew
*made contact with Greenbarrows, not Raffles
*made contact with powerful elf wizard, Ysilde
*Magner left to sell ram from Slaver to Beachcomber
*Met Jilcup the Druid.
*Conducted expedition into Bag Island.
*Encounterd necormantic corruption
*Encounterd cerebic fungus
*Descended into dead lake
*Ended source of necromantic corruption in a massive cache of horalcum, escaped with one sackful
*Killed cerebic fungus
*Met Jolis Raffles with gnome attendant Qauil. Did not leave on good terms
*Intoduced to Gnarea of Beachcomber by Magner.
*Initiated successful plan to 'rescue' Jolis Raffles
Mutiny on board The Second Wind
Abadar's Promise
*Get a letter from Abadar.
*Met Key the Eagle on the way to Quent
Quent
*Met Raven Mastock captain of the Woman's Blush
*Met Irrois Starra and made deal for sack of horalcum
*Sent update message to Sea Dragons
*Told Starra of plans and Draflo noticed something on her necklace.
*Met Jerroam
*Traded knowledge of Bag Island recent events for knowledge on Gnarea
*Learned Runes on Box are decorated on Starra's home.
*Hired Tenkac and Pokimbell carpenters
*Trained Key
*Hired Thorsson for a single trip to Bag Island
*Overhauled The Deadly Bolt
*Met Crowther and convinced him to finance supplies for Bag Island
*Made deal with Starra to trade location of starmetal deposits in exchange for assistance in raid/
*Glimpsed a mysterious tatoo on Starra MYSTERY
*Starra claims runes just some pattern from a dead religion and that's it. She's lying.
Back to Bag Island
*Found listening device on Crowther's supplies. Threw it overboard halfway
*Passed rocky area to land at bay
*At rocky area found a norborger altar and a troll killed by floodslain zombies risen from dark magic
*Found cave with an iron ring with note that says in case of emergency.
*Travelled inland from bay and ran across traps and macabre displays
*Found refugees led by Jilcup.
*Set trap using Rabbis as bait.
*Learned of daemons.
*Went underground
*Met Invar the half orc and his people
*Led into traps by daemons that eventually led out to Beachcomber
Beachcomber
*Found new building and empty Beachcomber
*Building has a sacrificed town and trapped Daemon
*Gnarea in inner room working on portals
*Being observed by a tall hooded figure MYSTERY
*dressed in deepest green, cloak hemmed with red to look like bloody foam, like a stormy sea churned with blood.
*a human or elven woman.
*Rejected Gnarea for something
*How quickly 'the god' provides. She serves a higher purpose.
*Gnarea trying to summon Szuriel, a horseman of the apocalypse, into the Material Plane
*Managed to defeat. And found:
*A very in-depth map of the local islands in the Shackles.
*A small book, latched and locked.
*An unholy symbol of Norgerber.
*A bag of 400 gold coins
*A small ornate silver box without a lock -- scrying implements for various people including Raffles and Magner
*A ring made of blue carved coral Ring of Water Walking
*A stout wooden box, locked tight Contains a Blazing Robe
*A 100 feet of very light, thin rope Rope of Knots
*A hidden compartment with a sketch of the mysterious bronze box
*J&R symbol Jannum RathMiller
SlipCove
*On way opened book and activated trap. Lost one crewmember. Draflo would continue to study carefully
*Barely beat a Rampore slaver to dock
*Meet Issa Greenbarrow and convinced him of good intentions
*Met Bedu, rakasha leader of Rampore who offered an underhanded peace offer.
*Convinced Issa to offer a delaying counter offer which was not accepted
*Go with Issa to Ysilde for zone of truth spell
*Convinced Ysidle to scry Raffles
*Scryed Raffles in presence of Issa
*Left for Quent
Quent
*Spread rumours of Rampore weakness
*Praised Crowther publically
*Brokered deal between Starra and Bag Island, including Starra's order of protection of Bag Island.
*Learned from Thasha that Starra has changed.
First off, wow. That is an impressive list! Three years of gaming summed up is not a small thing. Do you feel that the game has been fun and interesting?
To be fair I forgot about a few of these things.
The only thing I think you missed was Pokimbell having an almost religious reaction to the box and his little spiel about the cult of his mechanic God, Brigh. Which is very impressive, that that is the only thing you missed.
I am a bit humbled by how much effort that log must have taken to make.
It took a while for sure, but it was fun trip down memory lane. We've hit a heck of a lot of different story beats over the last 2 years or so huh?
Are the runes on Starra and the box the same as the sytlized eye on the disc she found on the loot from Gnarea?
Yes indeed.
Hey I'm going on vacation starting tomorrow for about five days so any posting will be real sporadic until the 16th or so!
LIke I said on discor I'm also starting a new job on the 22nd. I have NO idea what that'll do to my posting rate but at least for a while it'll be slow for sure as I figure out how much free time I will have. Might even be more as the commute is shorter but we will see.
Taking the party outside was genius.
Hope everything is okay.
Sorry, my sister moved to Miami and we hosted a Memeorial Day event at my house.
Apologies.
Hey those two things aren't anything to apologize for!
Having fun? The stakes are raised but in a very different way then Bag Island.
Work has gotten ridiculous lately. My posting rate is going to slow down I think.
Do we need to take a break?
sigh Yeah I think we might.
Do you want to give me a date to check back in on? A week, a month? Or just have you post when you are ready?
Ah man, maybe do a weekly check in.
How are you doing?
I'm doing all right. Not the best but not bad, really. Most of the games are going well, which is good. A few new faces, some really talented players.
I noticed you've run a few new recruitments! It really seems like Golarion inspires you a lot.
As designed, Golarion has a patchwork of all different types of places and genres going on. Granted, take as a whole it is stupidly unrealistic, but I generally ignore that and just enjoy the cool places. But good players, like yourself, sell it.
Hows the new job?