Oh, right and that reminds me, I still have a day left, but pm me DM titles and two people you thought roleplayed well. Not much is going to be happening in my last day.
Goes to the inn to order dinner and get a room for the night to meditate/pray for his daily spells.
Pays for his dinner and room and sits and contemplate the events that have played out while eating.
Aleumoth will be staying in the inn.
I was actually expecting you to wait till the party leaves and noone is watching you, kill the woman and steal the rest her gold and the rest of her valued possessions, where's your chaotic evilness? Too late now.
okay, so you are all at town hall, though imperius still has an action to take before that happens(the right action that noone has done yet could award him and the rest of you something special), and if you haven't already added 15 GP and subtracted 6 SP from your inventory, go ahead and do so.
Inside the building you see a number of NPCs with a variety of quests.
1. At the front desk is the information booth. The quest is to defeat the phantasm man in the house. (This quest is reserved from when I return to DMing as it will have more roleplay and give you lots more experience). In fact it is impossible to even go near it as a magical barrier surrounds the house that prevents anything from going with 5 feet of it.
2. In the corner, a woman is looking for an artifact found in the phantasm house. This part of the house is optional but it involves fighting monsters of a CR 12 and then actively looking for it. (also reserved)
3. At another corner you see two men chatting. They haven't had any in a while, so you are on a quest to get them some.
4. At a table, you see adventurers, 4 of them, and they are hunting a mountain troll.
5. At another table, you see 6 fishermen and you job is to brave the dangerous waters to catch dozens of big fish. This quest will also take you to another continent.
6. You guys also have the quest of following the whole to take out a whole ankheg nest.
The town hall has an upstairs, what is up there. That is for the Co-DM to decide, and he/she can also add quests. Whoever raises their hand first is our next DM. You can do anything with the story, all quests I have provided are yours to do with, expect for the reserved ones.
And don't forget the roleplaying and dming awards. Also I'm aware that you guys might be lacking exp as compared to me, so to fix that a little, a hill giant blocked the entrance to the town hall. No map needed there is isn't any room to be flanking, even if flying as the town hall has stairs to get to it. All can get within melee range, but one of you would have to be at a distance picking off with an arrow or in the air if in melee.
Init:
Imperius: 28
Nathaniel: 25
Edrec: 18
Schwartz: 16
Hill Giant: 4
so basically all of you will go before the giant.
Worth 3200 monster exp + 100 quest exp.
Nate leans back, sending Aurex forward with a roar.
----- Round 1 -----
Schwartz pulls out his sword as he charges the beast.
Imperius attempts to frighten the beast with a vision of the madness within.
Round 1
Aleumoth charges the hill giant.
--- Round 1---
"Looky at the the wall of fat in the door"Edrec smiles"Lets give it some exercise!"
Moves into range with the giant and smiles.
The AC of the giant is 19, because he is wearing leather instead of studded leather or whatever they wear.
44 damage to the giant, as edrec, the dragon, and aleumoth all hit causing the giant to bleed massively. He decides to run away like a coward, but surrenders his gold in hopes that you guys will let him live.
You all Gain 920 GP. Though if someone wants to make an attack of opportunity to kill him in cold blood, they have the right to, the only thing you will get from it is his leather armor and his great club by doing that, for those of you who are lawful good, you cannot do that. All gold weighs, so I suggest converting your gold over to platinum since we are in town. 10 GP =1 PP. Also for those of you who have copper on them, the town awards you enough copper to convert the copper you have into 1 silver, so basically remove any copper you have from your inventory and reward yourself 1 silver if you have copper.
If noone vulenteers to DM before Saturday ends, I will continue to DM on Sunday and go for another 8 days. I'm fine with either.
" Let it go its learned its lesson!" Edrec says laughing, "anyway its payed for any damages it might have caused" Pointing at the sack of gold it dropped.
