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As you approach the area near where the fires might have been, a T'skrang leaps down from the tree, bow in hand, arrow knocked, and a funny look in his eye...you've seen that look in the Archer adepts back in Tsennan... "This here road b'longs t' Sk'Reet Valkos" The T'Skrang says in a matter of fact tone. "1 silver t'pass me by un'armed...
a peaceful night, and another on the road the next day. You're of the foothills more now, the land is more sparse, you camp on the top of a hill on the second night. You note a campfire burning in the distance, yours was sheltered, so wouldn't have been so visible. Better watch out on the road tomorrow, who knows who'll you'll meet on the road tomorrow...
You wait by the gates for Rey, it's been a trying couple of weeks, after Tartuk's death, his ork mother lost the will to live, and died two days later, funeral rites were performed, and a funeral pyre was set. It took two weeks to prepare the rest of the town for the journey, wagons and litters were crafted, and the rest of the supplies were packed for the journey. The last thing to happen only last night was the sealing of the Kaer, the entrance collapsed while a marker stone was set to indicate that the Kaer was abandoned, and to seek the Tsennaites in Bartertown.
several weeks pass as everyone trains, and plans are made to evacuate the village of Tsennan, the new stranger, Rey Ar'teb is very helpful in organizing and cataloging. It is decided that Glottal Cha and Rey Ar'teb are to travel to Haven seeking audience with Hiermon. The area around Parlainth is dangerous, only the treasures of the seat of the Theran Governor city Kaer/Citadel of Parlainth keep adventurer's employed, as the ruins are rife with danger. Spies from Thera abound in Parlainth, As many loyal to Throal are killed by Therans within the ruins as are killed by Constructs, Horrors, and beasts changed by the Scourge. Rumors even tell of a True Dragon within the ruins. Haven is a frontier town if ever there were one... The rest of the Tsennites will be accompanied by the rest of the adepts in their journey to Bartertown, Glottal knows he'll always have a place amongst them, as a savior of the woodsmen, but for now, adventure awaits.
Yeah, it's looking like we're done. I'm really surprised more people weren't willing to give it a go as ED is hardly an obscure niche system - wrong time maybe. Anyway, thanks for giving me the chance to finally play it. Funnily enough I'm finding I'm on here more and more rarely these days. Only got 1 current pbp here now, and the posting rate has been so slow, maybe I'll just cut my ties - 1 less site to have to check! My schedule is screwed LoL...I'm partially unemployed currently. Not fully partially...weird situation...decided to go ahead and look for a new full-time job anyway...
OK...oh another character creation thing that changed...point buy, with eac race having its own starting stats.
Do you have the RedBrick Classic or the LRG second edition? It's mostly intact...minor changes mostly, lots of stremalining like I said. Forexample, aggressive attack, you'd gain +3 to your result for your attack instead of boosting the step by 3. It's mostly to speed up combat, so you don't always have to recalculate your step. The disciplines are mostly the same, but instead of everyone choosing the same talents based upon discipline, you have to take the normal 5, but each circle (incl 1) you can choose 1 from the Talent Options list. As far as discplines, we lost the wizard. We have an Archer, Swordmaster and Elementalist remaining...as far as I know, I keep getting confirmation everyone's playing, but the posting has been sparse, I'm trying to jumpstart it right now... I'm going to inject a GMPC a human journeyman unless we get at least 1 more. [mostly as background...he'll be a guide to Haven for the moment.]
There are rules for turning a skill into a talent, I think there's a LP discount for it, I'll have to look it up. Or you can choose a different skill.
Tartuk's mother comes rushing up, her wizened face masking much of her concern, "Where is Tartuk?" Genna asks as though she already knows the answer. The town elders approach, Geleem's wife and children appear, and immediately begin to wail over his corpse. After the party describes the events to Genna and the town council the town elder then states, "We shall need to revisit whether we stay here now, once we thought we could carve out a new town here, but perhaps Bartertown would be a better place for the rest of us. This is not a safe place for a small town, this world is changed from the world of old." "As for that relic, that blood-red pendant, we have no troubadour to tells its tale, a trip elsewhere would provide those answers."
This is the New Village of Tsennan. No you can't buy a Stat increase and get a free one, the free increase replaces the purchase options. I handed out enough LP to get everyone to 2nd circle so we could move on to the next level, as I said I'm going to accelerate the game to 4th circle as fast as possible, without actually starting it there. So with that extra 800 LP, you could increase 3 more talents to 2nd rank, and purchase two talents (circle talent and talent option) to rank 2. which would advance you to 2nd circle. As soon as you advance to circle two you automatically receive your Circle 1 stat advancement. Skills are in the game to give a greater depth of character, skills are always outclassed by talents, skills often are weaker (Great Leap is in feet, not yards for the skill), they can NEVER use karma, and they max out at rank 10, versus 15 for Talents. Talents are powered by discipline magic. Skills are trained. Knowledge skills, Artisan skills, and many non-combat skills are largely unavailable as talents, though some are accessible as half-magic uses based upon discipline. I know it's a lot to absorb...heh.
You can either make up a small village you're from, or you could be from Throal, or you could have most recently been from Haven, and you might know Hiermon, I did mention some of you might have been dispatched from Throal or Haven. Throal is the major dwarf city, as a troll you wouldn't be from the main part of the city, you'd be from the outer city, where non-Throalic citizens are from, you'd know about the Library of Throal.
You don't spend LP for attribute increases currently, I'm using the "Free attribute increase" option at each circle increase (this is because I want to keep the game moving faster, and those LP used for attributes normally can be spent on talents instead of attributes.) [pg. 238 top right - Free Increase] To hit 2nd circle you need to get 5 main talents at 2nd rank. (then you have to have enough to buy your new talents at rank 1 minimum.) I think I mentioned that on the last page. Skills do not factor into the increase of circle at any time!
It only gets better, once that circle 4 breakpoint hits, which opens up thread items...it becomes even better. I may eventually make Thread weaving a circle 2 talent option as a house rule.
Anyone want to give this place a name? Remember, names are VERY important in Earthdawn, The name of a location, an item, and people have meaning in Earthdawn. You will eventually develop a name for your group...(once we get it down to the constant players). Threads can be woven to locations, to items and even each other. The cave is tainted, you can't remove the taint...yet...so what will you do?
Burial Rites. Burial rites would probably vary by kaer and region, I don't remember any mention of them in any book I've read. If a kaer had a problem with cadaver men in the past, then I'm sure the dead would be treated more completely than a kaer that hadn't. Whether that would be with crypts, or with pyres, who knows. tou? Look right to me.
tou? You have to be trained by someone of a higher discipline yes. Which all the characters that started in the Kaer, have masters.
Fenswalder can tell that astral space has been tainted in the cave using his astral sight.
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