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Cooking Up Trouble Lord Schmultzfeather's call for spectacular chefs to staff a new, exclusive restaurant certainly did not turn up void! Many applied, and the cream of the crop was chosen... Kehlysch, Dinte, Phillip, Ashley, Tessara, Vincent, Bahram, and Mimi are each approached by a servant of Lord Schmultzfeather, bearing a fancy note card with the following message: Note:
Congratulations! You are being offered a temporary position as a chef at Lord Schmultzfeather's amazing new restaurant. If your cooking and work ethic prove satisfactory, this will become a permanent position.
Please bring yourself (and any desired possessions), to Lord Schmultzfeather's tower on Tuesday at noon. You will be provided lodging and will be expected to reside at the tower on days when you are being trained and when the restaurant is open. On your days off (usually Mondays and Tuesdays) you may continue to reside at the tower, if desired, or you may return to any other local home or lodging. Generous payment will be given upon completion of each successful week of work. Inadequate cooking, laziness, or insubordination will result in termination ... of employment. See you at the tower!
---- Oishi, on the other hand, is approached by a servant bearing the following message, which the servant offers to read out loud, if Oishi so desires: Note:
Although your culinary creations were top-notch, Lord Schmultzfeather has already offered the eight available chef positions to other qualified individuals. However, in the event that one of the other new-hires should not accept the position or should prove unacceptable, you will quickly be offered that position, so please remain on standby for the time being. Thank you. ------- On Tuesday, those hired and desirous of accepting the prestigious position show up at Lord Schmultzfeather's recently-refurbished tower, adjacent to his villa. Upon showing the invitation note to the guards at the massive front doors, you are ushered into a large, posh waiting hall, the rounded walls hugged by long, curved couches laden with embroidered pillows, and an impressive chandelier hanging from the center of the ceiling. You are asked to wait here as the other new hires arrive. ---
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Only chosen game-players should make posts in this gameplay thread, and only using game aliases. (Although, others wishing to follow this campaign for fun may make a single "." post so that it shows up in your campaigns tab. Your character will be marked as previous (so that you don't show up in the party in the players tab), but you as a 'player' will be left as current so you can still follow along as desired.) Each player should post at least twice per week to stay active in the game. More posts are certainly welcome, though. Significant GM game updates will likely only come once or twice a week, but minor additions or clarifications may possibly be added during the time in between. A character may be "fired" out of the game at any time. Please do not take this personally if it happens. It is also possible for characters to be "re-hired". If you have anything that your character would say specifically to another character without letting the whole group hear, put it in a spoiler tag labeled something like [ spoiler = Jane Whispers to John ]"Let's make a soup and dump it on Jack's head!"[ / spoiler ] (only without the spaces). If you would like to roll certain uncalled-for skill checks, feel free to do so. Responses/information/results may come individually or may be reflected generally in the next game update. Standard text should describe your character's actions in third-person, present tense.
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Also, let's keep the game friendly, fun, and mostly PG. Thanks! :)
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COOKING UP TROUBLE Calling all chefs!
CHEF INTERVIEW. On your appointed day, after you have spent time in Lord Schmultzfeather's sizable and well-appointed kitchen preparing, you are ushered out past two armed guards, and into a fine hall. An elegant elderly couple sit behind a table, holding silver utensils and facing you. A servant gestures for you to place the three dishes you've brought onto the table in front of the gentleman and lady. As you do so, another servant casts a spell , squints at what you've brought, then nods in approval. The elderly gentleman speaks up in a raspy-yet-friendly voice, eagerly asking you the following questions, and nodding while listening to your answers. "Greetings! I am Lord Schmultzfeather, and this is Lady Schmultzfeather. Who are you, and why do you want to be a chef at my fine new restaurant?" "I see; I see. Which is your Consumable Specialty?" "Please describe the three Consumable Specialty samples you have brought as we taste them now..." "Interesting flavors! Now, explain exactly why I should hire you (and not someone else) for this elite position." "If you had to describe yourself in three words, what would they be?" "Finally, please indulge me a strange question: What makes you laugh the most?" "Thank you; thank you. You'll be called for if you are chosen. Next!"
