A group of soldiers stood in a nervous group, quietly muttering and murmuring.
They didn't know what was happening to them, only that whatever had been happening, that removed their leaders one by one, that removed their contact with the outside world, had just gotten a lot worse.
Like many of those chosen to guard the keep of the Northern border they were without leadership. A fact not helped by Corporal Retheld taking three of their commrades to investigate recent events. He had not returned.
There was rumours from a passing patrol, who were even more nervous than they, that there was fighting up near Lord Thomas's quarters.
Since it had moved on they'd been left alone. Only the occassional scream and ring of steel on steel hinted at what was happening through the keep.
So caught up in their deliberations were they that they only noticed the creaking and clatter of armoured footsteps when it was nearly upon them. They formed up, spears and swords held tightly by trembling fingers.
A giant of a man seemingly filled the corridor as it strode towards them. A blood stained sword in one hand and the head of Lord Thomas Havelyn dangling from the hair of its head in the other!
The group of smirking cuttroats and gloating diabolicalists behind him only added to their knee trembling fear.
Throw down your weapons NOW, kneel at my feet and you will live to see the dawn!, the figure roared, the hellish scenes in his black armour standing out in the torch light.
The clatter of shields, spears and swords was a brief deafening.
And so it went - those who would not surrender were cut down with blade, with arrow and with unholy magics until those who had surrendered, and such priests that remained living knelt in the courtyard of the keep.
After an hour of this a trio of men tried to make a break for it.
What happened afterwards to them by way of example made the prisoners weep and feel ill.
At length one of their captors cocked his head.
I'd say our friends are arriving, he nudged one of the prisoners with his feet and indicated another with a jut of his chin. You and you - open the gates!
Rushing to comply they gaped in horror as they saw the army of torch carrying monsters marching towards the gateway to Talingard... an army with nothing to stop them!
Hows that?
Bravo! Run with it!
Not enough Agrippa!
Adding you in
Most excellent Master Crofter. Agrippa says with a nod of his head, you see my value.
Oh, well;
It went out without any chance to add anything from my part.
Some things must be said, before we continue:
Not all the soldiers were killed, taken into the courtyard. We can assume you guys killed, imprisoned about 30 of them. There were still pockets of resistances.
Other than that, I was meaning to get you directly into the gatehouse, not ending this part.
Then again, what’s done is done, let’s roll with it. :)
That being said, there’s still some things you could have done, and that will ‘in some parts’ spoil the perfect victory Eldred described.
However, you have already done enough to ensure victory.
It'll take me some time to write up an sum up of everything that happened.
I'll post it later. :)
If there is a chapel Sidous occupies it, reconsecrating it to his deity. He would loot anything worth taking and destroy anything of Mitra. He would also work to convert any men who show an inkling. The group may need an army after all.
Okay boys.
Let's talk.
About loot, there's really nothing much else to be found.
Almost everything was in the lord's room.
The magister priest had nothing besides a golden Mitra symbol, that was vandalized as the bugbears ransacked the place. Others was just some gold pieces from the soldiers.
Book one ended.
I'll keep this campaign active for some more time, if you want to talk with Tiadora or Sakkarot, or do anything else you may want to do.
I'll give it, a small pause. One week, I think, since I still need to read book two. Then I'll create a new campaign for us.
Also, I invited someone to play with us, but I'm not sure if he is up to play an evil campaign, depending on his answer, I'll ask in my other games if someone else wants to join us.
That's it for now. You've done a really great job. :)
Congratulations. xD
Agrippa is just interested in the spellbook, and then possibly summoning a devil so he can enter the diabolist PrC.
Are you planning on getting in that PrC, at level 6?
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I'd like to yes, but only if it makes sense and fits with events in the campaign.
Well, there's really no issue with that. If you want, I say go on.
However, I don't know if I forgot or you didn't told me about this. It would have been easier to introduce, in the game one scroll, to fulfill the conditions.
Also, more than that, at the house rules, there are some that says things like these, should be incorporated into gameplay, so the char don't 'go to sleep' and learn a new class.
Anyway, would it bother you to go into the class at level 7? So we have some time to introduce it in game, giving more flavor and RP potential to your character. What do you think?
I hereby recant my decision to withdraw.
Here is my character, a future Diabolist
From my first post in recruitment =) Level 7 is fine.
Oh, that was so long ago! You should have told a level ago. xD
Okay. I'll start thinking about it.
Also mark me down for a level of Assasin at 7
Hp for 6
Re loot: can we just sell everything to the Bugbears? I'll RP it, I promise :> I imagine they've got cash now from the sacking of the town, and they are going to need good steel weapons. And best of all, they don't care if its marked by the talingarde military.
I'll break down the shares this weekend once Aku confirms its all good for sale, and those last pieces get IDed, so if there's anything else anyone would like to claim, now's the time to do it.
Hey maybe the Bugbears even have some items they can sell us! An army is kinda like their own little mobile town after all.
Can we just assume that Agrippa takes 20 on each item? Is time a factor?
Magic items are:
Headband of alluring Charisma +2
+1 Composite Longbow (+4str)
+1 Chainshirt
+1 Halberd
The magic pot from the magister lab is a Cauldron of Brewing
I think that's it.
Tell me if I missed something.
we levelled?
@eldred.
I created a new campaign thread.
Check the post above, your answer is in the new campaign. :)
Sidious could use that headband, at least for now. It would mean another channel per day.
