Yeah sure. Will see what I can come up with whilst free.
Nothing in particular, he just wants to re-establish Tsar to its former glory as a temple-city to Orcus.
Smite evil!
lmfao
Anyway, yes it might have come up in the past, but Vincent only really cares about making his family proud, bringing honor and prestiege to the family and finding a wife of his choosing if so.
The way I see it, his family has fallen out of favour with many of the noble families, however if he were to bring back treasure or tales of mighty heroics he might bring back some great honor and therefore, many more noble families would be interested in marrying off their daughters to him. Perhaps even families that are distant cousins of a king or regent of somekind.
Really it's all selfishness, but at the same time he wouldn't let evil run rampent across the world and sooner stick a blade in a demon's chest than make a deal with it.
The whole scandle is that his grandmother gave birth whilst out of wedlock. The person she was with could never be found so there were many theories and insults suggesting that this man never exsisted and it was probably some peasant or worse. Fact was the man was a dragon and the family, which already had a strong link with magic, become stronger when his father became a wizard and managed to out duel many other family's best spell casters, however that still wasn't enough to rub the shame off the family, but it has improved their standing somewhat.
Where his father took the abuse of other families, Vincent didn't and often out witted others with his words and tricked them with his silver tongue for talk. After learning some noble families use to be great heroes he decided to set out to become one himself. He's a noble, how hard could it possibly be? Everyone knows their place and monsters know to fall before his blade and with this group, he has learnt that monsters are too stupid to care about nobility and bloodlines, so he makes sure to help lead the group in couragues battles, finding that he had a natural talent to help goat people into combat.
that's what I have so far. Just off the top of my head.
Lol, well that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I could flesh it all out a bit more. Failing on a surname I just typed some names in draconic translator to get the name.
"Nobleman's discount"?
Oh dear.
Fortunately he has enough + on those god awful rolls to at least avoid making the Usurer hostile.
Just want to record that I'm sorting through garbage or on my way to the tavern at the moment.
You can narrate yourself back into the tavern when you are ready, not going to pull a random camp encounter on you just yet ;).
I was more thinking about the Usurer's cleave if Vincent keeps making diplomacy rolls.
This noble is based on the nobles of Jim's campaign somewhat, also I think most "upper class" are generally a%&@**%s in one way or another.
Was afraid about the roll, but luckily I just made it so I didn't anger him.
I made Marcus a noble as well although seemingly the opposite of Vincent in several ways which should be interesting.
For the IC discussion I'm working off the map if anyone hasn't looked at it yet. Looks like the Desolation itself is divided into four quadrants divided by a n-s and e-w road. It doesn't have a scale but presumably we have a vague idea of how big it is DM? At least in the sense of how many hours/days it would take to traverse a quadrant.
The big Orcus looking thing on the city itself kind of freaks me out. I have a total meta urge not to try and wander in there immediately but I think our characters would be cautious as well. Its a fortress after all whether or not it has an evil army attached.
All the quadrant descriptions: The Dead Fields, Ashen Wastes, Chaos Rift, Boiling Land sound equally unpleasant to me and presumably our characters.
DM on the website I seem to have lost access to lore entries I had before? Can no longer see any of the history stuff.
Scratch the last sorry was looking in the wrong place.
All look bad and a hillgiant, even though not known to be mentally stable, still turning insane makes me wonder what kind of cthulhuian horrors he must've escaped from to have driven him mad. All kinds of questions really, but Vincent hopes there's tresures to aquire where they're going. Maybe something big with diamonds to bring back home or some sort of artifact of great significance.
Something with an acid attack presumably. I had vaguely hoped we could take Gurg alive but even without his club he was doing too much damage for that.
As for treasure, were presumably going to end up spending hundreds of thousands of gp worth of loot to acquire items to acquire more loot in order to complete our quest and then incidentally get money sometime around what? Level 20 :) Hopefully Vincent is Ok with this.
I am sorry... I can't help myself... link :)
Well I'd glady take Hannibal. You are clearly BA. Vincent can be Face (with optional references to him being a lord). The others can duke it out for Murdoch.
I'm going to be out of town for the next 3-4 days. My internet access will be sporadic at best, but I'll try to check in if possible.
Thanks for the notice :).
Once I get responses for my OOC questions ill update late tonight, narrating a few hours at once which will bring you to late afternoon.
Trying to nudge you a little bit but do remember its a sandbox, Marcus' pro-active stance is definitely the way to go.
Going to sunny Brighton tonight back tomorrow.
Also I assume you can't take a 10 on diplomacy...which is a shame as all my rolls suck so far.
