A Tale Of Peasants And Kings (Inactive)

Game Master Aku Warashi

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

I hope you feel better soon Aku. I know how terrible the flu can be.

The plot thickens as the dreadful woman threatens to end Viklop’s life. What’ll be the heroes choice?

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Damiel attempt to trick the bandit into fleeing didn’t work, as the same hooligan showed exceptional resistance to mind control. More than ever, Viklop’s life hangs at the tip of the enemy blade.
What will the heroes do?

@Rendyl

Good rolls. ;D

Oof, that was an epic combat. Kudos to our good DM for setting it up, and congrats to everyone else for finishing it off! Great game, looking forward to seeing what happens next!

EDIT: Did we find Vik's horse, at least?

Thanks Djebelle.
I usually don't do random encounters, and I kinda like dramatic/players-against-the-odds type of combats;

@Horse
You found no horse at the camp.

Fine with me! I love PbP, but random fights really slow things down. Agree with your view of few-but-climactic combats.

Also, @Vik - hope you're OK with Djebelle's reaction. I dislike PvP and this isn't intended to be that, but more a spur for RP. If you are uncomfortable with that, please just ignore it :-)

No that was perfect! While I am sad that Vik was downed so quickly and mortified that he was being used as a hostage, it was a perfect part of the story, in my opinion. He will have to work very hard to win back the trust of the group...now will that make him more foolhardy or will he become more thoughtful?? Only time can tell..lol

Oh, and to top it off, he still cannot find his horse...lol

@Vik

You thought it would be that easy to get back your horse? :O
Let’s say the new goal of the game is to get the horse back, instead of creating a kingdom!

No more Kingmaker, rather Horsefinder...lol

@Damiel

The ones in the map including Kressle, except bandit two which used the Viklop distraction to bold away, can be killed or captured alive depending on how you want to play it. Feel free to assume whatever result you want.

@Vik

You thought it would be that easy to get back your horse? :O
Let’s say the new goal of the game is to get the horse back, instead of creating a kingdom!

"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"

Ha. Let's hope we do better than poor old Richard III...

Loot tracker should be updated. Feel free to find my almost inevitable mistakes. :)

Sorry, Vik, the horse is in another castle.

"It's dangerous to go alone! Take this..."

Just wait - there's going to be a spy who's infiltrated our kingdom but he's riding Vik's horse which is what gives him away.

@Tegan

That's an excellent idea! Thanks!

Hey, howdy?

You guys have a couple of options now based on the current events:

Interrogate Kressle (after she wakes up),
Search for Radishes,
Explore around,
Go rogue,
Move to the next castle and hope the princess, I mean, the horse will be there.

So, what's your next step?

@DM: Kressle fell within 30 feet of Vik, so my 2 channels would have affected her.

@DM: Kressle fell within 30 feet of Vik, so my 2 channels would have affected her.

I did consider that you would drag Viklop away from the bandits or the bandits away from Viklop before burst healing/resurrecting everyone the area. :)

I prefer the option of interrogating Kressle, but don't think Rendyl is the optimum choice.

As far as near future, I would say try to find the radishes, then venture back to Oleg's to collect bounties, determine the fate of the bandits, and figure out what next.

Edit-Scratch that...just read that it could take 12 days. I vote we head back. This was a good day's work.

Djebelle Torr wrote:

@DM: Kressle fell within 30 feet of Vik, so my 2 channels would have affected her.

I did consider that you would drag Viklop away from the bandits or the bandits away from Viklop before burst healing/resurrecting everyone the area. :)

Nope, Djebelle wants as few deaths as possible. Her healing would put the bandits back into low single digit hit points, prone, and without their weapons - if they seriously want to carry on fighting from that disadvantage, having been defeated once already, that's their call - they won't last long; and they won't get a third chance. Sarenrae is patient, but she's not stupid :-)

@Djebelle.

Sure, consider Kressle a day away from waking up. 0 hit points currently.

For the others (potential half alive bandits, not the three you captured)... the pyre has been lit and they've already burned.

Hmmmm....just thought about how we're going to prove we offed or captured 12 bandits if we just burned them up. I guess we could shake the charred bones at them.

Hey about Hylaen...

I regret to inform that...

She is enjoying her trip so much that she's not having time to post. ;P

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Jokes aside, she sent me a text msg saying it's the last days of her trip, that's why things are scketchy on her side. Should be better once she gets back.