On the Diabolist class - There is a requirement to cast Lesser Planar Ally. So you need to find or buy a scroll of that spell. And since its a 4th level spell there is a spell failure chance. And if you do succeed you might still fail the charisma check to successfully coaxed the fiend into performing the task. So its safer and easier to wait til 7th level to take the class when you can simply pick up Lesser Planar Ally as one of your two free spells.
Take the band
Sidious could use that headband, at least for now. It would mean another channel per day.
Noted and logged
Thanks. The extra channel is quite nice but the stat bump helps all the charisma skills too. Someday Sidious will trade it for a wisdom headband but for now this is likely better for the group.
Now I wonder if we could trade the +1 halberd for a +1 spear... :)
@Agrippa.
Is there any pathfinder ruleset about making sacrifices to summon a devil? Or are you just leaning in that previous occasion, when you killed Tep and a devil was summoned?
Here is the link to the PFSRD. Some Devils like certain things, Agrippa will be doing research into what types of Devils want what types of sacrifices. He is hoping to garner some favor with a Devil in order to learn new and powerful arcane magic as well as perhaps some true names.
The PRD doesn't have a ton of information really, the Princes of Darkness book has more, I'll try and pick that one up soon.
I think the spell Lesser Planar Ally covers it pretty well. It lets you call and then bargain with a devil. How you do so is up you you. You can flatter it, bribe it, or force it.
The GM and I are working on it.
Things have turned to s~*$ at work, again. I'll be gone (mostly) for 72 hours or so before things settle enough
@Johan, cauculate for me everything you'll try to sell to Sakkarot.
Also, Sidious, instead of putting a ooc note about the siege engine, why not bring it in character? Talk to Sakkarot, he is ugly but he is a nice guy! :D
10,140
10,140
Selling price?
If yes, Sakkarot would be willing to pay 7k for it.
If not, he would pay 5k.
Also, don't forget you promised him some magic items.
@Sidious
Will you Rp giving the siege engine to Sakkarot?
Sure. With the talk of the fire, I wanted to hear from you that it was not destroyed first.
It was not.
It's the top of the keep. Safely away from most of harms.
I just want to know how you plan to get it out of there!
Be creative! :D
No, selling price, including magic items.
No, selling price, including magic items.
Okay, so, here is the deal.
The horde is not starving for weapons and armors, since you delivered a large supply.
But Sakkarot see logic in your words, so he is willing to pay, not the price it is worth, but 7k.
If you come up with a good RP for him, I'll raise for 8k.
If Sidious present the siege engine, and was creative about removing it from the keep's roof, I'll raise it for 9k.
Sorry for being slow. Busy at work today.
So the book lists a Trebuchet as coming in three categories: Light, Standard, and Heavy. But it does not give a weight for any of them. The light has 50 hp, the standard 100, and the heavy 200. This can give some indication of size as a wood had 10hit points per inch of thickness.
Trebuchet are never rolled about and need to be assembled on the battlefield. This means they are designed to come apart and be reassembled.
As part of leveling Sidious is willing to put a skill point in Profession Siege Engineering. This would give him a +7 in this skill and, in my opinion allow him to disassemble and reassemble the Trebuchet, likely by taking 10. Agrippa with his +10 knowledge engineering could supervise the exercise with Johan and Eldred providing extra muscle. Thouhts?
If we are gonna get screwed, and trust me, I think the Bugbear is being ok here in only paying that amount, lets just drag it to our next adventure and see what we can get there.
Er, GM asked me to try to figure how to get the siege engine down and to present it to the bugbear in the game thread. So I did...
Well done... was a bit late to post.
Sigh. There was a fire. I asked but only learned today that the siege engine was not destroyed in that fire. I honestly figured it would have been.
Not really.
We are just considering you had the good idea of disassembling it before it was wasted.
Johan, if you'll accept Sakkarot proposal, please clean up the loot list and let's move all other discussion for the new campaign.
I'll inactivate this one.
Will do.
@Eldred: yeah, I had the same thought about just taking it all with us - or sinking it all to the bottom of the harbour in Sakkarat's sight just to be peevish and defiant. But with Sidious stepping in with the siege engine, we're only getting a little bit screwed so, yeah.
Final tally:
Agrippa:
heart of all flame
wand of fireballs
cloak of resistance+1
scroll of detect magic
4,882 gp
Eldred
+1 greatsword
+1 composite longbow(+4str)
+1 chain shirt
3,412 gp
Sidious
hvy x bow+40 bolts
cloak of resistance+1
silver holy symbol of Mitra
headband of alluring charisma (+2)
4,060 gp
Johan
+1 deathless fullplate
mstwk dagger(Alerion sigil)
3,711 gp
Party slush fund
+6,462 ( total of 8,289)
Can we tap the party slush a bit - say 500gp each more and drop the slush fund a bit? Its a bit on the high side for the moment.
So the items and gold = the total gain since we got out of the mini dungeon for the cardinal? Ie the total gain for the story arc?
Not quite, everything from the frosthamar boat ride we sold in town because it was unmarked. This covers everything from after the fight with Damien until now. Mostly talingarde military stuff that we can't sell to anyone other than the bugbears.
I'm good with each taking another 500 out of the slush fund. Its like deffered profit sharing! Asmodeus pioneering the way to Talingarde's first stock market :>
So the 2.311k we made from the fight post fight with Damien stays as well?