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Hello guys I'll be retracting from this game. I have been very absent for quite a while and my interest in this game has waned. I don't think it's fair to you guys and the GM if I hang around just doing the bare minimum to stay involved. As such I think you will be better of with someone with a more vested interest in this game. I wish you all the best of luck and great fun with the continuation of your fight against the Orcs and later Giants of Belkzen and beyond.
Round 2 Once more trying to take down the wolf in front of her, Ragha lashes out again with her blade.
As the wolves approach Ragha draws a blade from the cane she'd been using to lean on. "What are these beasts doing here?" With that in hand she moves in and lashes at the wolves.
"So you apprentice took the blade that was then used to kill Rodrick. Sounds to me like she used you Sara."
"Easy for you to say. You're just a half-breed. They call you weak, you show them you're not and that's it. I'm the target of superstition. Some think I should have been sacrificed to the gods as a baby. In addition to all of that, I'm a woman. I need to be five times as strong as an orc man before he considers me his equal. Then he'll fear me, call me a she-demon. He'll kill my in my sleep or worse." Her voice is filled with anger and disgust, "The only reason I survived my first years is because my father could not have his child be killed. It would have hurt his station." "There is everything wrong with being different. It makes you an easy target."
A sigh escapes Ragha's lips as she hears Malthu's comment. "I was, yes. It's why I the adults were scared of me and the children hated me. I had hoped that the human lands would be better, but in Freedom Town my white skin made me a freak and here my tusks make me an orc."
Ragha nodded at Brinya's answers but was slightly shocked by Malthu's comment on executions, "Don't get ahead of yourself. First we need to find out who did it." She then turned back to Brinya, "Thank you for your time and your answers. I think we are off to the smithy now. You will hear from us when we know more. Thank you again."
"Kurst is convinced it isn't and while I don't know Rodrick all that well I agree it's unlikely. It's a matter of figuring out how and why." This was all rather odd to Ragha. She wasn't quite sure what she was supposed to feel, things like this didn't matter where she came from. "You say you don't know exactly what he was up to. Was he anxious about it? Did he mention anything about being scared of something? Did he have enemies?" She then fumbled around in her pack to pull out the hopeknife. "This is the blade that was used. Do you recognise it? Kurst said he didn't know if it was Rodrick and that you two might have exchanged blades."
"We are very sorry for your loss." Ragha tried her best to look solemn and sound compassionate, "We are here on behalf of his brother. He asked us to conduct the investigation into Rodrick's death while he tends to he duty as a brother. As such we have some questions for you, even though we know this must be very hard for you. We need information to figure out what happened." Ragha left a short break there so her words had some time to sink in, "Have you noticed anything strange about Rodrick recently? A change in his behaviour?"
Ragha took her time to talk to the people in the streets. With a little luck it would turn up something useful.
"We will ask her when we speak to her. Do you know where it is we can actually find Brunya?" Ragha is very careful with the blade handed to her. It is both the murder weapon and mostly likely a personal affair so it needed to be handled with care.
Ragha can be good cop, she'd just need someone else to function as her ears. She is skilled in Bluff, Diplomacy and Intimidate but Sense Motive is not her strong point.
"Do you have the knife? Those things are a personal affair, right? Is it his own?" Ragha still stood next to Cham with a hand on her shoulder but her eyes were fixed on Kurst. They'd need to figure out what was going on. For Rodrick, for Kurst, for Cham and now also for Bruinya and Omast.
GM: "What? How? What happened? How can he be dead?" Ragha was shocked by the news, he had seemed just fine the day before. Without much further thought she sat down on the floor next to Cham and placed a hand on the woman's shoulder.
Grath talk:
As all her companions from earlier that day depart Ragha looks at the two brothers. "If it is anything involving the Bearslayer tribe you know where to find me. Halgra comes to me for insight on them so I don't see why you can't. But I think Cham desires my presence so I'd better go. Keep safe you two." After giving the brothers one last smile Ragha leaves the table At the Ramblehouse Ragha is rather annoyed as she heads back downstairs to Cham, "Do you honestly expect my to bunk down with a bunch of men I hardly even know? I can't. I won't."
"Trunau has been treating me reasonably well. As well as can be expected by someone like me considering fighting Orcs is the lifework of many people here." She smiled. "At least I get peace and quiet here."
I'm in CEST (as in Central European Standard Time) As far as language is concerned, I'm ok with swearing if it serves a purpose. If your character swears all the time I'd say it's better to revert to tame, old-fashioned swearing (bloody this and bloody that). It gets the point across and isn't offensive to (most) modern readers.