Unless DM has ruled on this before don't see why you can't. Your not distracted or in combat. My two cents at least its generally taking 20 that is prohibited per skill.
But note above DM was talking about doing the checks anyway.
I still strongly recommend you appoint a lorekeeper. I won't be adding everything to the wiki, I just don't have the time.
I've agreed to be lorekeeper. Once we've learnt everything we're going to today I'll compile.
Its been a bit of a mad week again. Updating tonight :).
Like we wanna cheer when the Drow Lich King appears ...
... shakes and quivers in fear .... LOL
Drow lich king? You think too small. A Drow Dread Lich Warlord.
DM assume the earlier detect magic/evil scan got nothing more than the stone and the gnome?
Sorry for the extended absence everyone. I made it back from my trip with a dislocated rib and a messed up back. Needless to say, sitting in front of a computer for very long is kind of uncomfortable (actually, everything right now is kind of uncomfortable). But I'm working to catch up.
I wasn't soliciting applause... just commenting that the posting was slow in the IC thread. :) (There was 24+ hours between those 2 posts. :P )
I know, but felt a jest coming on .... :)
Hope you feel better soon Max, with or without the aid of pain relieving drugs, preferably without I guess.
Will hopefully post tomorrow.
Hope you feel better soon Max. What were you doing for your vacation that you got so banged up?
Thanks! I'm afraid my injuries aren't due to anything fun, but from struggling to adequately secure my young daughter's child-safety seat in her grandmother's tiny car. Getting old sucks. But the doctor seems to have gotten me on the road to recovery - at least it's easier to breathe without sharp pain now.
Thanks, Lod OKOyA! Yeah, turning 45 didn't feel as tough as 40, but the aches and pains seem to be taking longer to heal than they used to. Oh well, at least we're still here to feel the aches and pains!
By the way: Happy Early Birthday!
Wait til you reach the next decade ... 56 now and counting ... seem to have got some gall stones from somewhere ... ho hum!!
And I understand about backs and things too, take it easy and don't rush back let it heal properly.
But I did go see Halestorm a couple of Saturdays ago so life can't be all bad ... yeah!!!!!
If Marcus sounds a bit neutral its because I'm not really sure what the night plan is apart from walking around scanning for evil. Are we setting up at the Pounders camp and patrolling every few hours?
That may have been one of the reasons ;).
Remember detect evil is as the spell; people can recognise it :).
Wait til you reach the next decade ... 56 now and counting ... seem to have got some gall stones from somewhere ... ho hum!!
And I understand about backs and things too, take it easy and don't rush back let it heal properly.
Thanks Deevor! And sorry to hear about the gall stones - hope everything works out!
I get the distinct impression that if we use detect evil a lot here... we are going to find a lot of evil here. ;)
This is why Alex warned that playing a paladin would be difficult in this campaign. We are going to have to let a lot of evil slide... and just concentrate on the Evil. :)
To be honest my post was intended more as "So exactly what are we doing?".
Max...sure it will, just part of the mind still young(ish) and wants to do the things its always done, but the body sometimes has other ideas .... its life.
So still not 100% sure on this evening's plan once we wrap these interactions up. Presumably getting dark by then. The giant's campsite seemed like a bit of a dump, is the idea to claim it at least for tonight? Then stay there or move to the boarding house? "Taking over" the embassy didn't seem like a bad idea but I got the impression it was like a single room deal.
Remaining people I can think of to talk to:
- tomorrow, the leader of the other mercenary group (maybe under the guise of hiring them?);
- tomorrow, the rangers (maybe under the guise or actual plan of hiring them?);
- a few more buildings on the map to check out (we seem to have the emporium for general gear, death priest for divine spellcasting and the Usurer for weapons and armour: would be helpful to determine anyone else selling things);
- we didn't actually talk to the drunken elf who I think was the livery owner (presumably he sold horses to the caravan?);
- Simon (and Sammar) are the only nice people we've run into, do we think there is anything more we can get out of him?;
- the Usurer seems pretty cluey (does he know more about the mysterious deaths than he lets on);
- the corpse taker clears up all of the dead bodies (maybe he has a clue, maybe he hurries them along?);
- Kiri can commune once a week for some divine guidance (I'd like to hold off on that until we have really good questions to ask but perhaps someone else can think of one).
Not within our current abilities but presumably we could wrangle a speak with dead / scroll from the hobgoblin to question the giant? Maybe more eligible targets in the corpse takers custody?
That all sounds good to me.
The embassy is definitely a single room deal.