Well, after thinking about it, I believe we should call this game dead. As much as I don't want to, it just doesn't seem to be in the cards for any of us.
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Happy New Year.
I was just going to call for a break from the 20th to the new year so we want to constantly check on this game.
“I understand thy wish to respect thy fallen comrades, however, Mitre understands the needs of adventurers.” Balin knows adventures well. His eyes a sorrowful understanding.
The contrast between the surrounding estates and the remains of the Victocora estate is as sharp as the grass and the scorched-earth surrounding the ash. Stone and wooden beams marked by fire sit atop large piles of soot, waiting to be taken by the first poor scavengers to set foot in the Greens.
Is the lying done? Are we going to combat?
Well, Khor, I’m sorry for taking your time, but I do appreciate the honesty. And for posting, as I said I can try to make a consistent schedule out of a post once a day rule, but I will inevitably fail. It can also create some confusion on what consists of a day considering different time zones. If I do somehow managed to get to a point where I can post every day. I don't want to become the person who gets on everyone's case about “why they aren't posting?” We're here to have a good time, and I know being that is not a good time for anyone.
It's super late and I need to get to bed so I'll give the short version. I'm hesitant to give a post once a day requirements because it's a commitment that I myself have not lived up to in the past, and is even worse due to things like the rebellion phase. But if everyone else agrees to make that attempt then I will as well.
“You left this note on a fallen ally?” Sir Balin asks, although it is clear that he is not believing the lie. “In the previous room? Then go get it and bring it here forthwith.”
“Perhaps. We were ambushed by a witch and her brigands. Ye said a note to led thy here. Show it to me.”
“I recognized thy nature, aasimar.” Sir Balin does not even look in Wade’s direction.
It appears that the man is willing to accept Lazarus’ pleasant greeting as he puts his sword away... he draws it out, pommel striking his chin. “I shall say once more; speak and meet judgment. What is thy purpose here?” This man is clearly not a kid who can be convinced that the man who was hunting him down isn't a bad guy. He is clearly a trained knight with years of experience. That said, he is clearly looking at Anastasius and Casius calculatingly.
Sorry, Johnny, I misread that. But no, there wasn’t.
The scrolls in the coffer are a scroll of cure moderate wounds, a scroll of daylight, a scroll of remove blindness/deafness, and a scroll of remove disease. The potions include four potions of lesser restoration. There does not appear to be anyone around other than the occasional passerby.
GM:
Casius:
He is Sir Balin, a captured Knight of The Alerion Order and is personally famous for hunting followers of Asmodeus.
The door opens to a square room with the same dimensions as every other. One oil lamp lights the room from the ceiling. In the center of the room, a single man kneels in prayer, speaking vows and praise to Mitre. He wears around his neck a sunburst of silver and sapphire—a holy symbol of Mitra.
He finishes his prayers and stands, drawing his sword. “Thou have finally come to confront me. Speak thy reason for mine own confining so I may deliver upon thee meet judgment.” His voice is of a zealot, a voice that has always made evil blood boil.
Happy Halloween to all it concerns!
Happy Halloween to all it concerns!
“I... ” Timeon is breathing heavily, sweating, his eyes dilated. Standing over the bodies of the fallen, he swallows, takes in a breath, and reverses his grip on his sword, touching the tip to the ground. “Fare thee well.” Turning to you, he nods and heads back into the passage.
This door is wooden and reinforced with iron bands. It is locked with a good lock. It bears an inscription: “Serve thy master well and be rewarded.” Hanging beside the door on a peg is a heavy iron key.
Once you’re away from the sinkhole you can open the coffer to find four scrolls and seven potions. Three of the potions you recognized as potions of cure light wounds.
GM:
Adelina, make a DC 15 Reflex saving throw. If you fail takes 3D6 damage from shifting rubble falling on you. Johnny, you an iron coffer. Scorched and scratched but intact.
The draugr have no treasure. Their rotted waterlogged armor and rusted, barnacle encrusted great axes hold little value.
The Silver Star is now a sinkhole filled with scorched rubble—the building collapsed into the chambers below when it burned.
It’s easy to understand why the Night of Ashes is believed to be a series of targeted attacks rather than tragic accidents. The Silver Star was not only owned by Shensen (herself an outspoken critic of Thrune), but that chambers below the music store served as a shrine to Sarenrae. And the Thrashing Badger was reputed to be a favorite watering hole for the rebellious cult of Milani. The Thrashing Badger’s ruins are almost entirely gone; the building burned through the boardwalk and collapsed into the water below. A search of the submerged ruins would require sea diving knowledge or water breathing magic.
Laria rubs her chin thoughtfully. “I don’t know if you’ll find anything valuable, probably destroyed in the fires, but you might learn something. If nothing else it’s important to Rexus.” During the Night of Ashes, three buildings mysteriously burned to the ground. No one’s saying it out loud, but the general consensus is that these three buildings (and many of their occupants) were specifically targeted by Barzillai Thrune as dens of sedition. The three ruins are the Victocora estate, the Thrashing Badger tavern, and a music store called the Silver Star.
GM:
Draugr 4 HP 1/19
Timeon HP 1/5
It turns its attention to Anastasius and begins to walk and slips on the grease.
GM:
Draugr 4 HP 8/19
Timeon HP 1/5
Anastasius, Lazarus, and Timeon all failed to hit the creature where Casius succeeds, to his own detriment as its the undead swings its ax at him.