Schwartz briefly considers killing the giant. But then he remembers that he hasn't been doing so well on the combat scene so far, so he'd likely miss and just anger the beast instead. And, possibly far more importantly, he has no use for either leather armor or a great club.
"What in earth was a hill giant doing in the middle of the town? And why would he act aggressively only to run away so quickly?" He shakes his head. Organics can be so confusing.
He then walks into the hall to see what there is to do in this town.
Aleumoth will reach forward and attempt to burn the giant with his malignant fires.
If that doesn't kill the giant then Aleumoth will send his cheetah to hunt it down.
Each.
Also, yeah, aleumoth that thing is gasping for breath after that hit, and the cheetah finishes it off as it only had 23 HP left, you get giant leather armor which you can't wield and a great club which you can't wield, so I assume you just sell it all for 20% of the value, you get all that gold.It is now Aluemoths turn to DM. Also, I won't be using my gargoyle, I have a surprise, a different character I made, I'll bring in that alias when Aleumoth DMs.
right now roleplaying awards are tied, so each would gain 750 if they stayed tied, so far I have 300 exp from DMing.
Also keep in mind gold is heavy, some people might want to convert their gold over to platinum while in town. if you read up on money weight it says 50 coins equal 1 pound. 10 copper to 1 silver, 10 silver to 1 gold, and 10 gold to 1 platinum.
Also people don't forget to add your 920 gold each from that battle and your 15 gold each from last battle of ankhegs, judging from peoples character sheets, it don't look like they did, unless they are keeping that stuff on pen and paper.
After your defeat of the giant tales go round of this new band of adventurers. Some rumors are good, others are bad. The mayor of this village comes down to meet you. He is a short, fat, and balding man. He wears a fine doublet covered with markings that denote his mayor-hood, and he wears a small gold amulet on his chest in the shape of a key. He rubs his hand together as he speaks to you.
"Thank-you brave adventurers for your heroism. We have been having many problems, but I believe that with you this town will become a much better place. Would you please join me in my office?"
"We appreciate the appreciation. Just glad we could help. I'd like some time ta sit down." He gives a smile and a curious look at the key. "What does that key around your neck mean?"
with the new title added, I'm level 6, but I'll wait on leveling him up till everyone else is level 6, because I'd rather not be to far ahead of everyone for fairness. I will treat him as level 5 until then.
Shrec materializes before your eyes and Aluemoth dissappears by divine intervention. Sure I'd love to join you.
Also I will secretly on the mayor to make sure this isn't a trick.
"Oh this?" As the mayor speaks he begins to fiddle with the key. "This is a symbol for the religious sect here in the city. We call ourselves the Key Masters, a dreadful name in my mind,
and we attempt to unlock some of the lost knowledge that can help all of the civilized races."
You believe that the mayor doesn't have a trick in his office for you.
Nate gives it a another curious look, then motions for the mayor to lead on.
Eyes the mayor and says "Appreciate the gesture sir"
Follows the others up to the mayors office.
Schwartz searches his mind to see what he knows about these "Key Masters".
Schwartz follows everybody up to the mayor's office. "I hope you have a suitable reward in mind for whatever help it is you're asking us for."
The mayor graciously nods and shows you all up to his office. It is a nice room filled with everything you would expect to find in an office. You see stacks of papers on a mahogany desk, and a comfortable looking chair sits behind that. A window in the back shows a clear view of the town, and its citizens going about their daily lives. Five chairs have been arranged in front of the desk.
"Please take a seat."
He waves his hands at the five chairs as he walks forward and sits down at his own chair behind the desk.
"Seeing as your time is valuable I will get straight to the point. My religion as you may know is focused on finding out and using magical knowledge. One of our brightest minds, a young elf by the name of Varkins, was exploring a recently discovered ruin when we lost all contact with the exploration group. I will hire you for one thousand gold, each, to go there and find out what happened to the exploration group."
