What is the significance of the mast in Kigante's trophy room. It is marked T...M...AUT. What am I missing here.
Thanks
What is the significance of the mast in Kigante's trophy room. It is marked T...M...AUT. What am I missing here.
Thanks
Sorry. A little more detail here. This is in the Bullywug Gambit (issue 140). Room K8 in Kraken Cove. Kigante Valeros has a room dedicated to various trophies, esp ones taken from plundered ships. One of the trophies is a mast with the above mentioned markings. It just seemed like it has greater significance, given the detailed description. I am betting it refers to a ship found in an old module. Barring that maybe the author put it in there as a personal easter egg.
Either way I was hoping the paizo boards knew what the deal was.
When I first read that part, I had the same thought but I had forgotten about it. So I did a quick search for words that end in "aut" and there aren't that many. My guess at the most likely would be words that end in 'naut' like Cosmonaut, Astronaut and my choice, Juggernaut.
Does that ring any bells? Anyone? Bueller?
Cheers!
When I first read that part, I had the same thought but I had forgotten about it. So I did a quick search for words that end in "aut" and there aren't that many. My guess at the most likely would be words that end in 'naut' like Cosmonaut, Astronaut and my choice, Juggernaut.
I keep seeing Tiamat. But obviuosly that isn't right. Unless thats how they spelled Tiamat in 'ye olde commonne' language.
"Looke Venger, verily yon Cavaliere useth his bulwarke oft majik force to fend offe Timaut's foule spittleth." Or somethin.
Anyone? Bueller?
stupid movie, sigh
I was wondering about some of the other trophies in BG and kept thinking I should post here about them.
I recognized the 'mushroom pin' in Vandeboren manor from the D1-3 drow modules (descent into the depths? etc.) I do not know what they all are right now, but I think it would be cool to get the references. None of my players were around then-or at least not gaming back then--but I appreciate the references.
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None of my players were around then-or at least not gaming back then--but I appreciate the references.
hey hey - just because we weren't around doesn't mean that we don appreciate the older modules. I have a bunch of the 1 ed modules that i got off my uncle, which are what got me into the game in the first place - being board at my grandparent's house reading 1st edition modules and old dragon magazines ...
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I just gave my PCs a list of these "easter eggs" - they were targets for a halfling thief hired by rival Seekers, who impersonated a Witchwarden that had cause to be at the party's first meeting with Lavinia, giving them an opportunity to uncover him and trigger a combat to break up the conversation with her & impress her with their prowess. Since they're bound to look into this further, I'm glad to find this thread! Here are some of the ones I recognize:
- bookmark with holes and bulges: security card from AD&D Expedition to Barrier Peaks
- silver statue of Earth Dragon: Chris Pramas introduced this demigod in Slavers! (2E) as a backstory to the AD&D A1-4 Slavers series.
- green worm in alchemical preservatives: Age of Worms
- Carcerian Sign tattoo: Shackled City
- tasloi head in jar: monster first introduced in AD&D I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City
Anyone? Bueller?
stupid movie, sigh
Perhaps, but you did *recognize* it, yes?
Cheers!
Perhaps, but you did *recognize* it, yes?Cheers!
I’ve never actually seen the movie, but it’s the bane of my existence (see my login name for details).
Easter Eggs = fun stuff. Went back and dug up the old dungeon adventure just to see what happened with the ship.
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Here's the list I gave my players, along with a best guess as to what it is. Some things, like the mast of the Tammeraut, aren't on here because I figured they weren't likely to be sought by a thief, even one who's hired by a Seeker to nab curios.
- a gem-studded silver statuette, perhaps a ceremonial or religious icon, in the stylized form of a dragon with a rocky hide (Earth Dragon from Slavers and AD&D A1-4)
- an odd golden likeness of half of a cow's head with a ruby eye (???)
- an old musty diary written in archaic Suel, with the initials "L. of G." burned into the cover (???)
- a strange card of flexible gray material with bumps and holes along its surface is stuck into the diary as a bookmark (AD&D S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks)
- a series of specimens: a shrunken head of a simian humanoid in a jar (tasloi from AD&D I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City)
- a bulbous green worm floating in a vial of alchemical preservatives (Kyuss worm from Age of Worms)
- a strange one-eyed bat-like thing whose eerily-glowing body is mounted on a board (???)
- a piece of stretched leathery skin bearing a tattoo of an eye with an arrow crossed over it (Shackled City)
- a ruby brooch in the shape of a bat (Tamoachan???)
- a small silver offering bowl filled with dates, with a crescent-shaped base made of bone (AD&D I3-5/Desert of Desolation???)
- a collection of signet pins of various colors and crests: a mushroom, a whip, and a pair of spiders (AD&D D1-3/Q1 series, Queen of Spiders
I am running a highly modified version of the STAP with a number of digressions in a homebrew. In fact, I started with Bullywug's Gambit, but anyway, I took the opportunity of Kilgante's trophies to replace them with "easter eggs" from my own past campaigns in that setting - some of which happened to be items from old well-known modules.
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- a strange one-eyed bat-like thing whose eerily-glowing body is mounted on a board
Annoyingly I can't remember the name of the creature but this sounds like one of the iconic Gamma World beasts well known for shooting a ray of radiation from its eye
I'd say its an Eyewing, a creature native to the Abyss, from 2nd Edition ... might have originally been a Dragonlance monster? - but I'm pretty sure it was in the later 2E Monstrous Compendium.