First of Rova, first Oathday. It is the first day of the first month of Fall, the Summer heat has not died down, and tonight Somal begins a new phase. Prophets, Harolds, and Doomsayers are out in force, all speaking of swearing oaths to the moon or the Dark Tapestry, lest you invite disaster upon thyself. The Wasp Nest (as Nan named for the statue of Calistria) has been cleaned and opened even more than when you found it. All that occupies the space now is two tables, a dozen chairs, several empty crates, and three crates with the assorted copper, silver, and gold pieces that make up the treasury. The past month has been activist with everyone working to support the silver Ravens... Mostly. Johnny and Khor have clearly taken no interest in the logistics of running an organization, Although Khor’s presence does lead to your initial group of supporters due to their misbelief on his actions during the park protest. Adelina and Imperia plan and layout the groundwork for the Silver Ravens going forward. The two also get the pleasure of a personal meeting with Imperia’s father, Count Geoff Tanessen. He makes it clear that he does not know what they are doing with the Long Roads Coffeehouse and does not care, so long as it does not tarnish the Tanessen family or endanger the city. Rexus has been working to decode the documents left by the old Silver Ravens, and Laria has been keeping her ear open for supporters and rumors around the Kintargo. “I feel sorry for those yapping loons,” Laria says this morning, “So desperate—or crazy—to believe their own nonsense, but I did hear some interesting news. Apparently the dottari have stopped patrolling the areas burned down during the Night of Ashes. You should go check those places out.”
Congratulations and good luck with the baby. Lazarus, can you please take your turn?
GM:
Draugr 4 HP 8/19
Timeon HP 1/5
Not Timeon, nor Lazarus, nor Casius are able to hurt the thing. Anastasius’ ray does affect it.
• The Silver Ravens maintained their main headquarters in and below the Kintargo Opera House; unfortunately, no information in the documents indicates any other safe houses the group may have maintained. Upkeep phase
Increase Rank: Twenty supporters the Silver Ravens Rebellion goes to Rank four. Take your PC boons. Activity phase
Event phase
I’ve been keeping a record in Campaign Info.
• The woman who founded the Silver Ravens was a mysterious elf known only as “Jackdaw,” a figure who, before the advent of the Age of Lost Omens, built herself into a sort of Kintargan folk hero who fought for the rights of the city’s downtrodden. • Marketplace Boom: Potion of Bull's Strength (300 gp) Wand of Invisibility (21 of 50 charges) (1890 gp) Divine Scroll (Insect Plague (1125 gp)) Upkeep phase
Activity phase
Event phase
GM:
Draugr 4 HP 13/19
Timeon HP 1/5 The draugr in front of Timeon in front fo stands still before falling to two separate pieces. The acid flask Casius threw, and the ray Anastasius fired, both miss. However, the draugr that got to its feet is hit instead. Lazarus, seeing the opportunity, decapitates it.
Timeon takes deep breaths and yells out, “Died abomination!”
He cannot reach the draugr as he avoids stepping on the grease.
So you just want the next two Rebellion actions to be money-making and recruiting? Also with 14 supporters, you go up one rebellion rank, so you get your first PC Boone.
Casius throws another flask, which seems a bit more potent than his previous flasks. Anastasius fires a ray of white light and misses completely. Timeon charges the undead thing with a battle cry to Mitre and cleeves the barnacle monster from shoulder to hit. GM:
Draugr 1 HP 14/19
Draugr 2 HP 5/19 Draugr 4 HP 14/19 Timeon HP 1/5
A Dreger manages to stand on the grease... Again.
• Many of the Silver Ravens were adventurers or worshipers of Milani. Jackdaw, a swashbuckler, was the most powerful and influential of them all, but others who rose to particular prominence among the Silver Ravens were Amyreid (a female half-elf cleric of Milani), Ba (a male halfling enchanter), Kyda (a female human rogue/bard), and Brakisi (a male human urban ranger). Upkeep phase
Activity phase
Event phase
It does seem weird. Sadly, I have no answers, only speculation.
Skip the upkeep phase during the very first week. If anyone wants to deposit or withdraw money, please tell me. The rebellion system is already easy enough to break by mid-max the system.
Lazarus distracts the barnacle-encrusted corpse long enough for Timeon to sidestep it and cut it into. Timeon looks down at the now truly dead thing taking deep, shaky breaths, clearly amazed at what he has done. GM:
Draugr 1 HP 17/19
Draugr 2 HP 8/19 Draugr 4 HP 17/19 Timeon HP 1/5
The one that fell over stands up, and the two that got up fall.
You haven’t actually been presented with the Pact of Thorns yet, I decided to push that back since we need to recruit new players.
Rexus will continue to decode the Silver Raven documents whenever he can and will keep everyone informed on his progress. • The Silver Ravens were established in 4606 ar in the wake of the chaos that swept over Cheliax after Aroden’s death to help protect the city of Kintargo from oppression. Upkeep phase
Activity phase
Event phase
Okay, so I got in contact with Wade and he said he got busy for a month and then got anxious about just reappearing after not posting. I told him it was fine that he hadn’t posted in a month and that I’m not going to criticize someone for being busy and lack of posting. He says he would be interested in rejoining if everyone else was okay with it but that he understood if we said no. I also explained to him that Wade had died and offered him the same undeath deal, or just to rewrite events so that he didn’t die.
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