So, here's a (hopefully) fun challenge to pass the waiting time: Imagine an adventure module using three of the Round 2 maps, and pitch it here in no more than five sentences. Go! :)
"You have been chosen." This thought echoes in your mind and spirit. The lovely woman appeared to you a second time in another dream. She said you had been deemed worthy of the mission and she asked you to answer the call to help. She said you and others were being called together to solve a mystery and to right a great wrong. Something about her made you want to help her and trust her. If you agreed to answer the call, she asked you to quickly wrap up your local affairs and travel to a town named Vigilant on the Eastern border road of the Kingdom of Theramark. She said to go to the Green Tree Inn on the Summer Solstice at noon to meet Eli and the others. "Get to know them. They will be your allies in this quest. Strange as some may seem, each of them bears a good heart and a noble spirit. And besides ... they're your extended family, in a sense. You might as well start off on the right foot with them. ... Stay at the Inn that night, and I will share more with you in another dream. ... and, thank you. You have no idea how much I appreciate you." You make your way from your homeland to Theramark and arrive in the town of Vigilant on the Summer Solstice. You find the Green Tree Inn and ask about meeting someone named Eli. You are quickly pointed to a thick curtain drawn across a large doorway to a side room. When you pull aside the curtain, you enter a room with a single very large oval table. Standing at the head of the table on the far side of the room is a tall man wearing a strange stone mask. He nods at you and motions for you to be seated. There are already several other people seated here in silence. Bowls of fruit, loaves of bread, and hunks of meat and cheese on platters fill the center of the table, along with pitchers of watered-down wine and mugs. Some of the seated people have begun munching or drinking, but no one speaks yet. People eye each other warily or curiously, but everyone seems to be waiting for something. Over the next few minutes, several more people arrive. Although everyone who arrives looks quite different from the others, everyone seems... distinctive in some way. It's hard to pin down precisely how. Finally, when no one else seems to be arriving, the man in the stone mask nods and speaks... POSTING REQUESTS:
Read Before Posting:
Only chosen game-players should post in this thread, and only using game aliases. Each player should post at least once per week to be considered active in the game. More posts are certainly welcome, though. Significant GM game updates will only come once a week on Saturdays, but minor additions or clarifications may possibly be added during the week. If you have anything your character would try to say or ask in the dream, put it in a spoiler tag labeled GM Dream. It may or may not get a response. Dreams are funny that way. If you have anything that your character would say specifically to another character without letting the whole group hear, put it in a spoiler tag labeled something like Jane Whispers to John. If you would like to roll certain skill checks, feel free to do so. Responses/information/results may come individually or may be reflected generally in the next game update. Standard text should describe your character's actions in third-person, present tense.
Bold text should be put in quotation marks and represent things your character says out loud.
Out of character text should be used for any brief side comments to the GM or to other players.
CAMPAIGN SETTING: The World:
The world is called "The World." Why would anyone bother calling it anything else? You have been summoned to leave your homeland and travel to a town named Vigilant on the Eastern border road of the Kingdom of Theramark (one of the Allied Kingdoms). On the Summer Solstice, you're supposed to go to the Green Tree Inn (run by Bob and Alice Treekeep) at noon to meet Eli.
Divinity, Fiends, and Spirits:
Pretty much everyone knows God created everything originally. There's more debate about just how active He/She is in the World now. Some believe the Almighty is ever-present. Some consider God much more distant. However, the power of Clerics, Paladins, and such definitely comes from somewhere, and it certainly seems to be God. Also, the existence of the Celestial Host is undeniable (by all but the most uneducated or isolated of peoples.) Powerful celestial entities (known by most mortals as Angels) are occasionally active in various places in the World, and these Angels certainly speak of God as a singular, all-powerful, entity of pure goodness who nevertheless supports the free will of mortals in the World. Mortal religion is mostly divided into Churches of various Saints. Certain extraordinary mortal, celestial, or mixed mortal/celestial individuals (Half-celestials, Aasimars, etc.) who were influential in the World gained Church followings. The theology, practices, and preferences of each of these Church groups reflect the life of the Saint they revere. Different Churches honoring different Saints coexist more-or-less peacefully, sometimes joining forces to combat evil cults and such. Fiends of various power levels also exist and sometimes do great damage in the World. It is supposed that the powers/spells/abilities of cultists and evil clerics (who are most definitely illegal pretty much everywhere law exists) come from the most powerful of these Fiendish entities. Finally, there also exist various nature spirits and such, who are occasionally worshiped by tribal peoples and other remote groups.
Languages: Well, everyone who's anyone in the Allied Kingdoms and most surrounding countries speaks Common. Some isolated peoples have their own tribal languages. So do weird secret societies like Druids. Those funny non-human races like elves and dwarves and such also have racial languages. Pests like goblins and kobolds have racial languages, too. The Celestial Host speaks Celestial, of course, and Fiends speak Fiendish. According to legend and those few who have survived meeting one, dragons supposedly speak Draconic, which is also the language of some strange ancient magical stuff.
Welcome! :) This thread exists primarily so that those who are playing the CELESTIAL SUMMONS game can chat (about the game and related topics) out-of-character. If you are playing a character in the game, please only post here using your game alias, so that we all get to know each other based on who is playing which game character. With such a large game, it would be too hard to learn everyone's game alias and other alias. It is assumed that posts in this thread are made out-of-character, so no [ ooc ] coding is required in this discussion thread. If you are a non-player who is following the game story for fun, feel free to add comments about the game here in discussion using whatever alias that you would like. Only chosen game-players should post over in the Gameplay thread when it opens, and definitely only using game aliases. As usual for the Paizo boards, let's keep it clean and friendly. :)
CELESTIAL SUMMONS - GM Angelina's Campaign You've always felt special, like you have some sort of a higher calling.
SPECIAL: Your character has celestial blood. Your character should either be an aasimar (of any class) or a celestial bloodline sorcerer (of any race) or have some other strong racial or inherent celestial connection (with approval). ADDITIONAL CHARACTER CREATION GUIDELINES:
IMPORTANT NOTE:
HOW TO START:
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