Damiel's out of pocket for a few days as well, I believe. I think we're waiting on input from Vik, then.

So...

We are kinda... stuck?

I can move the game forward, wake up Kressle, move you back to Oleg's and any other direction you want to take, but I need few pointers.

Your recent post left me with little to no room to join in, without heavy handing and deciding things for the party by myself.

Oh Noes, there's almost no hooks for the DM!!!

So, what’s our next step?

As a player, I'm willing to work with and navigate my character through just about anything. That being said, with Hylaen and Damiel out of pocket and Vik abstaining, it appears to come down to Rendyl, Tegan, and Djebelle. Rendyl is definitely for taking the remaining bandits back to Oleg's, Tegan is definitely against, so I'm willing to leave it to Djebelle to decide.

And to clarify again, there's really no wrong answer. Rendyl will sulk and glower and whatnot, but he'll get over it if the bandits end up dead. Definitely want to get back to Oleg's, though. We have a bandit bounty to collect, information to collect from Kressle, and an introduction to make with Kestin Garess, regardless of the company we have in tow when we arrive.

That's about 20 bandits captured/dead by our hands, so we probably have a leg up on the other charter.

Ok. Post incoming.

Yesterday at the Bronx Zoo was great. But at 70 years old, chasing an energetic, rambunctious 5 year old around for 7 hours was a lot. My wife and I are still tired, but I will have a post out later today.
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As my last post about schedule said, this Saturday thru Monday I am out of contact, as we are going to my wife's 50th high school reunion on Sunday. After today, next post will be Tuesday.

Nice to hear from you, Damiel! Glad that things went ok at the zoo. Hope things go well this weekend.

I don't care either way. It seems like the plan is to head back to Oleg's though. I won't be home for 8 or 9 hours but I might be able to post from my phone if I have time.

I'll move on things when I get home later today.

Rendyl will take 9 arrows from the bandits to replenish back to 20. I went ahead and assigned the earrings to Tegan based on her post. (I realize she was waiting to see if they were stolen or not, so it's not 100% certain).

Remember, if you're claiming anything, please mention it here or in an ooc post in the Gameplay thread to make my life a little easier. Thanks!

Thanks for managing the loot Rendyl.

Also, sorry for the delay. I thought I had posted before, but it seems I pressed 'Preview' and forgot to submit the post.

Oh yes, I need to look at the loot. Don't think I need anything except more provisions.

Tegan is against wearing stolen items so she'll add them to the pile of loot to sell.

I'm feeling positively evil this fine morning. How about you guys? :O

Also, here's a good theme music for April.

So very evil....I laughed out loud when I realized who it was!! I guess better her then me?? Good luck Tegan!

Oh I have missed some awesome roleplay there, guys. My contribution was short because I don't think there's more use dragging the subject now, I wished I could have joined in as it was being discussed, but I couldn't just let it pass ^^

My trip was great. I was in desperate need of a vacation! Now, back to normal schedule!

Welcome back, Hylaen. Haven't looked at the gameplay thread yet, so here goes! :)

Thanks! Not much changed while I was gone... except our our campaign name. Will we become horselords now? Can I relocate a skill point to ride? :)

LOL! That is wonderfully, beautifully, evil, DM. I love it.

Here I am, surrounded by work colleagues, sneak peeking at the forums and Djebelle makes me laugh out loud.
My face trying to explain to them why I was laughing, when I should have been working.

You evil person. :)

That last post... oh my.
And I must add, now that I'm off work and can acess videos, major kudos for the use of Alice Copper. Well done, sir.

Wife 50th reunion over, 42 of 177 graduates attended. First person we ran into was my wife best friend from the 3rd grade on till end of high school! Good times.

@Damiel

Welcome back.
Glad things went well on your side.

Yeah, the song is a good fit.

Wow Damiel, that's a great turnout!

@Ring

Svetlane's ring is a brass ring set with a single pearl.

OK, to-do list

Hand bandits over to Garess for judgment (done)

Interrogate Kressle

Go check up on Vicar, the bandit we captured last time, and see how he's doing

Re-stock up on supplies

Head off out again - the place is pretty crowded with the soldiers and the other group.

How much of this we need to RP vs hand-wave I leave to our DM.