As Ruby picks her out of the crowd Ragha curtsies, "It would be my honor." Her voice is a lot sweeter and softer than her appearance makes one expect. After the tug of war Ragha passes by Ruby to high five her. Afterwards she kneels and whispers in the girl's ear, "When you're a little older and you have trouble with boys you know where to find my. I can teach you a trick or two." She offers the girl a smile and a conspiratory wink before moving into the crowd.
Before the food and drinks Ragha moves to the table where Ruby and her family are seated. She speaks up, raising her voice, "Before we all dig in I'd say we honor young Ruby here with a song. I'll start but you're all free to join in any time you like." After that she starts in the most common birthday song of the area. Her singing voice is beautiful, if sometimes a little rough around the edges.
Thanks Malthu. As for the front line, ideally Ragha weaves in and out of it. Setting up flanks, hitting where it hurts and then moving out of reach again. She also starts with the False Flanker trick to help set up a flank. Ragha's connection with her father is complicated. On the one hand she's fond of him and owes him her life. On the other hand she knows he only protected her because she's his daughter, not because he actually cares for her. If it comes to it she'd just insist on a clean, swift kill. She feels she owes him that much. As for how long she's been in Trunau, I'd say 2 to 2.5 years. She got in by handing in her weapons and vowing she bore Trunau no ill will. The Charm Person on the guard might also have helped. I figured I'd clarify the choice for the Student of Giantkind campaign trait. It basically all comes from a single encounter with a specific giant when Ragha was a child. During the Flood Truce she once travelled to Wyvernsting with her mother (the one who raised her, not her biological mother) who originally was a member of the Murdered Child tribe. There Ragha met Delka the Thorn, a female taiga giant chieftain who allied herself with the Murdered Child tribe, and a personal friend of Ragha's (adoptive) grandmother. It was this encounter coupled with some later sightings of stone and fire giants that got her intrigued. As far as background skills go, I'll pick either Perform: Oratory or Perform: Sing as one of them. For the other I'm not sure. The Lore things that would work for her are all covered by Knowledge: Local, which she has. I might go Sleight of Hand for the other but I'm not sure yet.
Hello all I'll have to figure out what background skills would suit Ragha and I'll get to updating the character line as soon as I can. The reason they have Knowledge: Religion as an adventuring skill is that it identifies monsters and can point to their weaknesses. If it fits you background you could also take the Lore skill for a specific god, though that's rather redundant with Knowledge: Religion.
Another thing I noticed Rurik is that you have the Black Sun tribe harassing your village. The Black Sun however are purely mercenaries working for the highest, usually Orcish, bidder. That might mean there is someone more powerful who paid them to attack your people. Just an idea. On the shared background, that can work just fine. I do note that Ragha's father has nothing to do with the Defiled Corpse tribe. He was the chief of the Broken Spine tribe, in which Ragha was born, and now is the chief of the small Bearslayer tribe. The latter has been active for about 3 years, assuming we use the Golarion date the AP was released.
I don't see a potential for prolonged inter-party war: Ragha has no love for the Broken Spine tribe and while she has some love for her bastard she fully realises he's a nasty piece of work. There is a reason she has been providing Helgra with information about her father.
How long ago was the Orc raid that got Roosevelt into Trunau? If it was no more than 3 years ago it could be the Bearslayer tribe behind it. This would bring Roosevelt, Rormar and Ragha together via a single orc: Kroghut. Ragha is not devoted to a single god by the way, which is just fine as she's not a divine caster. She'll say her prayers to whichever divinity she thinks most suited for the problem at hand. She does not shy away from evil beings when it comes to this, with the Orcish goddess Dretha being the most common of these evil gods (in short, she's the goddess of orc women, birth, fertility and death). We have a lot of R-names. Even Malthu has a big R in there.
As Coras wakes up sees the situation unfolding before him he lets out a choice selection of curses in Tengu. Press ganged. It happened regularly to those of his kind but he never expected he'd be next. He got up, looking the man who was in charge strait in the eye, "Needed a jinxeater? You could have just asked."
A follower of Zon-Kuthon would indeed be a Kuthite
So so far we have a Calistrian, a Chaldiran, two Gozrens, a Kuthite and a cultist of Ylimancha and we have a cultist of Ragathiel and an unknown on the way. So unless the Goblin is a follower of Besmara we are fresh out of followers of the pirate queen. Strange twist for this game.
Coras reporting in |