You know that the Key Masters are a small religion that worship Nethys the god of magic and knowledge. They keep to themselves mostly, and they rarely seem to ever focus on the destruction aspect of Nethys. Their main focus seems to be discovering and using whatever magic they can.
1100 gold for me.
[dice=diplomacy]1+1d20 1100 gold for me.
"I accept this mission. Where are the ruins at?"
"What can you tell us about these ruins? Specifically, what were you hoping to find and what kind of dangers might we encounter?"
The mayor seems unmoved by Shrec's counter offer.
"I am already paying you as much as I can for this service anymore and I would be run out of town as a fool. The ruins are located three days to the east of town on foot. They were recently discovered by a miner who stumbled upon them while looking for ores. The only thing I know about these ruins are that the initial reports we received seemed to indicate that it was some sort of golem producing facility. Such facilities are known for their traps, and I know nothing about the state of anything else in the facility. That is why we sent the exploration team out first."
The mayor seems unmoved by Shrec's counter offer.
"I am already paying you as much as I can for this service anymore and I would be run out of town as a fool. The ruins are located three days to the east of town on foot. They were recently discovered by a miner who stumbled upon them while looking for ores. The only thing I know about these ruins are that the initial reports we received seemed to indicate that it was some sort of golem producing facility. Such facilities are known for their traps, and I know nothing about the state of anything else in the facility. That is why we sent the exploration team out first."
Ores? I suggest some of you might want to pick up some pickaxes while in this town before leaving, and yes I accept.
"Could you possibly loan us some horses, so we could get there faster?"
Schwartz nods slightly. "I am in then. I imagine my services will be useful if we do run into traps."
Imperius looks around the room, vaguely listening to the mayor. His mind was clearing, in this seemingly chaotic world of madness, his own mind was at home, the haze drawn back.
"Yes we should find the other that bears the power, magic I believe it is called here."
Schwartz glances at Imperius, as if trying to decide if he might want to "accidentally" fail to mention a trap that the other man is about to walk into.
While his head may need some repairs, he hasn't yet done anything to hinder me. And more targets for hostiles is always a good thing. I guess we can keep him around. So long as he doesn't do anything stupid to mess things up.
The mayor nods visibly happy that you have accepted.
"I would be glad to lend you some horses so that you can get there. I will be able to rest easy at night knowing that you are on the job."
Edrec smiles at the mayor and says in a stone faced way "Frankly mayor I'm interested as it might be some kind of information in it about my people," he continues "my folks are among the greatest of craftsman anywhere and golems are something we did very often"
Without wasting further time, Schwartz acquires directions, both to the stable where they might borrow some horses from and the ruins that they plan to head to.
Yeah, I head out immediately as well, I'm not doing any detours.
You are all able to get horses without any trouble, and you can continue on your way. The trip will take you around one and a half days on horse. You are able to travel quickly on the road and you find a nice place to set up camp. The night passes uneventfully and you are able to finally reach the area the mayor told you about. The ruins that stand before you are quite large and imposing with strange glyphs marking the entrance. The doorway seems to be carved out of the surrounding rock and shows a picture of several squat figures facing off against a much larger figure wielding two hammers.
Yeah, wanted to make sure I had a more durable one and with multiple purposes, also, how did we eat?
I will take first watch
I use perception to take a closer look at the pictures to find out what they might mean, though I might need a knowledge check which I have very few of.
Schwartz carefully studies the entrance to the ruins, searching for any further signs of what dangers (or treasures) might lie within. As he does so, he starts stretching every part of his body, limbering himself up for what lies ahead.
He felt...not excitement exactly--he never got excited--but an eagerness to test his skills against another challenge. It was something that happened rarely to him nowadays, ever since he started working more as a consultant rather than a thief. He had to admit, it was something he missed. Something so much more than just swinging weapons around.
Waking up for his turn at watch, Imperius relieves Scwartz, curiously studying the silver man.
"Who made you?" he asks in a quizzical tone. "Were you also made in a tube?"